Lead Data Scientist

About us: As a Fortune 50 company with more than 450,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

About Target Tech: Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com nor the app, they experience the impact of Target’s investments in technology and innovation. We’re the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.

Join our global in-house technology team of more than 5,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects and product managers striving to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests—and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning

About Team: A role with Target Data Science & Engineering means the chance to help develop and manage state of the art predictive algorithms that use data at scale to automate and optimize decisions at scale. Whether you join our Statistics, Optimization or Machine Learning teams, you’ll be challenged to harness Target’s impressive data breadth to build the algorithms that power solutions our partners in in Marketing, Supply Chain Optimization, Network Security and Personalization rely on.

Position overview:

• Develop and deploy scalable deep learning models to improve experience of Target guest

• Architect and implement large-scale AI systems using test-driven development practices

• Build NLP technology for query and document analysis, processing, and understandig

• Create data pipelines for feature/label extraction and generation

• Conduct data analysis to identify opportunities and improve models

• Conduct research to advance the state-of-the-art machine learning and NLP technologies

• Contributing to the operations/building of AI pipelines

• Adopting Target's infrastructural platforms and operationalize tools and systems around them

• Mentor and partner with other engineers to develop software that meets business needs

• Follow agile methodology for software development and technical documentation

• Innovate constantly and keep systems up to date with current technologies

About you: 

• 4-year degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent experience 

• MS in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or equivalent work or industry experience 

• 6+ years of experience in end-to-end application development, data exploration, data pipelining, API design, optimization of model latency 

• 2 plus years of experience deploying Machine Learning algorithms into production environments - including model and system monitoring and troubleshooting 

• Highly proficient programming in Java/ Scala and/ or Python 

• Good understanding of Big Data tech - specifically Hadoop, Kafka, Spark 

• Solid understanding of data analysis techniques, including data cleaning, preprocessing, and visualization

• Demonstrated ability collaborating with data scientists, software engineers and product managers to understand the business requirements and translate to machine learning solutions at scale 

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly tell data driven stories through appropriate visualizations, graphs, and narratives 

• Self-driven and results oriented - able to meet tight timelines 

Know More About Us Here:

• Life at Target- https://india.target.com/

• Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits

• Follow us on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/company/target/

• Target Tech- https://tech.target.com/