Sr. Data Scientist
The Home Depot
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req155351
Category – E-Commerce
Apply By – 09/25/2025
Bonus Eligible
401(k) Company Matching
Employee Stock Purchase Program
Company Overview
What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.
Key Responsibilities & Job Description:
- Design and develop algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights.
- Execute tasks with high levels of efficiency and quality. Make appropriate selection, utilization and interpretation of advanced analytical methodologies.
- Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical leaders and business customers/partners.
- Prepare reports, updates and/or presentations related to progress made on a project or solution.
- Clearly communicate impacts of recommendations to drive alignment and appropriate implementation.
- Work with project teams and business partners to determine project goals. Provide direction on prioritization of work and ensure quality of work.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to more junior roles to support their technical competencies.
- Collaborate with managers and team in the distribution of workload and resources.
- Support recruiting and hiring efforts for the team. Leverage extensive business knowledge into solution approach.
- Effectively develop trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams.
- Provide general education on advanced analytics to technical and non-technical business partners.
- Deep understanding of IT needs for the team to be successful in tackling business problems.
- Actively seek out new business opportunities to leverage data science as a competitive advantage.
- Seek further knowledge on key developments within data science, technical skill sets, and additional data sources.
- Participate in the continuous improvement of data science and analytics by developing replicable solutions (for example, codified data products, project documentation, process flowcharts) to ensure solutions are leveraged for future projects.
- Define best practices and develop clear vision for data analysis and model productionalization.
- Contribute to library of reusable algorithms for future use, ensuring developed codes are documented.
Minimum Qualifications:
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computational Science & Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, or a related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.
Requires experience in the following:
1. Python;
2. SQL;
3. Natural Language Processing (NLP);
4. Large Language Models (LLM);
5. Cloud Platform.
Apply By:
09/25/2025
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req155351
Category – E-Commerce
Apply By – 09/25/2025
Role Overview
Key Responsibilities & Job Description:
- Design and develop algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights.
- Execute tasks with high levels of efficiency and quality. Make appropriate selection, utilization and interpretation of advanced analytical methodologies.
- Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical leaders and business customers/partners.
- Prepare reports, updates and/or presentations related to progress made on a project or solution.
- Clearly communicate impacts of recommendations to drive alignment and appropriate implementation.
- Work with project teams and business partners to determine project goals. Provide direction on prioritization of work and ensure quality of work.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to more junior roles to support their technical competencies.
- Collaborate with managers and team in the distribution of workload and resources.
- Support recruiting and hiring efforts for the team. Leverage extensive business knowledge into solution approach.
- Effectively develop trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams.
- Provide general education on advanced analytics to technical and non-technical business partners.
- Deep understanding of IT needs for the team to be successful in tackling business problems.
- Actively seek out new business opportunities to leverage data science as a competitive advantage.
- Seek further knowledge on key developments within data science, technical skill sets, and additional data sources.
- Participate in the continuous improvement of data science and analytics by developing replicable solutions (for example, codified data products, project documentation, process flowcharts) to ensure solutions are leveraged for future projects.
- Define best practices and develop clear vision for data analysis and model productionalization.
- Contribute to library of reusable algorithms for future use, ensuring developed codes are documented.
Minimum Qualifications:
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computational Science & Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, or a related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.
Requires experience in the following:
1. Python;
2. SQL;
3. Natural Language Processing (NLP);
4. Large Language Models (LLM);
5. Cloud Platform.
Hybrid – An associate in a hybrid role blends in-office and remote/virtual working to complete their job duties. An associate may be required to work from a designated Home Depot location on some days, and may work from a virtual/remote location on others. We also refer to this as location – flex.
Learn more about our 4 different work locations. Additional information will be provided during the application process.
As part of the application process for this role, there will be an on-line assessment. The assessment usually takes about 17 minutes to complete. You will be directed to the assessment link immediately after submitting your application. Once you click on the link, you will need to complete it within 72 hours after starting it. You may stop and restart the assessment as many times as you like within the 72-hour time frame.
During the assessment, we’ll ask you questions about your approach to work and various work-related situations. The questions are based on characteristics that are related to performing successfully in hourly roles at The Home Depot, including:
- Professional Experience
- Learning Potential
- Responsibility
- Customer Focus
If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation related to the assessment, or you would like to obtain more information about the assessment, click here to learn more.
Healthcare Options
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