Data Scientist Director

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C Programming, SQL

Job Description

Leads a team of people who design, develop and program methods, processes, and systems to consolidate and analyze unstructured, diverse “big data” sources to generate actionable insights and solutions for client services and product enhancement.

Plans, manages, and controls the activities of a team that interacts with product and service teams to identify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments. Brings expertise or identifies subject matter experts in an effort to integrate and evaluate large datasets from multiple disparate sources. Advises business groups by providing strategic direction to initiative prioritization, integration and resource application. Ensures that policies and procedures align with corporate vision. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel ensuring efficient operation of the function.

Assists in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives. Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met. Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations is important. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Attention to detail and ability to multitask. Ability to travel as needed. Demonstrated leaderships skills. BA/BS degree or equivalent. Advanced degree desirable.

Responsibilities

About Oracle Advertising

On the cutting edge of digital advertising, Oracle provides activation and measurement solutions that help the biggest advertisers and most active social media platforms create and complete plans, and measure outcomes.

About the Opportunity

We are looking for a Director to start and own the new AI/ML solutions team at Oracle Advertising. Oracle Advertising products are made possible because of extensive data sets, high engineering standards, and sophisticated data science. We are looking for a leader who discover/invents new possibilities and has passion for crafting new things. The leader should be able to bring lots of realistic optimism to the team.

This AI/ML team will:

• Keep Oracle Advertising products future ready and enhance its leadership position by solving emerging challenges in the AdTech space.
• Create new ideas and techniques to leverage the extensive data sets.
• Look for opportunities on improving existing processes.

Role

• To build/lead/cultivate an extraordinary AI/ML team.
• Understand the products, processes and propose sophisticated AI/ML & statistical methods to tackle challenges.
• Innovate to come up with futuristic products. Try new ideas and be agile to pivot if required.
• Find opportunities to apply AI/ML in existing systems.
• Think big and break things down to practical results.
• Be creative to overcome challenges by being a positive leader.
• Work with various other engineering and data science team to achieve the goals.
• Excellent leadership & management skills.
• Job duties are varied and sophisticated, using independent judgment.

Prerequisites

• MS/PhD in ML/Statistics/CS or related field emphasizing AI/ML skills.
• Minimum 5 years of managing AI/ML team as people manager
• At least 12 years of hands-on experience in software development or AI/ML development
• Deep understanding of AI/ML domain.
• Exposure to big data platforms, databases, Python, and cloud development experience.
• Experience in leveraging AI/ML cloud platforms.
• Ability to build a team from scratch.