Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research & Optimization

Total Wine & More; North Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Store discounts

Health care plans

401(k)

HSA

FSA

Disability & life insurance

Paid parental leave

Pet insurance

Critical illness and accident保险

Discounted home and auto insurance

College tuition assistance

Career development & product training

Consumer classes

Job summary

Total Wine & More is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research, to join our Data Services team in Boca Raton, FL. You will lead the design and deployment of optimization and decision science solutions that drive business outcomes across pricing, inventory, supply chain and marketing optimization.

You will work at the intersection of data, mathematical modeling and decisioning systems. This role requires deep hands-on OR experience, including building and solving large-scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Operations Research / related field.
• Master's degree or equivalent in Operations Research / related field.
• 3–6 years’ experience in Operations Research / Optimization or related fields.
• Hands-on experience with Gurobi or similar solvers (CPLEX, OR-Tools).
• Experience building and deploying large-scale mathematical models (LP, MILP) in production environments.
• Ability to design and maintain data pipelines for large-scale modeling workflows and experience with large datasets.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with scalable, maintainable code.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Formulate decision problems as mathematical optimization models (LP, MILP, MINLP).
• Design and implement large-scale optimization models for complex problems.
• Leverage solvers like Gurobi to build high-performance solutions.
• Develop end-to-end decision systems and integrate outputs into workflows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define objectives, constraints and trade-offs.
• Evaluate solution quality with scenario testing and sensitivity analysis.
• Scale and productionize models with APIs, automation, monitoring and retraining workflows.
• Build and maintain data pipelines to support optimization.
• Communicate model structure and results clearly to leadership.

Skills

Operations Research

Optimization

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Production deployment

Education

Bachelor's Degree in OR / related field

Master's Degree in OR / related field

Tools

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Total Wine & More is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research, to join our Data Services team in Boca Raton, FL. You will lead the design and deployment of optimization and decision science solutions that drive business outcomes across pricing, inventory, supply chain and marketing optimization.

You will work at the intersection of data, mathematical modeling and decisioning systems. This role requires deep hands-on OR experience, including building and solving large-scale