Senior Data Scientist / Consultant

Centric Software, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Centric Software, Inc. is seeking a (Senior) Data Scientist / Consultant to work remotely from the USA. You will engage with clients and project teams, translate business needs into data transformations, and own data science topics across data engineering and modelling efforts.

The role emphasizes Python-based prototyping, robust documentation, and clear communication to non-technical stakeholders, with a broad opportunity to impact pricing, promotions, and inventory decisions.

Qualifications

• Excellent SQL skills and outstanding analytical instincts.
• 3+ years in data analytics, ideally in retail or consumer products.
• Hands-on experience with Python (Pandas, NumPy, Statsmodels).
• Strong communication skills in English, and the ability to make data concepts clear to a non-technical audience.
• A degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics, physics, economics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Partner with project managers, consultants, and clients across onboarding projects.
• Turn business processes and customer requirements into data transformations and modelling approaches.
• Design, prepare, and analyze A/B tests to settle open questions with evidence.
• Prototype with product management and translate ideas into well-tested Python code.
• Track project-specific effort and maintain reliable solution documentation.

Skills

SQL

Python (Pandas, NumPy, Statsmodels)

Analytical instincts

Education

CS/Data Science/Math/Statistics/Economics degree

Tools

PySpark

Job description

Job title: (Senior) Data Scientist / Consultant

Location: Remote (USA)

About the Role

At Centric, we help some of the world’s most recognized fashion, beauty, and home brands decide what to stock, what to promote, and what to charge — and we help them do it with AI.

What You’ll Do

Customer & Project Engagement

• Partner with project managers, consultants, and clients across the full arc of an onboarding project.
• Turn business processes and customer requirements into concrete data transformations and modelling approaches.
• Make technical concepts land with non-technical stakeholders clearly.

Data & Model Ownership

• Own the technical conversation: you are the go-to contact for data science and data engineering topics.
• Keep data flows accurate, stable, and well documented.
• Design, prepare, and analyze A/B tests that settle open questions with evidence.
• Train and validate statistical and machine learning models that quantify what pricing, promotions, and inventory decisions really do to the business.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Prototype with product management and take the good ideas all the way to efficient, well-tested code in Python.
• Track project-specific effort and keep solution documentation reliable and complete.
• Align customers and partners on data formats and transmission schedules.

What You Bring Must-Haves

• Excellent SQL skills and outstanding analytical instincts.
• 3+ years in data analytics, ideally in retail or consumer products.
• Hands-on experience with Python (Pandas, NumPy, Statsmodels).
• Strong communication skills in English, and the ability to make data concepts clear to a non-technical audience.
• A degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics, physics, economics, or a related field.

Perfect-to-Haves

• Experience with big data environments such as PySpark.
• Familiarity with statistical modeling or behavioral price effects.
• Additional languages beyond English.

Why Join Us

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• A multifaceted role with real responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities at the forefront of applied AI.
• Varied, challenging work that keeps your technical skillset growing.
• The flexibility of remote work, alongside a dedicated and motivated global team with deep expertise in pricing and inventory optimization.

If this sounds like your next step, we would be glad to hear from you.

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.

Join Centric Software®, where digital transformation meets real-world impact. We design and deliver next-generation solutions that empower the world’s leading retailers, brands and manufacturers in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and multi-category retail—to become smarter, leaner and more sustainable. Our philosophy is simple: attract the best customers by building the best solutions—crafted by the best teams across the globe. Together, we push boundaries, transform industries and shape the future of how products are made, launched and managed.