Data Scientist

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave 

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Deliver against the overall data science strategy to drive a safe and secure patient experience, marketing, customer loyalty, and operational performance.
• Partner with stakeholders to define requirements which meet system and customer experience needs for data science projects.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand the journey that will be improved with the data science deliverables.
• Build prototypes for, and iteratively develop, end-to-end data science pipelines including custom algorithms, data transformations, statistical models, machine learning and artificial intelligence functions to meet end user needs.
• Partner with product development and technology teams to deploy pipelines into production environment following Safe Agile methodology as required.
• Develop data driven solutions for strategic cross-functional initiatives, develop and present business cases, and gain stakeholder alignment of solution.
• Help to define, document and follow best practices for ML/AI development at Meijer.
• Deliver communication to data consumers to ensure they understand data science products, have the proper training, and are following the best practices in application of data science products.
• Monitor and analyze Key Performance Indicators to ensure the usage, adoption, health and value of data products.
• Partner and communicate with internal teams and IT to ensure the architecture of data and systems are meeting data science team service level needs
• Maintain relationships with key partners, suppliers and industry associations and continue to advance data science capabilities, knowledge and impact
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required

What You'll Bring With You:

• Advanced Degree (MA/MS, PhD) in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Sociology or related quantitative field
• 4+ years of relevant data science experience in an applied role preferable in retail, pharmaceutical, logistics, supply chain or CPG industry.
• Demonstrated strength in using: Python, Databricks, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Service, SQL, PySpark, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch.
• Experience with Azure Cloud technologies: Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, ADLS, and Azure DevOps/MLOps
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, PowerBI Reporting, Semantic Models, Ontology, Copilot
• Experience working with large datasets and developing ML/AI systems such as: natural language processing, speech/text/image recognition, supervised and unsupervised learning models, forecasting and/or econometric time series models
• Proactive, curious and action oriented
• Ability to collaborate with, and present to internal and external partners
• Able to learn company systems, processes and tools, and identify opportunities to improve
• Detail oriented and organized
• Ability to meet production deadlines
• Strong communications, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of intellectual property rights, compliance and enforcement. Appreciation of HIPAA and other personal health or credit information confidentiality.