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Chief Specialist in Data Examination - Remote Data Analytics & Data Science Leader at Costco

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2025-11-03

Join the Team: Chief Specialist in Data Examination at Costco

Are you a seasoned data analytics and data science leader looking for a new challenge? Do you have a passion for driving business growth through data-driven insights? Look no further than Costco, one of the world's leading retailers, where we are seeking a Chief Specialist in Data Examination to lead our data analytics and data science efforts.

About Costco

Costco is a multinational retailer with a strong presence in the global market. We are committed to providing our customers with high-quality products and services while fostering a culture of innovation, teamwork, and customer satisfaction. Our data analytics and data science team plays a critical role in driving business growth and informing strategic decisions through data-driven insights.

Job Summary

The Chief Specialist in Data Examination at Costco is a senior leadership role that oversees the development and implementation of our data analytics and data science strategy. As a technical leader, you will be responsible for directing the vision, plan, and engineering of our data investigation and detailing landscape. You will lead a team of specialists, provide technical guidance, and foster a culture of continuous learning and development.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leads and coaches a team of specialists, provides technical guidance, sharing best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
  • Sticks to and drives modern software practices through design reviews.
  • Deals with framework configuration through distinct interfaces across various parts, code reviews, utilizing data/telemetry to simply decide.
  • Grows "top-tier" engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the parts are clear-cut and modularized, secure, solid, diagnosable, easily observed, and reusable.
  • Further improves test inclusion for services; sorts out and carries out integration tests; and resolves trouble spots.
  • Guarantees testability, compactness/checking, unwavering reliability, and practicality; and comprehends when code is fit to be shared and conveyed.
  • Centers around business needs through a data-driven approach.
  • Investigates and improves computerization, unwavering reliability, and observing for conveyed items.
  • Sets the essential vision for data examination and announcing, lining up with authoritative objectives.
  • Plans, creates, and streamlines complex data models and announcing structures.
  • Drives the plan and execution of adaptable and effective data investigation and revealing structures.
  • Guarantees the uprightness, security, and execution of data items and revealing arrangements by joining forces with stages, data design, and administration groups.
  • Characterizes and carries out the drawn-out specialized procedure for data examination, consolidating advancements and industry patterns.
  • Keeps awake to-date with arising advances and evaluate their materialness to the association.
  • Teams up with cross-utilitarian groups, including data researchers, business examiners, data engineers, stages specialists, and IT experts, to foster complete data arrangements.
  • Cultivates a cooperative climate that energizes information sharing and expertise improvement.
  • Lays out and upholds data quality principles and best practices.
  • Executes processes for data approval, purifying, and exactness.
  • Assesses and chooses fitting data examination and announcing apparatuses to address the issues of business.
  • Accomplices with designing and advancement groups to make and keep up with documentation for data investigation processes, announcing designs, and data models.
  • Screens the exhibition of data examination and announcing frameworks; and gives specialized authority to drive security and versatility of data items and detailing arrangements.
  • Carries out measures to streamline execution and investigate issues.
  • Gives vital experiences and suggestions in view of data examination to help decision-production at the hierarchical level.
  • Prescribes foundation moves up to help business development and advancing innovation necessities.
  • Utilizes Sky blue services, like Purplish blue SQL DW (Neurotransmitter), ADLS, Sky blue Occasion Center point, Universe, Data bricks, Delta-Lake to improve and accelerate conveyance of our data items and services.
  • Carries out large data and NoSQL arrangements by creating adaptable data handling stages to drive high-esteem bits of knowledge to the association.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need to have:

  • Demonstrated history with no less than 15+ long periods' of active involvement with data examination and announcing jobs.
  • 5+ years' involvement with initiative or senior jobs; showing the capacity to really guide and lead a group.
  • 5+ years' experience working with Cloud advancements, like ADLS, Purplish blue Databricks, Flash, Purplish blue Neural connection, Universe DB, DBT, and other large data innovations.
  • Shown progressed capability in data examination apparatuses, dialects, ML, and systems (e.g., Conos, PowerBI, SQL, Python, R).
  • Capability in data representation apparatuses, for example, Scene, Power BI or comparative devices to successfully convey experiences.
  • Demonstrated ability in working with cloud stages, for example, AWS, Purplish blue or Google Cloud, to designer and execute adaptable and productive data examination arrangements.
  • Inside and out understanding and pragmatic utilization of Lakehouse design standards, joining the best of data lakes and data distribution centers for powerful and adaptable data the board.
  • High level SQL abilities.
  • Strong comprehension of social databases and business data capacity to compose complex SQL inquiries against different data sources.
  • Experience managing high-volume and high-speed data streams, and planning frameworks that can deal with the requests of ongoing or close continuous investigation.
  • Experience in molding the essential vision for data examination and revealing drives inside an association.
  • Effective administration of data examination projects, including arranging, execution, and conveyance.
  • Exhibited capacity to drive development, adjust to arising innovations, and execute industry best practices.
  • Exhibited capacity to assume possession and liability of basic issues and close them to goal.
  • Solid critical thinking and thinking skills.

Preferred Qualifications

We prefer candidates with:

  • A single man's or alternately Graduate degree in Software engineering, Informatics, Data science or related specialized discipline.
  • Pertinent industry confirmations.
  • Experience in retail, producing, online business, store network.

What We Offer

At Costco, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

  • Competitive salary: $160,000 - $230,000 per year
  • Reward and Confined Stock Unit Qualified
  • Comprehensive benefits package, including:
    • Medical, dental, vision, and hearing benefits
    • Pharmacy and social health benefits
    • Employee assistance program
    • Healthcare reimbursement account
    • Dependent care assistance plan
    • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
    • AD&D insurance
    • Additional life insurance
    • 401(k) plan
    • Stock purchase plan for qualified employees

Why Join Costco?

At Costco, we are committed to creating a work environment that is inclusive, diverse, and supportive. We offer opportunities for growth and development, and we encourage our employees to take ownership of their careers. As a leader in the retail industry, we are dedicated to making a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities.

How to Apply

If you are a motivated and experienced data analytics and data science leader looking for a new challenge, please submit your application, including your resume and a cover letter, to [insert contact information]. We look forward to hearing from you!

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