Data Scientist

Overview"Do you enjoy solving problems, looking at problems through a different lens, and working closely with customers to innovate new solutions to complex problems? Do you jump with excitement at the opportunity to identify trends and provide unique business solutions? Do you want to join a team where learning about a new technology or solution is part of our work every day? The Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) Engineering & Architecture Group (EAG) is a global consulting and engineering organization that supports ourmost complex and leading-edgecustomer engagements. Driving early-stage deliveries enhances ISD's technical capabilities, and partnering withothers to develop approaches, innovativesolutions, and engineeringstandards in order to set our sales and delivery teams up forsuccess. We provide consistent high-quality customerexperience throughtechnical leadership for AI and IP capture centered on delivery truth. As part of the team, you will be a key leader in the largest Data Science and AI team in the Industry Solutions Organization, learn in a fast paced, production focused environment, delivering customer value with everything we do and help protect Microsoft's enterprise customers. The job provides an opportunity to: Impact on one of the fastest growing teams in Industry Solutions that is critical to the Microsoft AI strategy. Work in a world class team of Data Scientist, AI Engineers, Data Engineers, Architects, and leadership that will help you grow your career. Be part of a dynamic AI community that will enable you to learn, collaborate, and contribute with the top minds in the industry. We are looking for someone who is highly customer focused with the right combination of curiosity, technical aptitude, and communication skills to become a Data Scientist in the EAG AI Engineering team within the Industry Solutions Organization. You will be part of a high-performing AI Engineering organization and will be in a role that is focused on customer success and satisfaction. Since we are an AI Engineering team, we focus a good deal on Data Science and AI technologies, so the ideal candidate will have strong track record of addressing complex customer scenarios in the Data & AI solution space. What's also super important is that you can show empathy for customers, their business outcomes, and plans, and are proficient at guiding teamwork to deliver great AI outcomes for our customers. We are a team of fun, dynamic, supportive community and our Leadership is committed to delivering the best AI solutions and services to our customers. We get to develop and run innovative Data & AI services at extremely large scale for our enterprise customers, which presents challenges we love to solve. If this sounds like the right environment for you, please join us."
ResponsibilitiesBusiness Understanding and ImpactLeverages understanding of data science and business to examine a project and consider factors that can influence final outcomes within a technical area. Evaluates project plan for resources, risks, contingencies, requirements, assumptions, and constraints. Documents key business objectives. Effectively communicates business goals in analytical and technical terms. Consistently shares insights with stakeholders. Data Preparation and UnderstandingUnderstands where to acquire data necessary for successful completion of the project plan. Utilizes querying, visualization, and reporting techniques to describe acquired data, including format, quantity, identities, and other surface properties. Explores data for key attributes and contributes to the development of data quality report describing results of the task, initial findings, and impact on the project. Collaborates with others to perform data-science experiments using established methodologies, statistics, optimization, and probability theory for general purpose software and statistical packages. Assesses different tools and techniques and selects the appropriate one. Serves as an effective partner in data preparation efforts to Solution Architects, Consultants, and Data Engineers. Adheres to Microsoft's privacy policy related to collecting and preparing data. Identifies data integrity problems. Modeling and Statistical AnalysisLeverages knowledge of machine learning solutions (e.g., classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, natural language processing [NLP], image recognition) and individual algorithms (e.g., linear and logistic regression, k-means, gradient boosting, autoregressive integrated moving average [ARIMA], recurrent neutral networks [RNN], long short-term memory [LSTM] networks) to identify the best approach to complete objectives. Understands modeling techniques (e.g., dimensionality reduction, cross-validation, regularization, encoding, assembling, activation functions) and selects the correct approach to prepare data, train and optimize the model, and evaluate the output for statistical and business significance. Understands the risks of data leakage, the bias/variance tradeoff, methodological limitations, etc. Writes all necessary scripts in the appropriate language: T-SQL, U-SQL, KQL, Python, R, etc. Constructs hypotheses, designs controlled experiments, analyzes results using statistical tests, and communicates findings to business stakeholders. Effectively communicates with diverse audiences on data-quality issues and initiatives. Understands operational considerations of model deployment, such as performance, scalability, monitoring, maintenance, integration into engineering production system, and stability. Develops operational models that run at scale through partnership with data engineering teams. EvaluationUnderstands linkage between achieved model and business objectives. Assists with testing models on test applications and on real data or production data. Analyzes model performance. Incorporates implicit and explicit customer feedback into model evaluation. Conducts review of data analysis and modeling techniques to determine factors that may have been overlooked or need to be reexamined. Contributes to the summary of the review process. Industry and Research Knowledge/Opportunity IdentificationLearns and understands the current state of the industry, including knowledge of tools, techniques, strategies, and processes that can be utilized to improve process efficiency and performance. Maintains knowledge of current trends within the discipline. Attends internal research conferences and participates in on-hands training, when appropriate. Actively contributes to the body of thought leadership and intellectual property (IP) best practices. Coding and DebuggingUnderstands existing code to write efficient and readable code of their own for a specific feature, seeking guidance as needed. Collaborates with other engineering teams to develop, test, and implement changes to optimize code to improve efficiency, reliability, diagnosability, maintainability, and operability of systems. Develops working expertise in proper debugging techniques such as locating, isolating, and resolving errors and/or defects. Collaborates with other engineers/project team members to integrate data models into customers' engineering systems. Understands big-data software engineering concepts, such as Hadoop Ecosystem, Apache Spark, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), Docker, Delta Lake, MLflow, AML, and representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) consumption/development. Business ManagementDevelops understanding of data structures and their relationship to Microsoft's customer business. Observes engineers and learns best practices in identifying growth opportunities, understanding strategy goals, customer- and product-strategy goals, and exploring opportunities for machine learning (ML) application, seeking guidance when needed. Understands business goals of the customer, per engagement basis. Customer/Partner OrientationLeverages understanding of data science and business to examine projects through a customer-oriented focus. Manages customer expectations regarding project/product progress and timeline. Takes responsibility to enhance customer excellence. Assists and learns from team members interpret results, develop insights, and communicate results to customers. Possesses basic understanding about model accuracies' dependency on data quality and able to articulate it in customer discussions. OtherEmbody our culture and values