Principal Data Scientist

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Weekly pay

Scheduling flexibility

Paid parental leave

Paid education assistance

Team member discount

Development programs for advancement and career growth

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This is a hybrid role meaning you have to be in our Grand Rapids office Monday - Wednesday. Relocation Assistance may potentially be provided.

The Data Science team at Meijer leads the strategy, development and integration of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at Meijer.

Data Scientists on the team will drive customer loyalty, digital conversion, and system efficiencies by delivering innovative data driven solutions.

Through these solutions, the data scientists drive material business value, mitigating business and operational risk, and significantly impacts the customer experience.

This role works directly with product development, merchandising, marketing, operations, ITS, ecommerce, and vendor partners.

The position will lead, consult or oversee multiple highly complex data science projects / programs / domains that have significant impacts and require in-depth technical knowledge across multiple specific architecture disciplines such as technology, solution, business, or information / data.

What You'll Be Doing :

Deliver against the overall data science strategy to drive in-store and digital merchandising, marketing, customer loyalty, and operational performance

Partner with product development to define requirements which meet system and customer experience needs for data science projects

Partner with Merchandising, Supply Chain, Operations and customer insights to understand the journey that will be improved with the data science deliverables

Build production ready prototypes for, and iteratively develop, end-to-end data science pipelines including custom algorithms, statistical models, machine learning and artificial intelligence functions to meet end user needs

Partner with product development and technology teams to deploy pipelines into production MLOps environment following Safe Agile methodology

You will architect, design, and lead the development and implementation of machine learning algorithms and models for a data science capability within Digital Services, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain and Operations.

Designs, codes, and implements new industry leading design patterns in data science, to create the convention / technique / practice that teams are accountable to follow.

Foster a culture of innovation by keeping up-to-date with the latest industry trends and research across data science, AI and retail.

Mentors data science teams and promotes a culture of curiosity, accountability, & enthusiasm.

Provides data science strategy to ensure code modernization and industry standard patterns for data science.

Provides guidance to development teams within domain (Commerce, Services or Mobile).

Leads non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability related to data science.

Promotes the implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivered to customers.

Proactively identify data driven solutions for strategic cross-functional initiatives, develop and present business cases, and gain stakeholder alignment of solution

Responsible to define, document & follow best practices & approve for ML / AI development at Meijer

Own communication with data consumers (internal and external) to ensure they understand the data science products, have the proper training, and are following the best practices in application of data science products

Define and analyze Key Performance Indicators to monitor the usage, adoption, health and value of the data products

Identify and scope, in conjunction with IT, the architecture of systems and environment needs to ensure that data science systems can deliver against strategy

Build and maintain relationships with key partners, suppliers and industry associations and continue to advance data science capabilities, knowledge and impact

This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required

Education :

Advanced Degree (MA / MS, PhD) in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field

Certifications : Azure Data Science Associate, Azure AI, Safe Agile

What You Bring with You (Qualifications) :

8+ years of relevant data science experience in an applied role preferable w / in retail, logistics, supply chain or CPG with a focus on NLP and AI

Advanced and hands on experience using : Python, Databricks, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Service, Ads Data Hub, BIQuery, SAS, R, SQL, PySpark, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, AutoTS, Prophet, NLTK

Experience with Azure Cloud technologies including Azure DevOps, Azure Synapse, MLOps, GitHub

Solid experience working with large datasets and developing ML / AI systems such as : natural language processing, speech / text / image recognition, supervised and unsupervised learning models, forecasting and / or econometric time series models

Developed efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems

Technical team leadership experience.

Experience in Scaled Agile framework is preferred.

Proactive and action oriented

Ability to collaborate with, and present to internal and external partners

Experience in the retail industry or in a production / service environment is preferred.

We opened our doors more than 85 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we’re a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states.

Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 240 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect.

Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification.

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