Senior Data Scientist — Strategic Business Partner

Socket.dev; Northbrook (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UL Solutions seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to translate business needs into analytics-driven solutions. You’ll partner with business leaders, frame ambiguous problems, and deliver end-to-end data science initiatives from discovery to adoption.

You will work across data engineering, product, and platform teams, building models, dashboards, and decision-support tools to drive measurable outcomes. Strong communication and governance are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data science or related quantitative field.
• 7 to 10+ years of experience in data science or analytics.
• Proven experience partnering with business leaders to solve complex problems.
• Lead discovery, gather requirements, define measurable outcomes.
• Strong business acumen linking analytics to outcomes.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python or R for data work.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar visualization tools.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience delivering in Agile settings and Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end analytics and data science initiatives from discovery to outcome measurement.
• Analyze large datasets to identify patterns, drivers, and actionable insights.
• Design, develop, and evaluate statistical, predictive, and ML solutions.
• Define evaluation criteria including performance, interpretability, feasibility, and impact.
• Develop dashboards and analyses using SQL, Python/R, Power BI or Tableau.
• Synthesize analyses into clear narratives for executive audiences.
• Mentor analysts and promote reproducibility, governance, and standards.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Business acumen

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, CS, analytics or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Azure DevOps

Job description

UL Solutions seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to translate business needs into analytics-driven solutions. You’ll partner with business leaders, frame ambiguous problems, and deliver end-to-end data science initiatives from discovery to adoption.

You will work across data engineering, product, and platform teams, building models, dashboards, and decision-support tools to drive measurable outcomes. Strong communication and governance are essential.