Sr Data Scientist

Job Description
We are currently looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Data &
Analytics team in Plano, TX.
The Senior Data Scientist will have demonstrated his/her technical skills to lead the design and deployment of data science solutions that balance SOTA with team productivity, model reproducibility as well as support experimentation at scale, with a positive-focused, yet relentless goal for continuous improvement.
The role will lead the people, process and tool choices that support the efforts to build and deploy models that explain the real world, using a must-have combination of intuition, math and programming (Python/R and SQL are mandatory). She/He will be a continuously learning advocate and teacher with a talent for breaking down complex systems into solvable components and executing against that vision. As part of the role is to mentor data scientists and analysts, you love working with the team on any mix of issues that come to light such as in-depth technical/code reviews, hackathons, or whiteboarding to break down problems from multiple angles.
Responsibilities
· Exceptional verbal and written skills to convey ideas, problems and solutions
· Expert at SQL and Python (experience with dbt or pipelines is desirable)
· Able to establish trust and confidence as the data science team lead, up, across and down the organization as needed
· Responsible for designing team processes and applying design patterns that apply statistical and model rigor
· Balance design choices with calculated trade-offs and revisit proactively
· SME on algorithms and designs code that can be refactored easily by a data engineers
· Builds repo and maintains a library of models that can be applied/refactored on similar design patterns
· Expert in both unstructured and structured data set ingestion and classification, regression, deep learning etc.
· Mentors and trains teams in new techniques and pushes boundaries of existing technology to deliver enterprise value
· Owns the Confluence knowledge repository and GitHub model repo
· Refresh, troubleshoot and update models as needed.
· Thought leader on how to converge available data, transfer learning from other projects and test new algorithms that optimize across large, ambiguous data sets
· Coordinate design and architecture with data engineering resources