Manager, Data Scientist (Sales and Marketing Platforms)

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KPMG is currently seeking a Manager, Data Scientist (Sales and Marketing Platforms) to join our Clients and Markets organization.

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on design, coding, and deployment of custom statistical algorithms, marketing lift models, and quasi-experimental frameworks in Python/R to quantify campaign impact and optimize commercial investments
• Build and deploy machine learning models across Databricks and Salesforce, writing custom pipelines in Databricks MLflow/PySpark while configuring and tuning Salesforce Einstein / CRM Analytics ML models and Data Cloud transformations
• Script and engineer AI-driven activation pipelines leveraging modern LLMs (Gemini, Claude), creating automated prompts and APIs to translate complex model outputs into narrative insights and conversational intelligence
• Extract, clean, and engineer complex feature sets directly from raw CRM, digital touchpoint, and Lakehouse data sources, establishing seamless data/model integration between Databricks and Salesforce
• Perform rigorous model validation, back testing, hyperparameter tuning, and code maintenance, ensuring reproducible, high-performance execution across all production workloads; ensure all deployed scripts, models, and GenAI workflows comply with enterprise data governance, security, and responsible AI protocols
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:

• Minimum five years of recent deep, hands-on coding and modeling experience developing, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models in production environments
• Master's degree from an accredited college or university preferred; minimum of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in statistics, data science, computer science, applied mathematics, or a related quantitative field is required
• Expert-level Python and advanced SQL programming skills, with extensive hands-on experience using data science libraries (for example, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyMC, Statsmodels, LightGBM/XGBoost)
• Proven hands-on track record building, training, and tracking models on Databricks (PySpark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Feature Store)
• Hands-on experience developing, integrating, or tuning models within the Salesforce ecosystem (for example, Salesforce Einstein, CRM Analytics / Einstein Discovery, or Salesforce Data Cloud)
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)