Microsoft Senior Data Scientist 

United States, Washington 

561625047

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years customer-facing, project delivery, professional services, and/or consulting experience centered around enterprise product and feature building.
• 3+ years leveraging the practical uses of statistics (i.e. experimentation, sampling).
• Experience with large-scale computing systems like Hadoop, MapReduce, and/or similar systems.
• 3+ years of experience in SQL and R or Python.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years with leveraging passion for & understanding the need to deliver the right business impact by working with stakeholders to turn business problems into data analysis questions and unearthing deep insights from data.
• Have a track record of innovative thinking and problem-solving skills using Big Data.
• Be self-driven and show the ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 7, 2024.

• Work cross functionally to translate business problems into ones that can be solved and informed by data analysis.
• Have curiosity and apply analytical skills to dive deep into data to find key insights that impact the business.
• Develop models of usage, user behavior & business behavior to make recommendations and influence the product road map.
• Work with other teams across Microsoft to develop key metrics to achieve business outcomes.
• Conduct AB testing. Design, execute and analyze experiments to prove product change attribution.
• Utilize tools like SQL, R, Python to execute analyses.