Principal Applied Scientist

Oracle•Nashville, TN

12h•Onsite

About The Position

We are searching for a Principal Applied Scientist to join OCI Planning Strategic Initiative (PSI) team in Nashville, TN this is a critical role in improving operational efficiency, driving cross-functional visibility, and enabling leadership to make data-backed investments and risk-aware decisions. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, analytical individual with strong communication skills to help the organization meet its strategic and financial objectives. Responsibilities will include translating disparate and complex data sets into actionable insights across OCI’s strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate is a subject matter expert in business operations and analytics, with a passion for data and a strong ability to translate complex information into actionable insights. Deep technical leadership to forecasting, scenario modeling, optimization needed to improve planning accuracy, quantify risk, and guide high-stakes capacity and investment decision at OCI scale. This leader will set scientific direction, establish rigorous evaluation and governance, and partner across planning, engineering, and finance to operationalize decision models into repeatable planning processes and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

Demand, growth, and workload forecasting (multi-level)
Develop and improve forecasting models for OCI demand/consumption and key drivers (by region, service, customer segment, shape/SKU)
Build hierarchical approaches (global>region>AD/cluster/service) and reconcile forecasts across levels.
Quantify and communication uncertainty (prediction intervals, scenario ranges) to support planning decisions.
Capacity planning and supply risk modeling
Translate demand forecasts into capacity requirements (compute/storage/network) considering constraints (lead times, redundancy, placement rules)
Model Supply risks and constraints (procurement delays, buildout timelines, utilization targets, failure domains)
Create risk indicators (headroom depletion probability, hotspot detection, time-to-exhaustion
Optimization & Decision Analytics for Planning
Formulate optimization problems to recommend actions (where to add capacity, how to allocate limited supply, prioritization across regions/services
Perform tradeoff analysis across cost, performance, availability, strategic priorities.
Develop scenario tools for “what if” planning (demand shocks, product launches, regional events)
Measurement, back testing, and model governance
Data partnership & Feature/driver engineering
Identify and validate leading indicators (pipeline signals, launches, pricing changes, customer ramp patterns, seasonality, macro factors where allowed)
Improve data quality through anomaly detection, reconciliation, and automated checks.
Explore and research data and answer strategic business questions, with data transformation, statistical analyses, or machine learning methods
Fine-tune and optimize algorithms and models to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance at a high level
Collaborate with data scientists and other stakeholders to understand data needs and develop solutions that meet those needs
Cross-functional influence and communication
Partner with planners, finance/FinOps, capacity engineering and product teams to align on assumptions and actions
Communicate results to exec and operational stakeholders with clear narratives: drivers, uncertainty, risks and recommended mitigations.
Drive adoption-ensure models change planning decisions and improve outcomes.
Metrics and KPI design expertise, including defining the north star and guardrail metrics and ensuring metric definitions are unambiguous, consistent, and actionable.
Basic applied ML understanding, familiarity with model types (classification/regression), evaluation metrics (AUC, precision/recall), and core concepts such as feature engineering, model training, offline/online evaluation, deployment/monitoring and iterative improvement. ML algorithms, feature engineering, model training, offline/online evaluation, deployment/monitoring and iterative model improvement
Basic Data Engineering, including building data pipelines, reliability/SLAs for data, governance/definitions, reporting layers, and operational analytics
Experimentation (A/B testing) experience, including designing experiments, analyzing results, avoiding common pitfalls