Principal Data Scientist

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The role will identify, analyze, and support business drivers, technology strategies, and current technology environments to recommend solutions to improve, develop, and align engineering to the specific domain. The position will lead, consult or oversee multiple highly complex projects/programs/domains that have significant impacts and require in-depth technical knowledge across multiple specific architecture disciplines such as technology, solution, business, or information/data.

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What You’ll Be Doing:

• You will architect, design, and review implementation details for a specific domain within the company’s Digital Services, Commerce, or Mobile solutions.
• Designs, codes, and implements new industry leading design patterns in domain specific code bases, to create the convention/technique/practice that teams are accountable to follow.
• Mentors specific domain engineering teams on principles and best practices. 
• Provides engineering strategy to ensure code modernization and industry standard patterns for specific domain.
• Builds proof of concepts (POCs) that are production ready.
• Provides guidance to development teams within domain (Commerce, Services or Mobile).
• Leads non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability related to the specific domain.
• Promotes the implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivered to customers.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s (or comparable combination of education and related experience).
• 5+ years of progressive responsibility in an IT environment with demonstrated technical knowledge which provides the necessary skills, knowledge, and abilities.
•  3+ years of relevant experience with enterprise-wide Digital Services, Commerce, and Mobile required.
• Advanced knowledge of software development best practices.
• Experience in the retail industry or in a production/service environment is preferred.
• Exposure to a wide variety of software project management methodologies and frameworks with a deep understanding of agile development methodologies.
• Successfully developed and implemented applications in new computing architecture environments using new and emerging technologies.
• Developed efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems
• Technical team leadership experience.
• Experience in Scaled Agile framework is preferred.
• Experience with multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments.
•    Experience with structured design, development and implementation of new and established computing architectures.