Staff Data Scientist

Job Description

The Role

This is a unique opportunity to become part of a diverse team comprising seasoned professionals. Together, we spearhead the discovery of opportunities and craft solutions, advancing analytics initiatives across our global operations. Our responsibilities encompass both strategic analytics planning and project-driven problem-solving, concentrating on pivotal business domains.

This role applies leading analytic practices and methods, designs and leads iterative development and learning cycles, and ultimately produces new and creative analytic solutions that become part of the operating fabric of the global enterprise.

What Youll Do

Working with cross-functional teams to discover and develop actionable, high-impact data analytics needs and opportunities in a variety of core business areas.

Developing industry leading solutions including:

Assessing existing analytic models and architectures, reviewing for gaps against business needs and industry best practices

Identifying detailed data needs, sources, and structure to support solution development

Determining the analytic approaches to be used and defining and applying the appropriate methodologies

Employing Proof-of-Concepts for exploratory and targeted data analyses, leading to breakthrough solutions

Ensuring integrity of the analytical solutions in terms of the underlying statistical and economic models and assumptions

Designing and developing project-specific models.

Architecting analytical tools to productionize cloud-based analytical models

Monitoring and sustaining model effectiveness

Additional Job Description

Required Qualifications

Business Acumen:

Ability to understand complex business processes, and how business value is created. Based on that knowledge, propose analytic strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of the working team.

Ability to create structured problem statements and conceptualize potential solutions from rough client specifications and information.

Ability to communicate analyses, status, results, and recommendations to business management and executives in business terms.

Technical expertise:

Expert knowledge and experience in one or more of these areas: Numerical optimization, econometric modeling and forecasting, machine learning, Bayesian statistics, game theory, agent-based simulation, text analytics, and computer vision / pattern recognition

Experience with analyzing source system data and data flows and working with structured and unstructured data.

Experience with manipulating high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources to highlight patterns, anomalies, relationships, and trends.

Excellent technical knowledge in two or more of the following technology areas:

Analytic tools and languages for statistical and machine learning models such as Python (Sci-Kit Learn), Spark, R

Deep Learning frameworks and tools such as TensorFlow

Cloud based data science platform such as Databricks and Azure

Data management and processing using Postgres, Databricks

Data visualization with tools such as Power BI, Tableau

Application development using Java, Springboot, React, Node, Angular

Additional Qualifications:

10 Years Professional Experience in the area.

Flexible analytic approach that allows for producing results at varying levels of precision.

Strong listening and communications skills, with ability to clearly and concisely explain complex problems and technologies to non-expert and executive audiences.

Evidence of being able to transfer solutions to business stakeholders for successful adoption and value realization.

Highly collaborative work style, with ability to provide leadership to a cross-functional team.

Working well under uncertainties.

Commitment to constant learning to expand skills and keep pace with industry advances

Ph.D. preferred; master’s degree or equivalent 10 year’s work experience in related technical or quantitative fields required (see above technical areas)

This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford or Mountain View], you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

A company vehicle will be provided for this role with successful completion of a Motor Vehicle Report review.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

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Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;

• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;

• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;

• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;

• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;

• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

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We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

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