Data Scientist
Irving, TX 
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Posted 5 days ago
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Overview Microsoft envisions a world where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envisioning what can be and taking their careers places they simply couldn't anywhere else. This is a world of more possibility, more innovation, more openness, and sky's-the-limit thinking - a secure, cloud-enabled world. The Customer Solutions Area Team is creating and executing sales strategy across the Customer Solution Areas with field teams around the world to enable us to deliver on Microsoft's Mission with our customers. The Business Insights team partners closely with Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy, programs, enablement, global sales, engineering and field teams to generate business insights that influence the shape and direction of our business, sales strategy and accelerate the growth of our business. Our charter spans the breadth of the solution areas, where we design and deliver standardized views of business performance, pipeline health, build predictive analytics and propensity models, analyze productivity trends and competitive threats to surface actionable key business insights. We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist. The selected candidate will question prior assumptions and proactively seek innovative solutions to meet our seller's needs, sales leaders' needs and executive needs - charting the story of the business in a connected way that helps drive the right behaviors from sellers, partners and leaders. The selected candidate will have deep technical depth and experience leveraging statistics, data analysis, data science and visualization to drive business insights that lead to action and successful business outcomes. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities Responsibilities: Business understanding and ImpactLeverages understanding of data science and business to examine a project and consider factors that can influence final outcomes. Documents key business objectives. Effectively communicates business goals in analytical and technical terms. Consistently shares insights with stakeholders.Data Preparation and UnderstandingUnderstands where to acquire data necessary for successful completion of the project plan. Utilizes querying, visualization, and reporting techniques to describe acquired data, including format, quantity, identities, and other surface properties. Collaborates with others to perform data-science experiments using established methodologies, statistics, optimization, and probability theory for general purpose software and statistical packages. Serves as an effective partner in data preparation efforts to Solution Architects and other business stakeholders (Commercial Solution Areas). Adheres to Microsoft's privacy policy related to collecting and preparing data. Identifies data integrity problems.Develop and implement data science solutions that drive actionable insights for the businessCollaborate with stakeholders to design and deliver tailored reporting, analysis, and modeling solutions that address specific business needs. Utilize advanced knowledge in data science, coupled with a solid understanding of business contexts, to evaluate and integrate the latest technologies in reporting, statistical analysis, and machine learning.Business and Research Knowledge/Opportunity IdentificationLearns and understands the current state of the Commercials Solution Areas business, including knowledge of tools, techniques, strategies, and processes that can be utilized to improve process efficiency and performance. Maintains knowledge of current trends within the discipline.OtherBe a hands-on technical lead who can own, drive, and develop insights from conception to release.Be curious and willing to continuously learn about the business. Partner with stakeholders to define the critical insights required to make informed business decisions and sales precision. Continuously evolve the output of this role and ensure business alignment and impact.Learn and understand a broad range of data resources and know when, how, and which to use and which not to at any given time.Demonstrated analytical problem solving with adaptability to manage through ambiguity.Collaboration skills that promote a positive team environment by modeling behavior of continuous learning.Ability to manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from various sources.Evaluate, adapt, and apply advanced data science techniques, including statistical analysis, machine learning, and causal inference, to develop and deliver high-quality and actionable solutions.Design, build, and maintain all business reporting and dashboards, ensure data integrity and accuracy.Embody our culture and values

 

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