Senior Data Scientist - Industry Solution Engineering
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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? Then, come join us!
The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers looking to leverage the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges. We work closely with our customers’ engineers to jointly develop code for cloud-based solutions that can accelerate their organization. We collaborate with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to empower our customers to do more with the cloud and develop solutions side-by-side with our customers through collaborative innovation. This work involves the development of broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns and open-source software assets that contribute to the Microsoft platform.
We are hiring a Senior Data Scientist to help drive high-impact engineering projects with our customers and their partners, transforming their missions using AI and other cloud-based solutions and services. Data scientists bring data‑management expertise and statistical techniques to analyze data and uncover patterns. You will be part of a cross‑functional team of software engineers, data scientists, technical program managers, and designers who build innovative solutions, identify patterns, and create reusable assets that accelerate delivery for other customers.
Responsibilities
Acquire the data necessary for your project plan and develop usable data sets for modeling. Maintain internal best practices for data collection and preparation, and contribute to data integrity conversations with customers.
Evaluate your team’s models and recommend improvements as necessary, drive best practices for models, and develop operational models that run at scale. Conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques, and identify and invent new evaluation methods.
Research and maintain a deep knowledge of the industry, including trends and technologies, to identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership best practices. Write extensible code that spans multiple features and develop expertise in debugging techniques.
Define business, customer, and solution strategy goals, and partner with other teams to identify and explore new opportunities. Apply a customer‑oriented focus to understand their needs and help drive realistic customer expectations.
Identify and curate patterns and best practices to be reused to accelerate solutions to customer challenges across a range of scenarios.
Embodify our culture and values.
Required / Minimum Qualifications
Doctorate, Master’s, or Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a related field.
Relevant years of data‑science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques, reporting results) or equivalent experience.
Customer‑facing, project‑delivery experience in professional services, consulting, or a related field.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%.
Ability to work across time zones and flexible hours.
Familiarity with AI concepts and the application of cutting‑edge AI products to challenging customer projects.
Skilled use of GitHub Copilot grounded in a thorough understanding of software engineering and data science for efficient development of production code and data science pipelines.
Demonstrated domain knowledge and experience with GenAI technology and models.
At Microsoft, we are seeking people who have a passion for the positive impact technology can have on communities and for making a difference in the world. We invest in your health, wellness, and financial future by offering a competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around your personal needs and those close to you.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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