Sr Mgr Data Science

$111,480 - $148,630/Yr

Lumen Technologies - Denver, CO

Full-time - Senior

Denver, CO

Telecommunications

About the position

The Sr Mgr Data Science role at Lumen involves leading a data science team to identify investment opportunities and optimize capital allocation through data science and analytics. The position requires collaboration across various departments to implement data-driven projects from ideation to production, ensuring alignment with stakeholders and transitioning models to the software development team as necessary.

Responsibilities

• Structure, plan, and lead data science projects; and suggest project follow-on opportunities
• Partner with colleagues in Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and IT to collect data, generate hypotheses, review analysis results, and quantify business benefits
• Identify and create fundamental algorithms that can be leveraged across multiple projects
• Manage direct reports as a player coach
• Prepare and present project results to senior leadership.

Requirements

• Demonstrated leadership skills to hire, develop, and motivate technical team members
• Fluent in data fundamentals: SQL, data manipulation using a procedural language, statistics, experimentation, and modeling
• Experience with software development: object-oriented languages, version control, automated testing, and deployment environments
• Background in statistics and the business application of probability distributions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills on quantitative topics for a variety of audiences.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, physics, or another quantitative field
• 3+ years of experience working with and leading quantitative/technical projects and professionals
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience managing teams
• 10+ years of overall experience.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Voluntary lifestyle benefits
• Short-term incentives or sales compensation
• Long-term incentive eligibility for Director and VP positions
• Comprehensive benefits package enhancing physical, mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing.