Job Description

About Lowe\xe2\x80\x99s
Lowe\'s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE\xc2\xae 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where Lowe\'s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe\'s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts.For more information, visit Lowes.com.About Lowe\xe2\x80\x99s India: At Lowe\'s India, we are the enablers who help create an engaging customer experience for our $97 billion home improvement business at Lowe\'s. Our 4000+ associates work across technology, analytics, business operations, finance & accounting, product management, and shared services. We leverage new technologies and find innovative methods to ensure that Lowe\'s has a competitive edge in the market.To know more about Lowe\'s India, visit Lowes.co.inJob Summary
The primary purpose of this role is to provide deep technical leadership in the development of cutting -edge data science, machine learning, and deep learning solutions to solve Lowe\xe2\x80\x99s retail problems at massive scale. This position will provide a wide range of strategic and technical leadership, research, and production ready implementations and solutions collaborating closely with engineering, product management and business partner teams. You will support diverse areas of the home improvement retail business including, but not limited to: predictive modeling; personalization and recommendation, visual search, assortment optimization, pricing and promotion in digital/eCommerce space; advanced computer vision algorithms, Generative AI (LLM, Diffusion) to improve store operations, safety, product data quality, customer shopping experience, associate productivity across 1700+ Lowe\xe2\x80\x99s physical stores, forecasting algorithms to optimize inventory and supply chain management across stores and distribution centers.The individual in this role is an expert in the field and solves highly complex problems that span the entire Data Science Portfolio. Candidate also provides thought leadership to team members and reviews the team\'s work to ensure the right solutions are being implemented using the best practices and defined guidelines.In addition, this role forecasts and ensures business needs are met by evaluating effectiveness of ongoing and new initiatives prior to a problem existing, consults with stake holders soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions and feedback for improving efficiency and effectiveness of solutionsKey Responsibilities

• Leads the execution of projects end to end with full adherence to enterprise project management practices by participating in formal and informal training.
• Maintains expert-level knowledge on industry trends, emerging technologies, and new methodologies and applies it to projects as well as using it to guide team members
• Responsible for influencing, leading the thought process, and defining the appropriate methodology for team members
• Serves as a subject-matter expert in a specific area of specialization as well as a thought leader matters of data science
• Scopes large, complex projects, identifying the right sources, methods, parameters, and procedures to be used; outlines and clarifies expectations with stakeholders
• Leverages deep understanding of statistical techniques and tools, as well as industry best practices, to analyze (or lead the analysis of) data according to the project plan; communicates with stakeholders to provide updates and manage scope
• Prepares final recommendations through effective storytelling and actionable insights for the relevant stakeholders, ensuring solutions are best-in-class, implementable and scalable
• Establishes clear measures of success, and communicates financial and non-financial analysis of benefits to leader
• Recommends process improvement across various functions of the enterprise by researching competitors and benchmarking industry best practices.
• Participates with or serves as a member of advisory and governance boards

Educational qualifications
Bachelors Degree (Required): Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data or Information Science, or related quantitative analytic field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)Doctorate Degree (Preferred): Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data or Information Science, or related quantitative analytic fieldWork Experience

• 8 Years experience in analytics (fewer years may be accepted with a Masters or Doctorate degree)
• 3 Years programming experience (Python, Java, Scala, Rust, etc.) (fewer years may be accepted with a Masters or Doctorate degree)
• 3 Years experience performing predictive analytics at a large scale enterprise
• 3-5 years experience in data science or advanced analytics in industry, Experience using multiple data systems and sources (such as Hadoop, Spark, Aster, Teradata, etc.), Programming experience (Python, Java, Scala, Rust, etc.), Theoretical/foundational understanding of machine learning algorithms

Lowe\'s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

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