Principal Data Scientist

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Principal Data Scientist

Your Tasks And Responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of this role, Principal Data Scientist are to:

• Applied Math, Statistics, and Scientific Practices Identify opportunities to develop statistical insight, reports and models to support organizational objectives, while collaborating across the organization effectively;
• Critique statistical analyses;
• Use a variety of data analytics techniques (such as data mining and prescriptive and predictive analytics) for complex data analysis through the whole data life cycle;
• Use model outputs to produce evidence and help design services and policies;
• Understand a broad range of statistical tools, particularly those deployed within the organization, and can use these appropriately and help others to use them;
• Data Engineering and Manipulation;
• Work with data engineers and data scientists to design and deliver products into the organization effectively;
• Understand the reasons for cleansing and preparing data before including it in data science products and can put reusable processes and checks in place;
• Access and use a range of architectures (including cloud and on-premise) and data manipulation and transformation tools deployed within the organization;
• Data Science Innovation Demonstrate practical knowledge of data science tools and techniques;
• Develop data science solutions that maximize insight Identify opportunities for how data science can improve data practices;
• Delivering Business Impact;
• Champion the role of data science within the organization;
• Understand and champion user research, and can design and manage processes to gather and establish user needs Identify and create opportunities to develop and deliver data science products to support organizational objectives, while collaborating across the organization to fulfil meaningful goals;
• Take responsibility for delivering scalable data science products into the organization, and establishing maintenance support;
• Developing Data Science Capability Act as a leader or technical specialist, providing detailed support and guidance within the organization and helping colleagues to develop skills;
• Set the direction of continuous development plans within the team;
• Keep up to date with new developments in data science and can match those to opportunities in your organization;
• Talk confidently about the benefits of data science approaches to existing and potential customers;
• Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of a wide range of data science techniques, such as machine learning and natural language processing, and detailed knowledge of at least one specialty;
• Use these techniques to build data science solutions, including reports, models and dashboards;
• Ethics and Privacy Oversee compliance with data ethics standards and legislation;
• Develop and manage the ethical framework for how data, machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques are used across the organization, ensuring data governance complies with relevant legislation and standards;
• Embed a culture of data ethics and explain why this is so important;
• Ensure ethics guidance is appropriately applied to the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies and programs;
• Assess and constructively challenge proposed policies and programs;
• Programming and Build Write and test scripts and create basic models in one or more languages;
• Collaborate on shared codebases, using a variety of methodologies;
• Understanding Product Delivery;
• Understand the differences between delivery methods, such as Agile and waterfall, and can choose the most appropriate method to deliver each product;
• Define the minimum viable product (MVP) and support decisions about priorities;
• Work with specialists in multidisciplinary teams to smoothly deliver data science products into the organization.

Who You Are

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications

• Strong academic background with coursework or research in machine learning, AI, statistical modeling, and data analysis;
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or R for data analysis and machine learning;
• Familiarity with libraries and frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, pandas, and NumPy Advanced knowledge of statistical methods and techniques;
• Experience in hypothesis testing, regression analysis, clustering, and classification;
• Expertise in machine learning algorithms and techniques Familiarity with big data technologies and frameworks (e.g., Hadoop, Spark) Proficiency in SQL, relational database, and NoSQL databases;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Experience working collaboratively in interdisciplinary teams;
• Demonstrated experience in leading and mentoring other data scientists;
• Ability to align data science initiatives with business objectives;
• Strong decision-making skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to evaluate assumptions and limitations of data;
• Required Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related field or Bachelor’s with minimum 10 years experience.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $147,040 to $220,560. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 2/24/2025.

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Location:

United States : Missouri : Creve Coeur || United States : Missouri : Chesterfield || United States : Missouri : St. Louis || United States : New Jersey : Whippany || United States : Residence Based : Residence Based

Division:

Enabling Functions

Reference Code:

862097

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