Data Scientist (2024-13574)

Overview:
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

Responsibilities:
POSITION:     Data Scientist

WORK LOCATION: Durham, NC. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the U.S.

 

JOB DUTIES:  Discover, define, and execute data products that deliver value. Gather business requirements; understand complex product, business, and engineering challenges; compose, prioritize, and execute research projects in partnership with other data scientists/analysts/engineers. Deconstruct problems and transform insights into data-backed recommendations. Build scalable data orchestration, transformation, and reporting streams for customer reporting, and a long term 'data analytics stack'. Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery, working with business/engineering teams to identify scope, constraints, dependencies, risks, and opportunities. Communicate status to project team and management. Responsible for corporate metrics to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and intent of all data products within area of ownership. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the U.S. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the U.S.

 

Qualifications:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

 

Primary Requirements:

 

Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field

3 years of experience in a data scientist/engineer-related occupation, including 3 years of experience in each of the following: BI, advanced SQL, scripting using Python and/or R, advanced data visualization, building dashboards, and building data visualizations in PowerBI and/or Tableau

 

Alternative Requirements:

 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field

5 years of progressive, postbaccalaureate experience in a data scientist/engineer-related occupation, including 5 years of experience in each of the following: BI, advanced SQL, scripting using Python and/or R), advanced data visualization, building dashboards, and building data visualizations in PowerBI and/or Tableau

 

Employer will accept any combination of experience, training or education. All experience and skills may be gained concurrently.

About Avalara:
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. 

 

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year. 

 

Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now.  Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

 

We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear.  It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

 

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

 

 

EEO Statement

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.