Oliver Wyman - Sr. Lead Data Scientist or Principal Data Scientist

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Boston Chicago New York Dallas Toronto Montreal

Lead Data Scientist

WHO WE ARE

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 50 cities across 30 countries Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy finance operations technology risk management and organizational transformation. Our 4000 professionals help clients optimize their business improve their IT operations and risk profile and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Our professionals see what others dont challenge conventional thinking and consistently deliver innovative customized solutions. As a result we have a tangible impact on clients top and bottom lines. Our clients are the CEOs and executive teams of the top Global 1000 companies.

PRACTICE OVERVIEW

At Oliver Wyman Digital we partner with clients to deliver breakthrough outcomes for their toughest digital challenges.

We blend the power of digital technology with deep industry expertise to tackle disruption and create impact. By building strong capabilities and culture we accelerate and embed digital transformation. Our people cocreate and grow customerfocused solutions that win. We modernize technology and harness value from data and analytics. We build resilience so our clients are ready for tomorrows risks and can optimize operations for the future. Above all we work collaboratively with our clients leaders employees stakeholders and customers to jointly define design and achieve lasting results.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Our clients drive our projects and no two OW Digital projects are the same. Youll be working with varied and diverse teams to deliver unique and unprecedented products across industries. As a Lead Data Scientist you are primarily responsible for managing technical projects including data engineering model selection and design and infrastructure deployment in both internal and client environments. We want and expect our people to develop deep expertise in a particular industry (financial services health and life sciences etc.) but you should be comfortable developing methods and selecting approaches based on a combination of first principles thinking curiosity and your prebuilt foundations of software engineering and development. As a Data Scientist you will work alongside Oliver Wyman partners in the Digital and other practice groups engage directly with clients to understand their business challenges and craft appropriate solutions to be delivered through collaboration with other OW Digital specialists and consultants.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Exploring data building models and evaluating solution performance to resolve core business problems
• Explaining refining and collaborating with stakeholders through the journey of model building
• Keeping up with your domains state of the art & developing familiarity with emerging modelling and data engineering methodologies
• Advocating application of best practices in modelling code hygiene and data engineering
• Leading the development of proprietary statistical techniques algorithms or analytical tools on projects and asset development
• Working with Partners and Principals to shape proposals that leverage our data science and engineering capabilities

YOUR EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

You are a wellrounded technologist who brings a wealth of realworld experience and:

• Technical background in computer science data science machine learning artificial intelligence statistics or other quantitative and computational science
• Compelling track record of designing and deploying largescale technical solutions which deliver tangible ongoing value including:
  • Building and deploying robust complex production systems that implement modern data science methods at scale including supervised learning (regression and classification with linear and nonlinear methods) and unsupervised learning (clustering matrix factorization methods outlier detection etc.)
  • Leveraging cloudbased infrastructureascode (CloudFormation Bicep Terraform etc.) to minimize deployment toil and enabling solutions to be deployed across environments quickly and repeatably
  • Demonstrating comfort and poise in environments where large projects are timeboxed and therefore consequential design decisions may need to be made and acted upon rapidly
• Demonstrated fluency in modern programming languages for data science (i.e. at least Python other expertise welcome) covering the full ML lifecycle (e.g. data storage feature engineering model persistence model inference and observability) using opensource libraries including:
  • Knowledge of one or more machine learning frameworks including but not limited to: ScikitLearn TensorFlow PyTorch MxNet ONNX etc.
  • Familiarity with the architecture performance characteristics and limitations of modern storage and computational frameworks with cloudfirst considerations for Azure and AWS particularly welcome
  • A history of compelling side projects or contributions to the OpenSource community is valued but not required
• Solid theoretical grounding in the mathematical core of the major ideas in data science:
  • Deep understanding of a class of modelling or analytical techniques (e.g. Bayesian modeling timeseries forecasting etc.)
  • Fluency in the mathematical principles and generalizations of data science e.g. Statistics Linear Algebra and Vector Calculus
• Experience presenting at highimpact data science conferences and solid connections to the data science community (e.g. via meetups continuing relationships with academics etc.) is highly valued
• Interest/background in Financial Services and capital markets in particular Healthcare and Life Sciences Consumer Retail Energy or Transportation industries

YOUR ATTRIBUTES

Our team comprises all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds. We dont care whether youre loud or quiet funny or serious introverted or extroverted. We do however ask that you have:

• An undergraduate or advanced degree from a top academic program
• A genuine passion for technology and solving problems
• A pragmatic approach to solutioning and delivery
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• A clear commitment to creating impactful solutions that solve our clients problems
• The ability to work fluidly and respectfully with our incredibly talented team
• Willingness to travel for targeted client and/or internal stakeholder meetings

OUR VALUES & CULTURE

Were serious about making OW Digital a rewarding enjoyable and balanced place to work.

• Rewarding work
  Weve worked hard to earn our reputation for high quality work. That reputation allows us to work with major brands at all levels on incredibly exciting projects. Combine that with Oliver Wymans status as one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For and you get a rewarding combination of challenge support and recognition.
• Progressive employment
  Flat organizational structures resolute I&D values and a commitment to rewarding good work make for a progression path truly based on merit. A menu of healthcare options 401k matching and a culture of continuous improvement means your work gets more rewarding over time.
• Enjoyable days
  We want our team members to build a career hereand to be happy. That makes us serious about caring for mentoring developing and sponsoring each other.
  This commitment also leads to opportunities for social impact and community work on company time.
• Balanced lives
  Our work is demanding and we want you to have the best worklife balance you can.

Well work with you to accommodate your personal life with flexible hours and the ability to work from home.

HOW TO APPLY

If you like what youve read wed love to hear from you! You can find this and other roles and submit your CV at And please include a short note introducing yourself and what youre looking for.

The application process will include both technical testing and team fit interviews.

Oliver Wyman is an equal opportunity employer.

Our commitment to diversity is genuine deep and growing. Were not perfect but were working hard right now to make our teams balanced representative and diverse.

ABOUT OLIVER WYMAN

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy operations risk management and organization transformation. The firm has more than 6000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business improve their operations and risk profile and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan NYSE: MMC. For more information visit . Follow Oliver Wyman on Twitter @OliverWyman.

Marsh McLennan and its Affiliates are EOEMinority/Female/Disability/Vet/SexualOrientation/Gender Identity employers.

The applicable base salary range for this role is $15000 to $195000.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience skills training location certifications and education and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a casebycase basis.

In addition to the base salary this position may be eligible for performancebased incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits tuition assistance 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.