Sr Data Scientist

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Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Science

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Global Finance Data Science Team at J&J is recruiting for a Senior Data Scientist. This position is located in New Brunswick, NJ. 

As a Senior Data Scientist in Global Finance Data Science Team, you will be responsible for delivering data science production processes to a high standard, contributing to products that are consumed and scrutinized by senior leadership.

You will work in a global team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers to advance data science/AI roadmap for J&J’s Global Finance function.

You will help deliver value-added insights and analytics to our finance and business leaders, reduce manual workload through automation, and enhance user-experience.

Project focus area will also include Predictive Sales Forecasting as part of SAP Analytics Cloud reporting capability, taking it from PoC to Production-grade standards.

This includes aligning finance and business needs, input data validations from different source systems, data reconciliation/validations and work on other ongoing enhancements/ad-hoc requests from leadership etc.

You will help in data science projects across their lifecycle: Design/ proof-of-concept (PoC), development, data pipelines and engineering, deployment, adoption by end-users and ongoing enhancements.

The capabilities developed will include predictive financial forecasting, Gen AI, descriptive analytics, data visualization and decision support.

You will need to ensure that PoC’s are put into production-grade with correct amount of automation, data validations and systems/process integration.

This role will involve understanding the needs of business stakeholders and advocating the merits of data-driven analytics to provide viable solutions.

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

· Adopt a highly successful forecasting process and technologies to deliver a monthly sales financial forecast for consumption by senior leaders

· Assessing BI sources to understand the impact of future events on forecast accuracy, developing judgement on how to adjust forecasts.

· Adjust data engineering pipelines for large datasets from finance/ERP systems and automate data science processes.

· Iteratively improve the process and models to solv...