Microsoft Data Scientist - Engineering & Architecture Group

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Job Details

Posted date: Jan 29, 2026

Category: Data Science

Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 50.0%

Work location type: 0 days / week in-office – remote

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

Overview

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. We provide consistent high-quality customer experience through technical and AI leadership and IP capture centred on delivery truth.

Responsibilities

Engage stakeholders to understand business drivers and confidently communicate insights, recommendations, and tradeoffs

Partner with customers to translate complex business problems into data science solutions with clear objectives, assumptions, risks, and success criteria

Work closely with Solution Architects, Consultants, and Data Engineers who will source and prepare data from multiple systems.

Explore and evaluate data quality, integrity, and fitness for purpose, clearly explaining implications to customers.

Design and deliver machine learning solutions covering Generative AI, Agentic solutions, computer vision, speech processing, forecasting, NLP, classification, clustering, reinforcement learning and optimization.

Frame the problem appropriately; and select and apply appropriate algorithms, modelling techniques, and experimental methods to meet client and project requirements

Conduct statistical analysis and controlled experiments, translating findings into measurable business outcomes

Support model testing and validation using test and production data, incorporating customer feedback into improvements

Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy scalable, secure, and reliable models into customer environments

Manage customer expectations on scope, timelines, and outcomes, contributing to strong delivery experiences

Stay current with industry trends and contribute to thought leadership and reusable intellectual property

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Master’s degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a related field and 7+ years of professional data science experience

or

Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a related field and 4+ years of professional data science experience

or

Equivalent practical experience demonstrated through long-term, hands-on delivery of data science solutions

Strong foundation in data science principles, including statistics, machine learning, and analytical modelling

Proven problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex business and technical challenges

Handson experience developing and deploying machine learning and advanced AI solutions to production environments on public cloud platforms

Professional experience working with Generative AI solutions in production environments (beyond pilots or POC /proof of concepts)

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.



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