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# Lead Data Scientist

- **Company:** Inspire Brands, Inc.
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, R (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Apache Spark, Git
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4229e0df098268ee

## About the Role

* Communicate results to c-level management and external stakeholders, able to communicate the impact of the work.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

MINIMUM requirement options:

Master's degree in a STEM field with 4+ years of relevant work experience OR

 * PhD in a STEM field with 3+ years of relevant work experience

PREFERRED:

Master's degree in a STEM field with 5+ years of relevant work experience., * Must demonstrate ability to work independently and proactively on large and complicated advanced analytics projects. Is capable of mentoring and leading training sessions.

 * Must be proficient in at least 3 of the 6 tools: Spark, Python, R, SQL, Git Version Control, AWS/Azure/GCP

## Description

* Lead data scientist across COE/Business

 * Lead the analytical strategy that creates significant industry impact.

 * Manage and leads program of solutions that generate significant Inspire Brands revenue.

 * Architect of multiple innovative solution components leveraging business and technical expertise

 * Lead data scientists across multiple technical domains

 * Design code and solutions that improves productivity of Inspire Brands

 * Contribute to evaluation of external data sources, provide due diligence recommendations.

 * Evaluate the technical work of highly experienced data scientists guiding them on deliverable quality and accuracy.


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