Data & Applied Scientist Manager

Job Description

Microsoft s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.Consider solving for large scale supply chain problems in ever changing and rapidly growing cloud environment. Consider working in a fast-paced infrastructure capacity planning team driving process and modeling innovations that span the entire infrastructure planning lifecycle - capacity planning, supply planning, flow path modeling, inventory modeling, risk modeling and simulations. What do you have - In a nutshell, you have the best Operations Research role bar none.We are part of Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations (MCIO) and our mission is to optimize and deliver industry leading cloud infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft s online services. The organization is responsible for strategy and delivery of the foundational platform for all Microsoft Online Services including demand and capacity forecasting, supply chain, data centers, networking, bandwidth, operations, and incident management.You will be responsible for coming up with creative strategies to optimize inventory in a large and complex supply chain in order to achieve the best experience for our customers at the lowest cost. This position will focus on identifying, building and analyzing opportunities to improve inventory models, postponement strategies, risk models and simulation methods in order to improve prediction of short and long-term capacity planning needs. The successful candidate will be a person who enjoys and excels at diving into data to analyze root causes and implementing long term solutions in systems or processes. This position offers opportunity for immediate impact through model updates in our systems and creation of effective metrics and functionality.The successful candidate will be an industry leading, hands-on Principal Data scientist/Operations Research practitioner with a proven history of driving critical research and operationalizing cutting edge thinking to realize opportunity. The qualified candidate will have experience implementing numerical optimization methods designed for inventory and supply-chain network optimization.

• Own the strategic planning and research initiatives involved with inventory planning, economic modeling, risk modeling and process improvement and sizing up opportunities from new initiatives.
• Build prototypes to demonstrate the benefits from proposed changes to the decision systems and operational processes.Provide analysis using mathematical modeling tools to benchmark existing operations/processes as well as to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Work closely with IT teams in enhancing the prototypes and implementing them in our production environment.
• Effectively communicate with senior management & Partner closely with business and IT groups.

, Required Qualifications:10 + years experience working with real world supply chain problems MS/PhD in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or related area Solid knowledge in inventory planning, network modeling, and mathematical optimization such as linear/nonlinear programming and mixed-integer programming Rich experience to analyze large-scale data by writing SQL queries and scripts (Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.) and the strong ability to conduct statistical analysis, modeling, and prediction Gathering requirements from business users, translating to functional requirements, and coordinating work between technical and business teams Business knowledge to be able to make trade-offs between profitability and relevancePreferred Qualifications:MS/PhD degree in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related area 10 + years experience working with real world supply chain problems Knowledge in the following; theories of optimization including linear programming, mixed-integer programming and network modeling. Publications (or acceptance) in refereed academic journals and invited presentations at preeminent technical conferences in the field. Experience communicating with both technical and business people. Ability to speak at a level appropriate for the audience. Experience applying these skills in both academic teaching environment and a business setting is a plus. Demonstrate ability in delivering business value by implementing the optimization models while integrating with IT systems Experience designing and implementing optimization models for inventory, network design and other characteristics of supply-chain (e.g., staff scheduling, vehicle routing, and facility location). Experience with leveraging such models to provide guidance for strategic and tactical business decision making. Experience implementing models and analysis tools through the use of high-level modeling languages (e.g. R, Matlab). Experience prototyping and developing software in traditional programming languages (C++/ Java/ Python/Perl ) a plus. Proficient with SQL and experience with very large-scale data. The ability to manipulate data by writing scripts (Perl, Ruby etc.).Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Keyskills :
risk modelsnetwork designrisk modelingsupply chainsupply chain planningmicrosoft online servicesdata centersql queriesinfrastructure capacity planning