Senior Data Scientist

The Coca-Cola Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a data science professional to drive ML/AI initiatives across global functions. You will translate business requirements into scalable models, wrangle large datasets, and deliver actionable insights through reports and visualizations.

Ideal candidates bring 4+ years in statistical modeling, production deployment, and strong communication skills to present complex results to diverse audiences. Enterprise data platforms and CI/CD familiarity are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field; Ph.D. preferred.
• Experience gathering, interpreting and translating business requirements.
• Proficient experience with Python, R, and SQL.
• Understand data structures and common data transformation methods.
• Experience wrangling large-scale data with relational DBs and/or Spark.
• 4+ years applying statistical, modeling and optimization techniques; production deployment.
• Strong aptitude for learning new data science technologies.
• Ability to communicate complex analytics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with version control platforms like GitHub, GitLab or Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and objectives.
• Translate requirements and develop ML/AI algorithms for insights across Marketing, Finance, Innovation and Supply Chain.
• Leverage large structured and unstructured data for modeling and insights.
• Visualize and interpret data, create reports and actionable insights.
• Communicate complex analytics to executives and stakeholders.
• Partner with ML OPS to scale ML/AI use-cases and deployments.
• Maintain technical documentation and library of data science solutions.
• Leverage CI/CD to automate deployments and improve repeatability.
• Stay updated on data science trends and technologies.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Spark

Data wrangling

GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps

Machine learning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree

Ph.D. preferred

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Job description

The Coca-Cola Company’s Technology organization is in the midst of a digital transformation that allows our employees to use world class technology to connect our products to our customers all over the world. This journey is a very exciting time for Coca-Cola and our employees are big contributors to our Success and Growth. Our large scale and complex environment offers an incredible opportunity to address challenges, enable innovative solutions to make a difference for our customers.

What You’ll Do For Us

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and objectives.
• Translate business requirements by incorporating data and develop ML and AI algorithms to produce actionable insights for various functional areas and use-cases, including Marketing, Finance, Technical Innovation and Supply Chain (among others) across the Globe.
• Leverage a diverse set of large structured and unstructured data to derive meaningful insights and information sets for modeling.
• Visualize and interpret data and create reports and actionable insights.
• Communicate complex analytical work to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive management.
• Partner with ML OPS to scale and operationalize ML and AI use-cases.
• Maintain technical documentation in accordance with the agreed standards.
• Build and maintain a robust library of data science solutions, reusable templates, algorithms and supporting code.
• Leverage CI and CD principles to automate and improve repeatability of deployments.
• Keep abreast of industry trends and developments in data science and analytics.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field, such as Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Operations Research or other quantitative discipline. Ph.D. preferred.
• Experience gathering, interpreting and translating business requirements.
• Proficient experience with analytical and programming languages and packages, such as Python, R, and SQL.
• Able to understand various data structures and common methods in data transformation.
• Demonstrated experience in large-scale data wrangling with relational databases and/or Spark.
• 4+ years’ experience applying a range of statistical, modeling, and mathematical optimization techniques including hypothesis testing, dimensionality reduction, Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP), supervised learning (classification and regression), Bayesian modeling, forecasting, and unsupervised clustering and putting solutions into production.
• Strong aptitude for learning and applying new technologies related to Data Science and Data Management.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex analytical concepts and results at multiple levels to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with code version control platforms like GitHub, GitLab or Azure DevOps.

Functional Skills

• Handles multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Strong attention to details and excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Highly innovative, adaptable, and self-directed
• Results-oriented with a delivery focus
• Presentation skills: Ability to communicate technical topics to business audience
• Be able to collaborate across other levels of the organization
• Team player who can lead a discussion to defined outcomes
• Effective Communication
• Pursuing Innovation

What We Can Do for You

• Innovation & Technology: The ability to work with an award-winning team that is on the cutting edge of innovation.
• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global technology leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging technologies and techniques.
• Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile with management that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to experiment, iterate and innovate.

Our Purpose And Growth Culture

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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