Senior Data Scientist

Company: Microsoft
Location: Redmond
Posted on: May 17, 2023

Job Description:

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind one of the World's largest Cloud Infrastructures, responsible for powering all Microsoft online Products and Services as well as powering Microsoft's "Cloud First" mission. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide, and we are looking for passionate, committed Senior Data Scientist to help achieve that mission.


If you want to have fundamental impact on how Microsoft's Cloud is deployed and Data Centers are operated globally, want to be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft, have technical and business acumen, leadership, creativity, and out of the box thinking are some of the skills you bring to the table - the Senior Data Scientist role is for you!


Responsibilities


Your responsibilities will include:


Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, Data Center engineering, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a scenario. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Ensures appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other.

Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality solutions and defines success for the outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests).

Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.

Transforms problems into analysis plans, metrics, Power BI reporting with an understanding of Network topology.

Clean, analyze, data-mine and visualize a variety of Data Center delivery data to identify opportunities, insights, and anomalies.

Understand business problems and use mathematical frameworks to deliver machine learning models that can be used to solve Data Center delivery problems.

Set up large and complex data pipelines with the use of SQL.

Partners with teams across Microsoft & within Identity division to drive customer opportunities and revenue growth.

Communicates key outcomes with stakeholders and leadership.

Mentors other Data Scientists and Data Engineers.

Clean, analyze, data-mine and visualize a variety of Data Center delivery data to identify opportunities, insights, and anomalies.

Understand business problems and use mathematical frameworks to deliver machine learning models that can be used to solve Data Center delivery problems.

Set up large and complex data pipelines.

Qualifications


Required/Minimum Qualifications


Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Analytics, Mathematics, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, SQL, PowerBI or Python.

OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications


Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Analytics, Mathematics, or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, SQL, PowerBI or Python.

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, SQL, Power BI or Python.

OR equivalent experience.

5+ years' experience driving execution with hyper-scale cloud engineering groups.

Proficient understanding of Network topology.

Professional PM certification, ESi, PMP, PMI, Prince 2 or equivalent.

Experience setting up, building and maintaining production data pipelines.

Experience with Data Cleansing and Normalization.

SQL database experience preferred.

Data Architecture experience preferred.

Experience starting large analytic projects and collaborating with teams across global and functions.

Experience solving business problems and using mathematical techniques using available data.

Ability to navigate ambiguity, solve complex challenges, and operate in a fast-paced team environment.


Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.


Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay


Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.


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