Senior Data Scientist

Your role and responsibilities

Senior Data Scientist, IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY and various unanticipated client sites throughout the US (Up to 100% telecommuting permitted):

• Identify use cases leveraging data science and machine learning and break them down into development steps for junior data scientists.
• Lead the team to perform exploratory data analysis using open-source tools and proprietary solutions.
• Work closely with clients and project managers on the definition of phases, tasks, outputs highlighting the role of business and data understanding, preparation, modeling, evaluation, and deployment for analytic projects.
• Perform data selection, imputation, feature generation and transformations, merging and reformatting as needed.
• Work with the team on best approach for the use case and training, testing, and validating a wide variety of machine learning algorithms and models.
• Embed model monitoring and result explainability into machine learning solutions to enhance the models' trust and transparency to make data science results consumable by non-data professionals.
• Lead strategy discussions and help to design and develop a solution that meets client goals and outcomes as well as debug, troubleshoot, design and implement solutions to complex technical issues.
• Leverage in predictive modeling, optimization, and/or machine learning analytics techniques using tools/programming languages including Spark as well as ML Deployment capabilities like Docker, Container, Microservices, Kubernetes within a Big data-enabled environment.
• Implement new, highly scalable platform components and tools leveraging machine learning and deep learning models to solve real-world problems in areas such as speech recognition, natural language processing and time series predictions.
• Build reports and dashboards for analytics or data science within the Medicare/Medicaid, healthcare and life sciences sectors as well as perform requirements gathering on Medicare data.
• Utilize: Python, R, Statistical modeling, Machine Learning modeling, GitHub, ETL, Power BI/Tableau, Snowflake, and SQL.

Required: Master's degree or equivalent in Data Science or related (employer will accept a Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years of progressive experience in lieu of a Master's degree) and one (1) year of experience as a Data Scientist or related. One (1) year of experience must include utilizing Python, R, Statistical modeling, Machine Learning modeling, GitHub, ETL, Power BI/Tableau, Snowflake, and SQL. $170998 to $212000 per year. Full time. V158.

Required education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Master's degree or equivalent in Data Science or related (employer will accept a Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years of progressive experience in lieu of a Master's degree) and one (1) year of experience as a Data Scientist or related. One (1) year of experience must include utilizing Python, R, Statistical modeling, Machine Learning modeling, GitHub, ETL, Power BI/Tableau, Snowflake, and SQL.

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Client-provided location(s): Westchester, NY

Job ID: IBM-73040

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-11-12T18:49:42