Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research: Optimization Expert

Total Wine & More; United States; On-site; USD 122,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Store discounts

Health plans

401(k)

Job summary

Total Wine & More is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research to join our Data Services team in Bethesda, MD. You will lead the design and deployment of optimization and decision science solutions that drive business outcomes across Total Wine & More.

This role focuses on solving large-scale mathematical problems to inform pricing, inventory, supply chain, and marketing optimization. You will work at the intersection of data, mathematical modeling, and decisioning systems,

Qualifications

• Degree in OR/IE/Applied Math/CS or related field.
• 3–6 years in Operations Research/Optimization.
• Hands-on with Gurobi or similar solvers.
• Experience deploying models in production environments.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Formulate and solve large-scale optimization models (LP, MILP, MINLP).
• Develop end-to-end decision systems and production workflows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define objectives, constraints, and trade-offs.
• Evaluate solution quality with scenario testing and stress testing.
• Scale models and build APIs, monitoring, and retraining workflows.
• Build data pipelines for modeling with large datasets, ensuring data quality.
• Communicate model structure, assumptions, and results to leadership.
• Lead design and deployment of optimization solutions across operations.

Skills

Mathematical modeling

Optimization

Data engineering

Software engineering

Communication with leadership

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in relevant field

Master’s Degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, CS

Tools

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

Python

SQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Total Wine & More is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research to join our Data Services team in Bethesda, MD. You will lead the design and deployment of optimization and decision science solutions that drive business outcomes across Total Wine & More.

This role focuses on solving large-scale mathematical problems to inform pricing, inventory, supply chain, and marketing optimization. You will work at the intersection of data, mathematical modeling, and decisioning systems,