Senior Sustainability Data Scientist

Job Description

Microsoft s mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more, and we believe this mission has never been more important. It guides work across the company to recognize the enormous opportunity and responsibility to ensure that the technology we create benefits everyone on the planet, as well as benefiting the planet itself. To fulfill this mission, we are looking for an individual that is passionate about our planet and Sustainability Product Innovation. Microsoft is committed to a more sustainable future backed by a $1B planned spend and carbon emission goals that are unparalleled in the industry. This work will include synthesizing data across a variety of environmental disciplines and leverage data science to recommend, guide Microsoft in its ambition and help millions of customers and partners of Microsoft to achieve their sustainability goals. This new role will be an integral part of a new team dedicated to internal and external stakeholder engagement on sustainability. As part of the Cloud Supply Chain Sustainability (CSCS) team in Azure, we are at the heart of Microsoft s cloud strategy. This new team is eager to deliver a sustainability platform for our customers & partners by combining science-based approach to climate change with strong engineering culture of delivering platforms and services on Azure using the latest technologies in machine learning, the Internet of Things. The candidate will be responsible for delivering sustainability data platform that spans structured, unstructured data from heterogenous sources, analytics, insights and recommendations on Azure-hosted cloud services and mobile devices with enterprise scale and security that organizations have come to expect from Microsoft. This is an excellent opportunity to work on a large technology stack, in an open and diverse environment, tackling big and complex challenges, and collaborating with a variety of partners and stakeholders to define the future of sustainability solutions. You will be delivering results through innovation and persistence when similar candidates have given up.

• Lead a team of engineers or data scientists to deliver a sustainability data platform, to collect, organize, and analyze data from multiple environmental sources, telemetry systems, organize them so that they can be consumed though a variety of programmatic and non-programmatic interfaces.
• Deliver sustainability platform to service both internal and external customers at scale across technical and non-technical audiences, though self-service experiences, web applications, backed by robust data & ML platforms that are secure, automated, and efficiently managed.
• Help create inter-operability frameworks and standards that allow easy communication of sustainability data across various systems.
• Develop recommendation systems on how to best achieve sustainability goals and deliver them through the Azure portal or equivalent experiences.
• Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring for the team.

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• 1-2 years of experience as a team lead in delivering cloud services using Microsoft cloud technologies.
• 8+ years of software design and programming experience with languages like C/C++/C#/Java/Python required.
• 4+ years of experience developing applications in the cloud using technologies such as SQL, Kusto, Databricks, Azure ML, Spark etc.
• Candidate would be hypothesis driven, with a passion for data and a bias for action.
• Candidate should be experienced in framing and participating in data-driven business decisions, including measuring, and evaluating outcomes.
• Candidate must be able to communicate complex ideas and concepts to leadership and deliver results.
• Candidate must be comfortable in manipulating and analyzing complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems.
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, and meet demanding deadlines.
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience

Preferred

• Experience that spans the full software/service delivery lifecycle SW engineering, Program Management and Data Science/Engineering.
• Experience in delivering insights through data science, AI, or machine learning techniques. E.g., neural networks for NLP, computer vision, etc., random forests and other supervised methods, clustering, PCA, etc.
• 6-8 years of Software Engineering, Data Engineering / Data Science
• 4+ years of experience shipping cloud services
• Bachelors or higher degrees in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or related disciplines.

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Keyskills :
climate changecomputer sciencedata sciencecomputer visionmobile devicessqlmachine learningsupply chainsoftware designneural networkspythondata analysisweb applicationsanalytics