Senior Director, Data Science (R-16664)

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We are seeking an exceptional Senior Director, Data Science with a proven history of leading teams through complete model operations and implementations at the intersection of analytics, technology, product, and business.

The Senior Director, Data Science role involves acting as a bridge between multiple stakeholders, including Sales, Statistical Modeling, Technology, Product Owners, and D&B's external clients.

The ideal Senior Director, Data Science is a self-motivated individual who will drive all assigned projects forward, ensuring the delivery of top-notch, data-driven analytics solutions to our customers.

Success in this role requires excelling at tackling various business challenges through the application of diverse tools, strategies, algorithms, and programming languages.

We are a team dedicated to supporting and respecting each other, where success is defined by what's best for our customers, colleagues, and Dun & Bradstreet.

• Technical Collaboration
• Collaborate across Data Science during the model / Insight building process on best practices prior implementation for all D&B Standard and Custom Scores.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, technology software engineers, and DevOps teams to streamline the machine learning and LLM powered application lifecycles and optimize AI application performance.
• Thought leadership / tool recommendations for efficiency within the data science function.
• Though leadership and mentoring our Chennai Analytics teams in new methodologies and best practices within Implementations and Monitoring.
• Support Risk, S&MS, Public Sector, Capital Market and GenAi Apps Solutions.

• GenAI Observability & monitoring
• Ability to partner with D&B Data Science and Technology and become a key thought leader, as we continue evolving our GenAI observability & monitoring.
• The individual should be able to quickly get up-to-speed on numerous frameworks and software applications, both from the data governance and technical implementation perspectives.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build rapport with senior stakeholders across Technology, Data Science, Data Governance, Cybersecurity, and Product.
• Comfort with highly technical environments, such as data warehousing, enterprise architecture and software implementations.
• Strong demonstrated experience of driving data engineering performed on very large and diverse datasets, both structured and unstructured.
• Strong capacity planning, sizing and budgeting skills.

• Capital Markets Operations
• Ability to lead data engineering and architecture design for analytics platforms in support of Capital Markets customer-facing initiatives.
• Demonstrated commitment to exceptional customer service in fast-paced and demanding environments and ability to build relationships based on trust and credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Exceptionally strong ability to support custom analytic delivery as necessary and standardize / modernize legacy custom processes.

• MLOps
• Collaborate with data scientists to understand model requirements and deployment constraints.
• Partner with technology teams to design and develop an MLOps architecture that progressively achieves optimal maturity.
• Collaborate with technology and recommend scalable and reliable processes to handle model inference at scale.
• Collaborate with technology to develop containerization and orchestration solutions for model deployment.

• Collaborate with Technology
• Collaborate with technology partners to develop and maintain automated pipelines for model training, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with technology partners and champion CI/CD practices to facilitate rapid and reliable model updates.

• Best Practice Model Reviews, Validations and Product Consumption
• Model review, refactoring, and optimization.
• Models testing, validation and tests automation.
• Champion and collaborate with product on ingesting new scores seamlessly requiring minimal product intervention.
• Enhance Data Presentation: Utilize visual tools such as ESRI software, Power BI, and Tableau to drive dashboard creation and data visualization.

• Other day-day Activities
• Code and test end- to- end Scorecard or Machine Learning model data preparation and scoring flow including model pre and post processing rules (Availability, Override rules).
• Code and test model reason codes logic and create reason commentaries, if applicable.
• Validate the input data element mappings (model development vs production) and perform thorough data input flow test.
• Document Model Technical Specifications.
• Work with Technology Quality Assurance teams to prepare test data and execute scoring engine and model UAT tests.
• Perform post-implementation QA and review audit reports.
• Create audit triggers script for the model input attributes and output score to enable automated model audit and monitoring capability.
• Work with technology partners to create retro scoring capabilities post model implementation.
• Post Implementation support for any inquiries related to the deployed models.
• Automate batch manual jobs to improve the operation efficiency.
• Perform various data collection, predictive analysis and processing on Analytics Data/Score Assets using advanced statistical tools for various custom projects.

• A graduate degree in a quantitative or applied field, such as Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience in Statistics, Operations Research, Mathematics, or related areas with relevant experience.
• Strong data analytics experience with hands-on programming skills in Python, PySpark, R, Java, SQL (10+ years of experience)
• Knowledge of LLM powered application lifecycle (LangSmith) is a major plus.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines orchestration using GitHub Actions, Airflow etc.
• Machine Learning and embeddings, Databricks and cloud-based platforms experience is required.
• Experience with ML Ops best practice.
• Data science model review, run the code refactoring and optimization, containerization, deployment, versioning.
• Experience testing sophisticated GenAi apps is a big plus.
• Strong analytical skill with statistical modeling background is required.
• Strong testing skills - experience in a Quality Assurance organization is highly desirable.
• High level of experience using visualization tools ArcGIS is highly desirable.
• Proven track record of independent thinking & ingenuous approaches to problem solving.
• Ability to brainstorm, exchange, encourage ideas and mentoring in a team environment.
• Ability to demonstrate effective communication and project management skills.

Benefits We Offer

· Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.

· Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.

· Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members. 

· Education assistance and extensive training resources.

· Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.  

· Competitive 401k & Employee Stock Purchase Plan with company matching. 

· Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates.

· Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.

· Learn more about our benefits: http://bit.ly/41Yyc3d.

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