Data Practice Lead/Director
Gugu Robotics
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Job Level
About the role
- Modeling & Advanced Analytics: With the help of your team lead design, developing, and deploy predictive and prescriptive models across a variety of domains (e.g., customer behavior, operational efficiency, personalization).
- Data Exploration: Analyze large, complex datasets to extract key insights and translate them into strategic recommendations.
- Communicate findings clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, using compelling data knowledge and visualization.
- Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to identify opportunities and frame data science solutions.
- Partnership & Enablement: Work closely with data engineers, analysts, and software developers to build scalable, data-powered applications.
- Mentor junior data engineers, data architects and data scientists, supporting technical development and scientific rigor.
- Contribute to the development of reusable assets, tools, and processes to increase team velocity and impact.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in data science, statistics, and applied machine learning.
- Understand the skills required to build and lead a data practice team, and be able to hire the appropriate skills to the team.
- Building and deploying Data Mesh architectures.
- Strong experience in AWS tools and infrastructure and cloud AI and data tools.
- Demonstrated success deploying data models into production environments using APIs, pipelines, or ML frameworks.
- Background in quantitative disciplines such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
- Experience with tools such as Databricks, AWS data tools such as SageMaker, Glue etc and Snowflake is essential.
- Experience of Palantir would be an advantage.
- AWS cloud certifications or ML specialization credentials are an advantage.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
data sciencestatisticsapplied machine learningpredictive modelingprescriptive modelingdata explorationdata analysisdata mesh architectureAPI deploymentML frameworks
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringstrategic thinkingtechnical development
Certifications
AWS cloud certificationsML specialization credentials