- Company Name
- Restaurant Brands International
- Job Title
- Lead Data Scientist
- Job Description
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Job Title: Lead Data Scientist
Role Summary: Lead design, development, and deployment of enterprise‑wide forecasting and ML infrastructure, enabling accurate, governed predictive insights across sales, labor, inventory, and operational domains.
Expectations: Deliver production‑grade ML pipelines, feature stores, and semantic layers that integrate with RBI’s data ecosystem. Collaborate cross‑functionally to translate business needs into scalable data products, maintain governance, quality, and security standards, and drive adoption of AI‑driven decision making.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and operationalize scalable forecasting pipelines and feature layers for diverse predictive use cases.
- Develop reusable, abstracted ML components that integrate cleanly with existing data workflows.
- Implement best practices for time‑series modeling, experiment tracking, versioned pipelines, and automated drift detection.
- Own data onboarding, transformation, and modeling into Snowflake, designing high‑performance batch and real‑time pipelines.
- Optimize data structures for correctness, scalability, and proper permissioning across business functions.
- Enable semantic and AI layers, ensuring consistent metric definitions, clean datasets, and metadata for natural‑language access.
- Enforce governance, RBAC, documentation, and auditability; manage PII compliance and quality controls.
- Collaborate with Finance, Operations, Marketing, Technology, and Product teams to integrate forecasts into planning and operational workflows.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering with production experience on Snowflake or equivalent cloud warehouse.
- Advanced SQL and data modeling (star/snowflake schemas, semantic modeling, metadata management).
- Proficient in Python; strong experience operationalizing ML workloads in production.
- Expertise in time‑series forecasting, feature engineering, version control, experimentation scaffolding, and drift monitoring.
- Knowledge of ML governance, explainability, and drift‑detection frameworks.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
- Certifications in Snowflake, Data Engineering, or ML Engineering (e.g., SnowPro Core, AWS Certified Data Analytics) are advantageous.