Python Job: Principal Data Scientist

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Company

Microsoft

Location

Vancouver - Canada

Job type

Full-Time

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Do you want to be on the leading edge of using big data to help drive development decisions for the biggest productivity software on the planet? Office Product Group (including core office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Planner, and more) has embarked on a mission to delight our customers by using data-driven, customer-obsessed engineering to develop compelling products and services. The FUEL team in OPG is looking for an experienced person who would leverage forecasting, econometrics, and optimization techniques to minimize the cost of running productivity cloud services. This high-impact position would initially require the technical lead to partner with a wide range of engineers, program managers, and researchers to understand the cost and customer satisfaction angles of cloud services to deliver solutions that help move key results. Not limited to the mentioned problem space, the ideal candidate should be able to own one or more areas of opportunities and identify business or engineering problems, dig out sources of data, conduct the analysis that would reveal useful insights, and eventually help engineering teams to operationalize data-driven solutions.

Responsibilities


  • Scope out large quantitative projects and understand how to resource them either through delegation or individual contribution
  • Identify data sources, integrate multiple sources or types of data, apply expertise within a data source to develop methods to compensate for limitations and extend the applicability of data
  • Transform formulated problems into implementation plans for experiments by applying (and creating when necessary) the appropriate methods, algorithms, and tools, and statistically validating the results against biases and errors
  • Use broad knowledge of innovative methods, algorithms, and tools from within Microsoft and from the scientific literature, and apply your own analysis of scalability and applicability to the formulated problem
  • Interpret data and communicate in a clear and lucid way to a wide variety of audiences
  • Validate, monitor, and drive continuous improvement to methods, and propose enhancements to data sources that improve usability and results
  • Leverage aptitude with telemetry and logging systems to target improvements based on customer needs

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications
  • Expert in one or more statistical software like R or SAS
  • Expert in one or more scripting language like Scope, Perl, Python or SQL
  • Solid foundation of statistical modeling and machine learning algorithms and experimental design
  • Deep understanding of big data systems including map reduce technologies like Hadoop and Spark
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Master’s Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR equivalent experience

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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