Lead Data Scientist: AI Strategy & Analytics Leader

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to guide data science initiatives that increase profitability, efficiency, and customer experience in the Atlanta area. You will help shape the analytics infrastructure, mentor teams, and own a library of reusable algorithms to scale impact across business units.

You will lead large, complex projects, collaborate with IT and business partners, and push for best practices in prescriptive modeling like optimization, computer vision, and NLP.

Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Demonstrated expertise in predictive modeling, data mining and data analysis
• Demonstrated expertise utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems
• 10+ years of experience in business intelligence and analytics

Responsibilities

• 30% Solution Development - Utilize expertise when designing and developing algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights; Make appropriate selection, utilization and interpretation of advanced analytics methodologies; Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical leaders and business customers/partners; Clearly communicate impacts of recommendations to drive alignment and appropriate implementation
• 25% Project Management & Team Support - Lead and manage large and complex projects and teams; Provide direction on prioritization of work and ensure quality of work; Provide mentoring and coaching to more junior roles to support their technical competencies; Collaborate with managers and team in the distribution of workload and resources; Support recruiting and hiring efforts for the team; Serve as a technical subject matter expert (SME) for one or more data science methods, both predictive and prescriptive; Lead data science communities across several business units
• 20% Business Collaboration - Leverage extensive business knowledge into solution approach; Effectively develop trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams; Provide technical education on advanced analytics to data science community; Partner with IT to understand potential for new tools and ways to maintain technical agility for data science; Actively seek out new business opportunities to leverage data science as a competitive advantage
• 25% Technical Exploration & Development - Seek further knowledge on key developments within data science by attending conferences and publishing papers; Participate in the continuous improvement of data science and analytics by developing replicable solutions (for example, codified data products, project documentation, process flowcharts) to ensure solutions are leveraged for future projects; Define best practices and develop clear vision for data analysis and model productionalization; Ownership of library of reusable algorithms for future use, ensure developed code/models are documented; Develop mastery in one or more prescriptive modeling techniques, like optimization, computer vision, recommendation, search or NLP

Skills

Predictive modeling

Data mining

Data analysis

Statistical techniques

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

PhD in a quantitative field

10+ years of experience in BI/Analytics

Tools

Python

SQL

Google BigQuery

Tableau

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Home Depot is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to guide data science initiatives that increase profitability, efficiency, and customer experience in the Atlanta area. You will help shape the analytics infrastructure, mentor teams, and own a library of reusable algorithms to scale impact across business units.

You will lead large, complex projects, collaborate with IT and business partners, and push for best practices in prescriptive modeling like optimization, computer vision, and NLP.