
Lead Data Scientist
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Peoria • Illinois • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $128,470 - $208,770 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Responsible for answering questions regarding the Dealer Parts Orders (DPO) product-based allocation.
- Own the Parts LTF process: system architecture design, analytics solution development, and user training.
- Own the design, development and maintenance of PowerBI dashboards to deliver the forecast analytics solutions.
- Responsible for the integrity of the disaggregation of the S&OP forecast.
- Own the foundational research in leveraging Gen AI LLM models for explainable forecast initiative.
- Lead design and implementation of LLM-powered analytics insight generation to explain forecast miss.
- Own the statistical modelling for calculating forecast confidence intervals for aftermarket parts.
- Responsible for the integrity of the annual business plan disaggregation for DPO.
- Regularly and accurately maintain and update DPO systems and answer all related queries for their assigned allocations.
- Responsible for setting priorities and preparing work plan to complete broadly defined assignments and achieve desired results.
- Responsible for Value Stream Mapping for Business Process analysis and improvement.
- Responsible for Impact key quality goals including Customer Satisfaction, Continuous Improvement, Timeliness, Accuracy, Efficiency, Cost Savings, Process Quality, etc.
Requirements
- Doctoral or Master’s degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Accounting, Statistics, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a closely related field with extensive coursework in mathematical and statistical modeling.
- 5+ years of extensive experience in applying statistical models and methods to solve wide range of industry problems.
- 5+ years of extensive experience in applying statistical tools and techniques for time series analysis and modelling; demonstrating deep understanding of fundamental concepts of time series analysis: stationarity; seasonality; time series decomposition.
- 5+ years of extensive experience in developing end-to-end analytics solutions that span from data pipeline to insights delivery.
- Deep expertise and experience in applying classical statistical modelling methods, tools and techniques for time series forecasting included in the GLM, ARIMA and State Space family of models.
- Deep expertise and experience in contemporary deep learning tools and techniques for time series forecasting included in Transformer family of models with self-attention mechanism.
- Deep understanding of models and methods for Hierarchical time series and forecast reconciliation.
- Extensive experience and proficiency in R, Python and SQL / Snowflake queries
- Experience with AWS Cloud platform and AWS Glue
- Experience with Alteryx and SAS
- Extensive experience with PowerBI for development of reporting dashboards
- Experience with Rshiny / Dash / Streamlit for development of interactive web application for forecast analytics.
- High level of interpersonal skills and excellent communication and storytelling skills
- Experience in Value Stream Mapping for Business Process analysis and improvement.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
statistical modelingtime series analysisdata pipeline developmentforecast reconciliationGLMARIMAState Space modelsTransformer modelsRPython
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsstorytelling skillsleadershiporganizational skills