Principal Data Scientist

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Redmond, WA +3 · Data Science

Principal Data Scientist role within the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team, focusing on developing AI and cloud-based solutions for customers. This role involves data acquisition, model evaluation, developing operational models at scale, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and customers to solve complex business challenges.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will oversee data acquisition and ensure data is properly formatted and described. You’ll also coach engineers in data cleaning and analysis best practices, identify gaps in current data sets, and drive ethics and privacy discussions around data collection and preparation.
  2. You will evaluate your team’s models and recommend improvements as necessary, drive best practices for models, and develop operational models that run at scale. You’ll also conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques, and identify and invent new evaluation methods.
  3. You will research and maintain a deep knowledge of the industry, including trends and technologies, so that you can identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership best practices. You’ll also write extensible code that spans multiple features, and develop expertise in proper debugging techniques.
  4. You will define business, customer, and solution strategy goals, and partner with other teams to identify and explore new opportunities. You’ll also commit to a customer-oriented focus by acknowledging their needs, and offer customer pragmatic solutions that align with their data capabilities.

Skills

Required

  • Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience
  • Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data science experience
  • managing structured and unstructured data
  • applying statistical techniques
  • reporting results

Nice to have

  • Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years data-science experience
  • Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data-science experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years data-science experience
  • 3+ years customer-facing, project-delivery experience, professional services, and/or consulting experience

What the JD emphasized

  • customer-facing
  • develop solutions side-by-side with customers
  • AI and other cloud-based solutions and services
  • transforming their missions using AI

Other signals

  • customer-facing
  • develop solutions side-by-side with customers
  • AI and other cloud-based solutions and services
  • transforming their missions using AI