Lead Data Scientist: Drive Impact with AI & Analytics

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to drive data science initiatives that improve profitability, efficiency and customer experience. You will help build advanced analytics infrastructure and lead projects across business units, mentoring a team of data scientists and owning reusable algorithm libraries.

You will design prescriptive models, collaborate with IT, and seek opportunities to apply cutting-edge techniques such as optimization, NLP, and computer vision to retail challenges.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in BI, analytics or AI/ML fields.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines.
• Strong Python, SQL and data visualization skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead large data science projects across multiple business units.
• Mentor and coach data scientists on technical competencies.
• Build and maintain library of reusable algorithms and data products.
• Partner with IT to advance tooling and maintain technical agility.

Skills

10+ years data science

leadership

communication

problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Python

SQL

Tableau

Job description

The Home Depot is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to drive data science initiatives that improve profitability, efficiency and customer experience. You will help build advanced analytics infrastructure and lead projects across business units, mentoring a team of data scientists and owning reusable algorithm libraries.

You will design prescriptive models, collaborate with IT, and seek opportunities to apply cutting-edge techniques such as optimization, NLP, and computer vision to retail challenges.