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The Home Depot

Lead Data Scientist - Pro

The Home Depot

Atlanta, GA · Senior

Listed on The Home Depot’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

A leadership role for an experienced data scientist who designs and implements machine learning solutions while mentoring junior team members across Home Depot's business units. This suits someone with a decade of analytics experience who wants to balance hands-on modeling work with project oversight and strategic data science initiatives.

Our summary, not The Home Depot’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

Required

  • 10+ years in business intelligence, advanced analytics, or AI/ML
  • Advanced analytics, statistics, or business intelligence expertise, preferably in retail
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in quantitative field or related work experience
  • Legal authorization to work in the United States

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or related field
  • Experience designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines across multiple sources
  • Modern scripting language proficiency, preferably Python
  • SQL/BigQuery and Tableau proficiency
  • Statistical techniques for business problem-solving
  • Expertise in optimization, computer vision, recommendation systems, search, or NLP
  • Hands-on experience designing and deploying autonomous AI agents or multi-agent systems
  • RAG architectures, prompt engineering, and LLM function calling experience
  • Experience evaluating and monitoring generative AI models in production
  • Data mining and data analysis experience
  • Training or mentoring experience
  • Experience building agents with Google Gemini ADK or Copilot

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