Principal Data Scientist

Business Understanding and Impact Drives alignment between customer business priorities and data science strategy across complex engagements, solution areas, or industry scenarios. Frames ambiguous business problems into scalable data science opportunities and defines approaches that balance time to value, technical feasibility, risk, and long-term maintainability. Makes high-judgment recommendations on solution direction, methodological tradeoffs, and delivery priorities where decisions affect multiple stakeholders, workstreams, or long-term platform choices. Assesses resources, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and constraints across multiple workstreams and uses that judgment to influence direction and prioritization. Uses deep understanding of organizational dynamics, cross-team interdependencies, schedule constraints, and resource tradeoffs to drive action from partners and senior stakeholders. Translates business strategy into data and AI strategies for specific industries and cross-industry functions such as Sales, Marketing, Operations, and data monetization. Leads senior customer conversations to define problems, shape solution direction, and identify reusable patterns that can improve outcomes beyond a single engagement. Raises the bar for others through guidance on standards, decision frameworks, and best practices. Guides teams and customers in identifying the data required to achieve business outcomes and highlights material gaps, risks, and tradeoffs early. Establishes repeatable approaches for assessing and improving data usability for modeling, experimentation, and operationalization. Establishes methodological standards for feature engineering, validation design, regularization, experimentation, optimization, and evaluation, including practices around leakage prevention, bias/variance tradeoffs, robustness, and model limitations. Designs hypotheses and experiments, interprets results with statistical and business rigor, and communicates implications clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Provides technical leadership to data scientists, engineers, and architects by setting the standard for sound modeling decisions and explaining complex concepts in practical, customer-relevant terms. Ensures that success criteria are explicit, measurable, and aligned to customer objectives before and throughout delivery. Establishes launch-readiness, monitoring, and feedback mechanisms that enable teams to assess whether solutions are delivering intended outcomes over time. Guides teams and stakeholders through tradeoffs involving confidence, limitations, fairness, generalizability, and business risk. Provides principal-level technical leadership in code quality, maintainability, production readiness, and debugging practices for advanced analytics and machine learning systems. Establishes and promotes engineering patterns for readable, extensible, well-tested code and reliable operationalization across multiple teams and solutions. Guides teams on effective debugging, defect prevention, observability, and root-cause analysis for data and model pipelines. Builds credibility with senior leaders by helping them understand where data science can create value, what constraints must be addressed, and which tradeoffs matter most. Builds durable trust through transparency about data limitations, model risks, and operational realities. Serves as a recognized technical and domain leader who brings together customer signals, delivery experience, market trends, and advances in AI/data science to shape strategy. Identifies opportunities to create new value across customers, industries, and solution areas by translating emerging needs into reusable approaches, offerings, and delivery priorities. Influences engineering and architecture direction by highlighting patterns, gaps, and opportunities observed across engagements. Creates durable intellectual property such as playbooks, reference architectures, evaluation approaches, and best practices that improve delivery quality at scale. Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) OR equivalent experience.