Lead Principal Data Scientist at Volkswagen Financial Services focusing on data science product development and leading high-impact initiatives. Collaborate to shape VWFS’s mobility transformation strategy with data-driven solutions.
Responsibilities
Lead data science product development, set standards, best practices, and innovation for the data science CoE (25%)
Experimentation, build, integration of data science solutions into core business processes and new opportunities (75%)
Definition and ongoing improvement of a machine learning environment
Develop and deploy AI models that impact business decisions
Establish best practices and governance routines to ensure adherence to model management policies, peer reviews, and compliance to our policy standards for privacy, ethics, and bias.
Bring relevant data science techniques, algorithms, and tools to your team
Provide technical oversight, help and mentorship to the junior data scientists on the team
Apply suitable techniques for model testing and tuning, to assess accuracy, fit, validity, and robustness
Innovate new ML methods in the data science space and drive change throughout the business
Contributes to code documentation, maintains playbooks, and provides timely progress updates
Help generate compelling hypotheses to drive new business creation
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Operations Research or similar quantitative field
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Operations Research or similar quantitative field
12+ years of data & analytics work experience with 8+ years in data science
7+ years in utilizing methods and tools to extract, curate, explore, and analyze data from large data sources
7+ years in developing, integrating and deploying machine learning solutions into the business decision making process
7+ years in leveraging algorithms, tune parameters and back testing validation
5+ years leading ML project development
Collaborate with product owners and product managers to translate business requirements into impactful AI solutions that scale
Build, integrate and deploy machine learning solutions into the business decision-making process
Thorough knowledge of machine learning models, including both traditional ML and GenAI
Utilize a consultative approach to work with the business to solve challenging problems using various analytical techniques
Embrace, research, explore, and enable new quantitative techniques and technologies in data science that will help define VWFS as an industry leader in the application of data science techniques
Extensive experience with model evaluation and solid grasp of A/B testing and causal analysis
Research new data sources and analytical tools, contribute to new application development, and data quality improvement efforts
Ability to originate curiosity to collaborate with different business units to co-create solutions
Passion for data analysis and problem solving
Establishes and maintains effective performance tracking; identifies improvement opportunity, form hypothesis, propose, design and implement tests to drive strategy enhancement and optimization.
Superior ability to communicate technical ideas and results to non-technical users in written and verbal form.
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