**Introduction**
As a Data Scientist at IBM, you will help transform our clients' data into tangible business value by analyzing information, communicating outcomes and collaborating on product development.
Work with Best in Class open source and visual tools, along with the most flexible and scalable deployment options.
Whether it's investigating patient trends or weather patterns, you will work to solve real world problems for the industries transforming how we live.
**Your Role and Responsibilities**
Combines deep data and analytics skills with strong business acumen to solve business problems by understanding, preparing, and analyzing data to predict emerging trends and provide recommendations to optimize business results.
Your primary responsibilities include:
- Working with business leaders to solve business problems by understanding, preparing, and analyzing data to predict emerging trends and provide recommendations to optimize business results
- Proposing techniques to improve research quality and team productivity.
- Guiding, training, and advising junior researchers and students, and supporting senior research staff.
- Developing and following standard operating procedures, and adhering to company policies and safety guidelines
- Developing objectives and designing research projects and proposals.
- Formulating and conducting scientific experiments, performing data collection, and analyzing and evaluating test and research results.
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- 1-4 years of experience in an OR scientist role (5-10 years for Senior Data Scientist)
- Deep knowledge of operations research, integer programming, network optimization, large scale optimization, and simulation.
- Experience with Python, software engineering, algorithms, and data structures.
- Experience with commercial solvers including Fico Xpress, Cplex, or Gurobi.
- Experience working with querying large data sets, SQL, PySpark.
- Experience in using statistical analysis software packages
**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Knowledge of research principles, concepts, practices, and methods.
- Knowledge of scientific laboratory research techniques.
- Experience in Travel & Transportation
- Computer literacy and strong mathematical, analytical, and research skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.
**About Business Unit**
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation.
With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world.
Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration.
We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company.
They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers.
The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.
**About IBM**
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain.
Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
**Location Statement**
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal op