Principal Data Scientist

Who You'll Work With

As a modernized technology company, our Slalom Technologists are disrupting the market and bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. We have passion for building strategies, solutions and creative products to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges, innovative minds and emerging technologies.

At Slalom, our Data Science Consultants bring a deep level of analytical and statistical experience to solve our clients' most critical business challenges. We help the world's leading organizations define AI/ML strategies and build scalable machine learning and artificial intelligence products and solutions. Our data scientists construct arguments and give strategic advice to a diverse range of leaders at our clients, our partners and within Slalom itself. As a Data Science Consultant, your focus will be crafting, defining and implementing machine learning and data mining capabilities that help our clients advance their strategies, improve operations and reduce costs.

What You'll Do

• Work with clients to understand and articulate problems and their potential solutions in a data science context
• Design, develop, evaluate and scale unsupervised, supervised and reinforcement machine learning algorithms in the context of solving business problems
• Architect AI/ML solutions in a cloud environment
• Perform ad-hoc analysis in support of client's needs during an engagement
• Automate model performance and ingestion pipelines
• Identify opportunities to apply recent advances in machine learning and optimization and keep up to date with the latest advances in the field

What You'll Bring

• PhD or Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or other relevant discipline
• 5+ years of experience using data to solve problems and answer questions
• Demonstratable experience with common data science toolkits, such as Python, PySpark, R, Weka, NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, SpaCy/Gensim/NLTK etc
• Fluency in a selection of machine learning methods - Clustering, Regression, Decision Trees, Time Series Analysis, Natural Language Processing
• Comfort working with datasets too large for a single computer. Confidence with distributed computing, parallel processing, and map reduce strategies, especially Spark clusters, is desirable
• Confidence in common data science collaboration tools and platforms- Git, BitBucket, DataBricks, Dataiku, Google Cloud AI Platform etc.
• Experience architecting and building solutions using a major cloud platform
• Demonstrable excellence in data-driven storytelling and success in communicating effectively at multiple levels of an organization
• A high degree of curiosity, a passion for growing your own skillset and learning from others and an interest in working in a collaborative and team-oriented environment

About Us

Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In 39 markets around the world, Slalom'steams have autonomy to move fast and do what's right. They are backed byregional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world's top technology providers. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 8,000 employees. Slalom has been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For five years running and is regularly recognized byemployees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com.

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include: meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer additional benefits such as a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veterans status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.