Sr Data Scientist

Role Overview Seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join its AI Center of Excellence (AI COE) team. This role focuses on researching, designing, and deploying scalable AI/ML solutions that enhance customer experience, enable innovative digital products, and drive store revenue growth. Key Responsibilities • Research, prototype, and develop AI/ML solutions for personalization and customer intelligence. • Build, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models in production environments. • Perform statistical experiments and analyze model performance post-deployment. • Analyze and segment structured and unstructured customer data; present insights through effective visualizations. • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data teams to deliver end-to-end AI solutions. • Stay current with emerging AI/ML technologies and continuously improve engineering quality and innovation standards. • Mentor junior data scientists and lead complex project initiatives. Required Qualifications • 4+ years of experience in statistical data science, feature engineering, and customer segmentation. • 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python, SQL, and PySpark. • 4+ years of experience training, evaluating, and deploying ML models. • Experience productionizing ML workloads in AWS or Azure environments. • Experience with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes. • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with Databricks platform. • Experience building ML models using large-scale structured and unstructured datasets. • Prior experience leading/mentoring data science teams.