Data Science

Utilization / billing
- Security
- Sol Arch 55%
- Tech Cons 73%
- Data Science 50%
- Tech Cons 72%
- CPjM ~40%
- Sol Arch 30%

Do you enjoy solving problems, looking at problems through a different lens, and working closely with customers to innovate new solutions to complex problems? Do you jump with excitement at the opportunity to identify trends and provide unique business solutions? Do you want to join a team where learning about a new technology or solution is part of our work every day?

The Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) Engineering & Architecture Group (EAG) is a global consulting and engineering organization that supports our most complex and leading-edge customer engagements. Driving early-stage deliveries, enhances ISD’s technical capabilities, and partnering with others to develop approaches, innovative solutions, and engineering standards in order to set our sales and delivery teams up for success. Leveraging the principles of model, care, and coach, we provide consistent high-quality customer experience through technical and AI leadership and IP capture centered on delivery truth.

As part of the team, you will be a key leader in the largest Security team in Industry Solutions Organization, learn in a fast paced, live-site focused environment, deliver customer value with everything we do and help protect Microsoft’s enterprise customers.

The job provides an opportunity to:

- Impact on one of the fastest growing teams in Industry Solutions that is critical to the Microsoft Security strategy.
- Be part of a dynamic Security community that will enable you to learn, collaborate, and contribute with the top minds in the industry.

We are looking for someone who is highly customer focused with the right combination of curiosity, technical aptitude, and communication skills to become a Security Delivery Manager in the Security Service Line within the Industry Solutions Organization.

If this sounds like the right environment for you, please join us.

**Responsibilities**:
***Business Understanding and Impact**
- Understands problems facing projects and is able to leverage knowledge of data science to be able to uncover important factors that can influence outcomes on specific products. Describes the primary objectives of the team from a business perspective. Produces a project plan to specify necessary steps required for completion. Assesses current situation for resources, risks, contingencies, requirements, assumptions, and constraints. Coaches less experienced engineers in standards and best practices. Uses his or her understanding of organizational dynamics, interrelationships among teams, schedule constraints, and resource constraints to effectively influence partners to take action on insights. Understands business strategy briefings and articulates data driver strategies for specific industries or cross-industry functions, such as Sales/Marketing, Operations, and new Data Monetization Schemes. Engages business stakeholders to capture and shape their thinking on data-driven methods applicable to their value chain. Leads customer conversations to understand, define, and solve business problems.

**Data Preparation and Understanding**:

- Acquires data necessary for successful completion of the project plan. Proactively detects changes and communicates to senior leads. Develops useable data sets for modeling purposes. Contributes to ethics and privacy policies related to collecting and preparing data by providing updates and suggestions around internal best practices. Contributes to data integrity/cleanliness conversations with customers.

**Modeling and Statistical Analysis**:

- Leverages knowledge of machine learning solutions (e.g., classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, NLP, image recognition, etc.) and individual algorithms (e.g., linear and logistic regression, k-means, gradient boosting, autoregressive integrated moving average [ARIMA], recurrent neutral networks [RNN], long short-term memory [LSTM] networks) to identify the best approach to complete objectives. Understands modeling techniques (e.g., dimensionality reduction, cross-validation, regularization, encoding, assembling, activation functions) and selects the correct approach to prepare data, train and optimize the model, and evaluate the output for statistical and business significance. Understands the risks of data leakage, the bias/variance tradeoff, methodological limitations, etc. Writes all necessary scripts in the appropriate language: T-SQL, U-SQL, KQL, Python, R, etc. Constructs hypotheses, designs controlled experiments, analyzes results using statistical tests, and communicates findings to business stakeholders. Effectively communicates with diverse audiences on data quality issues and initiatives. Understands operational considerations of model deployment, such as performance, scalability, monitoring, maintenance, integration into engineering production system, stability. Develops operational m