Job Description

Our entrepreneurial roots and maverick mentality, coupled with the resources and backing of the #1 home improvement retailer in the world, The Home Depot Canada is a unique opportunity for you to become part of a transformative retail disrupter as we continue on our mission to provide the best interconnected shopping experience to our customers. As part of the rapidly growing and highly capable Analytics team, you will be tasked with absorbing billions of rows of data from dozens of sources, organizing them, visualizing them, and analyzing them to help inform both short- and long-term decision-making, tackle problems and derive insights. The team isn\'t just making monthly reports or rerunning existing statistical models, it\'s doing creative work in an empowering environment with each decision backed by data to support different areas of the customer journey. We need more dreamers, innovators and big thinkers passionate about data and re-imagining the future of retail. Interested in making history with us? If so, apply today to experience what it\'s like to be a part of Analytics at The Home Depot Canada.Position Overview:The Data Scientist will contribute and help develop the analytical infrastructure and computational capabilities that drive decision making and impact the bottom line performance of Home Depot Canada. By partnering with business leaders and leveraging company and industry data, this role will develop predictive systems and algorithms for identifying trends and driving business solutions. This position\'s primary focus is to manipulate large datasets to extract meaningful business information using statistics and machine learning techniques.The successful candidate will be passionate about seeing real world impact of analytics and have a solid understanding of scientific and business needs, as well as the areas of data science that can be transformative and impactful to the retail and eCommerce industry.Position Responsibilities:

• Design and develop algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights
• Establish scalable, efficient processes for large scale data analyses, model development and model implementation
• Present analysis and resulting recommendations to senior management; Leverage data to present a compelling business case to optimize investments and operations
• Collaborate with product management and engineering groups to develop new products and features
• Communicate and educate technical and non-technical employees on analytics and data-driven decision making

• Internal Candidates: Must fulfill minimum time-in-position (1 year) and performance management code requirements (M+, Meets Expectations and Consistently Demonstrates)
• Master\'s in Computer Science, Math or related quantitative field (or BS/BA in Computer Science, Math or related quantitative field)
• 3 years of experience in data mining and statistical analysis, demonstrated ability to identify key insights from data to solve business problems
• Experience using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, regression, properties of distributions, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks
• Experience using statistical and data manipulation languages (e.g. Python, R, SQL)
• Critical thinking, effective written and verbal communication skills

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