Data & Applied Scientist 2

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C Programming, SQL, Scala Programming, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Algorithms, C# Programming, Common data structures

Job Description

Cloud Computing is the one of the most important initiatives for Microsoft. It is a highly competitive & rapidly growing market and we aim to win it.

The Azure Core Analytics and Insights team is a growing agile data science team tasked with understanding the patterns that impact customers and turning these into strategic assets that drives customer, business and engineering goals.

As a member of our team, you will turn this data into actionable insights that will drive feature improvements. Our vision is to be a balanced team of data science and development skills. If you dream of being able to use data science/applied statistical techniques like: Prediction/Forecasting, anomaly detection, machine learning, expert systems and/or experimentation, then you should talk to us. If you have the drive to help to implement it and see it productized, then you really should talk to us. We are not one of those teams that just builds reports with brilliant insights that no one uses. We are here to make it happen.

Role Objective

We are a full stack data science team and are currently looking for a developer experienced with the use of ML/Statistical methods to join our Platform Analytics team to develop self-learning, self-driving systems that uplevel decision systems to provide customers with top in class cloud experiences. If you have industry experience as a developer, have trained in data science and are looking for a place to grow those skills, apply right now. We want to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and operate new services powered by ML
• Employ machine learning to detect and correlate problems
• Build models, simulation, scalable and automated analytical systems
• Drive improvements to the product design and architecture, leading to increased customer satisfaction
• Lead and collaborate with experts from across the company to advance data science best practices
• Educate and train others on modern application design
• Learn how to build and sustain engagement from all levels of an organization

Qualifications

Required:

• 2 or more years of programming experience (esp. related to data technologies like Python, PERL, Java, C#, etc.)
• 1 or more years of experience using data/ML/AI to impact critical product or business decisions

Preferred:

• A proven track record of collaborating across organizational boundaries and delivering great results
• A Masters degree or equivalent in computer science, machine learning, statistics, math, economics, business or other scientific or quant-focused field

  Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.