Senior Data Scientist

Aptean; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Benefits package

Career growth opportunities

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Aptean seeks a Senior Data Scientist on the Strategy team in Alpharetta, Georgia. You will apply data science and ML to answer strategic questions, from churn prediction to growth opportunities, partnering with executives and finance to translate business questions into rigorous analysis.

This role balances technical depth with business fluency: build predictive models and communicate findings to VP-level audiences, delivering actionable recommendations and scalable analytics platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist with predictive modeling
• Master's degree required; PhD strongly preferred
• Strong SQL skills and experience with large, multi-source data platforms
• Strong understanding of statistics, data modeling, and ML algorithms
• Experience with large datasets, visualization tools, and MLOps practices
• Ability to present technical findings to non-technical, senior stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches
• Mine and analyze data from unified data platform to answer strategic questions
• Apply AI-first approaches to accelerate analysis and insights
• Build and own predictive models and quantify business impact
• Perform exploratory data analysis, statistics, and A/B testing to validate hypotheses
• Clean, preprocess and validate large datasets from multiple sources
• Build AI-first dashboards and self-service tools for stakeholders
• Present findings and recommendations to technical and executive audiences

Skills

Predictive modeling

SQL

Machine learning

Data visualization

MLOps

A/B testing

Executive communication

Education

Master's degree in Data Science/Statistics/CS

PhD in related field preferred

Tools

SparkSQL

AWS

Tableau/Power BI

Job description

Overview

About the role

As a Senior Data Scientist on Aptean's Strategy team, based in Alpharetta, Georgia, you will use data science and machine learning to answer some of the business's most important strategic questions - from understanding why customers churn and predicting who's at risk, to identifying where we have the strongest opportunities for growth and expansion. You'll partner closely with business leaders, finance, and executives, turning open-ended business questions into rigorous analysis and clear, actionable recommendations.

This role sits at the intersection of technical depth and business fluency: you'll need to be equally comfortable building a predictive model and explaining what it means - and why it matters - to an executive audience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with Strategy leadership and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous, open-ended questions into structured analytical approaches
• Mine and analyze data from our unified data platform to answer ad hoc and recurring strategic questions for leadership
• Apply an AI-first approach to problem-solving, leveraging modern AI tools and techniques to accelerate analysis and uncover insights faster
• Build and own predictive models and quantify business impact
• Perform exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis, and A/B testing to validate hypotheses and support decision-making
• Clean, preprocess, and validate large datasets pulled from multiple internal sources
• Build AI-first dashboards and self-service tools so non-technical stakeholders can access and explore insights directly
• Present findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and executive audiences, using visualizations and written reports

About you

You're a strong problem-solver with genuine curiosity about the "why" behind the numbers. You're as comfortable presenting to a VP as you are deep in the data itself. You know how to scope a vague business question into something analytically tractable, and you don't wait to be handed a clean dataset and a defined problem - you go find both.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years' experience as a Data Scientist, with a track record of predictive modeling projects
• Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field required; Ph.D. in a related field strongly preferred
• Strong SQL skills and comfort working directly in large, multi-source data platforms
• Strong understanding of statistics, data modeling, and machine learning algorithms
• Experience with large datasets, visualization tools, and MLOps practices
• Demonstrated ability to present technical findings to non-technical, senior stakeholders - this is a core requirement, not a nice-to-have

To be ahead of the pack, you might have:

• Experience with SparkSQL, Fabric or Spark data frameworks
• Familiarity with AWS or Azure for model development and deployment
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI or similar visualization tools

What's in it for you?

Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow's unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean's purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean's compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company." – TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.