Urgent! Principal Data Scientist
Company: Meijer
Location: Grand Rapids
Posted on: June 26, 2025
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Job Description:
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!
The Data Science team at Meijer leads the strategy, development and
integration of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at
Meijer. Data Scientists on the team will drive customer loyalty,
digital conversion, and system efficiencies by delivering
innovative data driven solutions. Through these solutions, the data
scientists drive material business value, mitigating business and
operational risk, and significantly impacts the customer
experience. This role works directly with product development,
merchandising, marketing, operations, ITS, ecommerce, and vendor
partners. The position will lead, consult or oversee multiple
highly complex data science projects/programs/domains that have
significant impacts and require in-depth technical knowledge across
multiple specific architecture disciplines such as technology,
solution, business, or information/data. What You'll Be Doing: -
Deliver against the overall data science strategy to drive in-store
and digital merchandising, marketing, customer loyalty, and
operational performance - Partner with product development to
define requirements which meet system and customer experience needs
for data science projects - Partner with Merchandising, Supply
Chain, Operations and customer insights to understand the journey
that will be improved with the data science deliverables - Build
production ready prototypes for, and iteratively develop,
end-to-end data science pipelines including custom algorithms,
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 MLOps
environment following Safe Agile methodology - You will architect,
design, and lead the development and implementation of machine
learning algorithms and models for a data science capability within
Digital Services, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain and
Operations. - Designs, codes, and implements new industry leading
design patterns in data science, to create the
convention/technique/practice that teams are accountable to follow.
- Foster a culture of innovation by keeping up-to-date with the
latest industry trends and research across data science, AI and
retail. - Mentors data science teams and promotes a culture of
curiosity, accountability, & enthusiasm. - Provides data science
strategy to ensure code modernization and industry standard
patterns for data science. - Provides guidance to development teams
within domain (Commerce, Services or Mobile). - Leads
non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security, reliability,
performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability related to
data science. - Promotes the implementation of new technology,
solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency,
effectiveness, and value delivered to customers. - Proactively
identify data driven solutions for strategic cross-functional
initiatives, develop and present business cases, and gain
stakeholder alignment of solution - Responsible to define, document
& follow best practices & approve for ML/AI development at Meijer -
Own communication with data consumers (internal and external) to
ensure they understand the data science products, have the proper
training, and are following the best practices in application of
data science products - Define and analyze Key Performance
Indicators to monitor the usage, adoption, health and value of the
data products - Identify and scope, in conjunction with IT, the
architecture of systems and environment needs to ensure that data
science systems can deliver against strategy - Build and 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 Data Science, Computer Science,
Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field -
Certifications: Azure Data Science Associate, Azure AI, Safe Agile
- 8 years of relevant data science experience in an applied role –
preferable w/in retail, logistics, supply chain or CPG with a focus
on NLP and AI - Advanced and hands on experience using: Python,
Databricks, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Service, Ads Data Hub,
BIQuery, SAS, R, SQL, PySpark, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit Learn,
TensorFlow, PyTorch, AutoTS, Prophet, NLTK - Experience with Azure
Cloud technologies including Azure DevOps, Azure Synapse, MLOps,
GitHub - Solid 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 -
Developed efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex
business problems - Technical team leadership experience. -
Experience in Scaled Agile framework is preferred. - Proactive and
action oriented - Ability to collaborate with, and present to
internal and external partners - Experience in the retail industry
or in a production/service environment is preferred.
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