Sr Data Scientist

About us: As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 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 a strong understanding of business and operational processes.

• Analyse large datasets to derive insights for business process improvements and solution development.

• Develop optimization-based solutions, mathematical models (probabilistic/deterministic models), predictive models, and implement them in real-world production systems with measurable impact.

• Add new capabilities and features to the simulation framework to reflect the complexities of an evolving supply chain network.

• Develop and deploy modules to run simulations for testing and validating multiple scenarios to evaluate the impact of various inventory purchasing and management strategies.

• Enhance and maintain the simulation environment to enable testing/deploying new features for running custom scenarios.

• Coordinate the analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of issues in models and software.

About You:

• Bachelor's/MS/PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related fields.

• 4+ years of relevant experience.

• Experience in applying Operations Research to solve complex problems in Supply chain or related domain.

• Strong analytical thinking and data visualization skills. Ability to creatively solve business problems and innovate new approaches.

• Experience cleaning, transforming, and analysing large datasets for insights leading to business improvements.

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Hadoop/Hive, Spark.

• Strong experience in JVM-based languages like Java or Kotlin preferred.

• Knowledge of mathematical and statistical concepts, optimization, data structures, algorithms, data analysis, simulations, and visualizations applied to business problems.

• Good working knowledge of machine learning, probability estimation methods, linear programming (integer, real, and mixed integer), stochastic processes, and their applications.

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/