Data Scientist Lead

RB Global Inc.; Westchester (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

RB Global Inc. in the United States is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to guide a growing analytics team and deliver scalable ML and analytics solutions across the organization.

The role requires partnering with IT, executive, and product teams to integrate these efforts into enterprise-scale systems and to translate business needs into actionable analytics initiatives. You will manage and mentor data scientists, drive project prioritization with business stakeholders, and communicate the methods

Qualifications

• 10 years of demonstrated business impact through conception, delivery and scaling of ML and analytics.
• 2+ years managing and mentoring data scientists and analysts
• 2 years of consulting or leadership experience as a data scientist
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Experience working on an Agile development team

Responsibilities

• Leverage data science, data engineering and statistics best practices to build applicable solutions.
• Complete advanced analysis of customer and business data.
• Nurture solutions through problem, ideation, data sourcing, experimentation, development, deployment and monitoring.
• Manage and mentor data scientists with technical oversight to ensure quality and performance.
• Team management and oversight
• Model development, deployment and evaluation
• Meeting with and advising stakeholders
• Address operational challenges with business units
• Sourcing, cleaning and understanding data in collaboration with the data management group
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Team leadership & mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Agile development

Attention to detail

English proficiency

Job description

Description

The Lead Data Scientist will play a key role in advancing the analytics and data science capacity of the organization. She/he will hire and manage a team of data scientists who deliver scalable machine learning and advanced analytics solutions across the organization. The new hire will need to work closely with IT, executive, and product teams to integrate these into enterprise-scale solutions. The Lead will work with business stakeholders to ideate and prioritize team initiatives while communicating the methods and impact of the methods.

Qualifications

• 10 years of demonstrated business impact through the conception, delivery, and scaling of machine learning and other analytic approaches, including machine learning and big data.
• 2+ years managing and mentoring other data scientists and analysts
• 2 years of consulting or leadership experience as a data scientist
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Experience working on an Agile development team

Responsibilities

• Leverage a deep knowledge of data science, data engineering and statistics best practices to ensure that the most applicable solutions are developed.
• Complete advanced analysis of the company’s customer and business data, data.
• Nurture solutions through the whole chain (problem, ideation, data sourcing, experimentation, development, deployment, monitoring).
• Manage and mentor data scientists with in-depth technical oversight to foster their development and a positive, learning team environment while ensuring all work meets the expected level of quality and performance.
• Team management and oversight
• Model Development, deployment and evaluation
• Meeting with and advising stakeholders
• Solving operational challenges with business units which are depended upon
• Sourcing, cleaning and understanding data in collaboration with the data management group
• Perform other duties as assigned

EEO Information

Ritchie Bros. is an equal opportunity employer and ensures nondiscrimination in all activities in accordance with all applicable laws. This position is open to all qualified applicants who are legally entitled to work in the country in which this job is located. Candidate selection is made by Talent Acquisition.