Principal Data Scientist

About the role

As a Principal Data Scientist in our Strategic Analytics & Modeling group, you are the intellectual engine translating complex data into executive-level strategy. Your mission is to deliver the "Deep Intelligence" that shapes our long-term business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of advanced statistical models and rigorous analytical frameworks to solve unique business operations problems.
• Translate complex data into executive-level strategy, crafting the Business Case for our most significant investments.
• Work in a high-maturity environment, leveraging Domino Data Lab and Gurobi to solve our most difficult optimization puzzles.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to generate hypotheses and create analytic models that answer our most impactful business questions.
• Design data science products while thinking strategically about how these models meet the long-term goals of the business.
• Leverage our full tech stack to develop resolutions to complex problems that require creativity, making decisions that directly impact Verizon's bottom line.
• Architect AI-Driven Decision Systems: Design and implement RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems that ground LLMs in proprietary supply chain data to provide accurate, real-time strategic recommendations.
• Optimize Complex Operations: Use Gurobi to solve high-dimensional supply chain constraints, moving beyond simple heuristics to find the mathematically "best" path for our global operations.
• Accelerate with AI-Native Workflows: Utilize advanced coding assistants like Claude Code within VS Code to automate boilerplate and focus your energy on strategic problem-solving.
• Drive Actionable Insights & Influencing: Lead end-to-end analytical projects, moving beyond "what happened" to prescribing solutions and proving the causal ROI of specific business interventions.
• Master Executive Storytelling: Use AI to help synthesize complex model outputs into high-impact narratives and "What-If" simulators that speak the language of the C-suite.
• Partner Across the Ecosystem: Collaborate with our Innovation and Enablement teams to integrate models into a robust, strategically-aligned autonomous ecosystem.
• Ensure Governance & Scalability: Build solutions that are scalable and can be governed to measure model drift and impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Experience as a data scientist, analyst, or statistical modeler.
• Experience using LLMs or coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to enhance productivity and code quality.
• Experience with Google BigQuery, Teradata, Python/R, SQL, Alteryx, and visualization tools like Tableau.
• Even better if you have one or more of the following:
• Degree in business intelligence and analytics, computer science, or mathematics.
• Master’s degree.
• Proven track record of presenting complex technical findings to non-technical senior executives.
• Experience with Data Warehousing or Teradata SQL.
• Knowledge of distributive computing tools, like Hive or Spark.
• Experience with SiteCatalyst/Clickstream.
• Experience with programming languages, like Java or Scala.

Qualifications

• Experience with LLMs or coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to enhance productivity and code quality.
• Experience with Google BigQuery, Teradata, Python/R, SQL, Alteryx, and visualization tools like Tableau.
• Experience with Data Warehousing or Teradata SQL.
• Knowledge of distributive computing tools, like Hive or Spark.
• Experience with SiteCatalyst/Clickstream.
• Experience with programming languages, like Java or Scala.

Skills

• Technical depth to build a complex model from scratch.
• Business acumen to know when an explainable model is the more powerful choice for a stakeholder.
• Thrive on the challenge of influencing a "room full of skeptics" with data-backed conviction.

Benefits & Compensation

• Health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance.
• Award-winning total rewards package including a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance.
• Premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc.
• Up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service.
• Annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $120,500.00 - $231,000.00.