Senior Data Scientist

Fincantieri Marine Group has an opening for a Senior Data Scientist in the IS Department at our Marinette, WI location.

Fincantieri Marine Group is a main subsidiary of Fincantieri, a global organization with 20 shipyards across the world, a workforce of twenty thousand people and a mission to be world leaders in all segments that demand the very best in marine solutions. We strive to be the shipbuilder of choice in safety, quality, value and dependability by offering innovative and competitive maritime solutions tailored to our customers' needs.

Life at FMG

Fincantieri Marine Group has career opportunities at our three Wisconsin-based shipyards located at Marinette, Sturgeon Bay, and Green Bay, and our headquarters in Washington, D.C. We offer competitive wages, exceptional benefits with excellent premiums, and ample opportunities for advancement. And our large backlog provides the opportunity for long-term job security.

We are convinced that real change comes from the people who advocate it: people who are committed, dedicated and passionate about what they do help create the Company's future, the future of the sea, and their own future. We welcome those who thrive in a fast paced environment and aspire to develop, grow, and leave their mark on our shipbuilding history dating back more than 230 years.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Data Scientist to join our IT team. In this role, you will drive the evolution and optimization of FMG's data strategies along with providing advanced analytical support to various departments across the organization, ensuring the effective use of data-driven insights to inform business decisions. You will also mentor junior data scientists, lead analytical projects, and serve as a key escalation point for complex data-related issues.

The Team

You will be part of the "Analytics & AI" function within the IT area, with responsibilities for:

• Ensuring the prioritization, prototyping, and scalability of needs in Analytics, Data Science, and AI;
• Regulating the industrialization of use cases, the lifecycle of models, and end-to-end technological evolution;
• Ensuring that the development of solutions in Analytics and AI conforms to security and infrastructure constraints;
• Exploring and evolving solutions and methodologies in the fields of Analytics, AI, Optimization, and Advanced Visualization.

What you will do

Reporting directly to the team leader:

• You will collaborate with business functions, exploring business opportunities to translate into use cases and understand how and if AI can be applied to achieve greater and faster business growth.
• You will analyze and solve optimization problems, develop predictive models in a complex and heterogeneous context, utilizing Machine Learning methodologies and neural networks.
• You will manage the lifecycle of models, from prototyping to production deployment.
• You will support the team in adopting innovative solutions and best practices in terms of automation (MLOps / LLMOps) that enhance team efficiency.

Competencies

Fincantieri utilizes basic universal competencies for all employees that are consistent with our strategy, culture and values. Our competencies are intended to provide basic behavioral expectations for all roles and include the following:

• Open Mindset: Identify and analyze potential problems to implement effective solutions, adopting alternative perspectives and methods to improve processes, activities and tasks, embrace change and proactively seek development opportunities to acquire new skills
• Strategic Leadership: Lead toward shared and common goals while promoting a culture of trust, cohesion, follow through, and support, engaging with others and leveraging their peculiarities to successfully create value for the entire organization and promote development
• Accomplishment: Own projects and activities to achieve or exceed objectives, focus on priorities, time and budget constraints, resources and quality, embrace internal and external customer needs, expectations, and requirements to ensure maximum satisfaction
• Social Connection: Work interdependent and enhance collaboration between different teams, actively listen, communicate and share knowledge, embrace diversity and take value from all differences while promoting a culture of acceptance and inclusiveness

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and a minimum of 5 years of experience in Data Science or Machine Learning Engineering is required. In addition, 3 years of other IT experience required, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Ability to apply data-driven methodologies to business problems.
• Proficiency with statistical models and Machine Learning algorithms (classification, clustering, forecasting, recommendation, reinforcement learning) as well as lifecycle management methodologies for models.
• Expertise in data wrangling and preparation techniques: exploratory data analysis, profiling & cleaning, feature selection, feature engineering, text processing.
• Experience with programming languages (Python, SQL), Data Science libraries (Pandas, Scikit-learn, Gradient Boosting, SHAP, PyTorch), and data visualization libraries (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Altair, Power BI).
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem and Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of data analysis tools offered by Microsoft Azure and basic experience in creating dashboards using Power BI.
• Proven experience in utilizing large language models (LLMs) such as GPT and Mistral, and proficiency with frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified AI Practitioner
• AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate
• AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty

Posting Disclaimer

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the work environment, knowledge, skill, ability, and physical demands that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position and should not be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities of the particular position. Other duties may apply. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EEO Statement

Fincantieri Marine Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer and promotes a Drug Free Work Environment. Minorities, Women, Veterans and Disabled are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.