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Data Science Practitioner 6527496

Accenture

San Diego, CATemporary$70.36–80.36/hrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$70.36–80.36/hr
Location
San Diego, CA
Schedule
Temporary
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Accenture Flex seeks a Data Scientist to apply statistical and machine learning methods to complex enterprise data, generate actionable insights, and support business transformation for clients. The role includes developing data-driven solutions across business areas and collaborating on scalable deployments. It is a fixed-duration, project-based assignment performed onsite five days a week at a client location in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Data ScienceData AnalysisData MiningStatisticsOperations ResearchExperimental DesignMachine LearningQuantitative AnalysisDistributed ProcessingPythonRScalaCloud Machine Learning FrameworksGCPAzureAWSDistributed Data PipelinesApache SparkApache BeamTechnical Communication

Qualifications

5+ Years Data Science Experience5+ Years Focus Area Experience5+ Years Data Mining Experience5+ Years Programming Language ExperienceHigh School Diploma or GEDMaster's in Quantitative Field

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed-duration project-based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies For Diversity lists.

As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture’s clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today’s biggest business challenges.

As a Data Scientist, you’ll apply innovative statistical and machine learning methods in a scientifically rigorous manner to dive into the largest and most complex data across the enterprise to answer the most difficult questions that are foundational to driving real-world value by offering deep insight into every aspect of the business. In this role, you will have the opportunity to be involved in the most important strategic efforts to provide analytic thought leadership that drives a data-grounded perspective to help client think critically and differently about all aspects of our business to improve our core capabilities and unleash the next generation of customer experiences that will transform the way client operates day-to-day.

  • Applying scientific methods to solve real world business problems using data

  • Utilizing cutting edge statistical and machine learning methods to dig deep into complex data to deliver data driven solutions across all areas of the business including inventory optimization supply chain marketing healthcare cybersecurity, etc.

  • Employing broad and deep knowledge of statistics analytics and machine learning to contribute to and enhance core data science capabilities

  • Mining large structured and unstructured data appropriately to glean actionable insights and to make recommendations on how the data can be used to help solve straightforward business problems

  • Collaborating with other teams to implement and deploy scalable solutions

This is a 100% ONSITE, 5 days a week, role based at the client location in Minneapolis, MN.

Basic Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in data science, data analysis, data mining, or other similar business functions

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in at least one focus area of data science: statistics, operations research, design and analysis of experiments, machine learning, or quantitative analysis

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in data mining skills with ability to leverage distributed processing to scale to big data

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience with at least one data science analytics programming language like Python, R, or Scala

  • High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications

  • Masters degree in a highly quantitative field: Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Economics, Operations Research, etc.

  • Experience using high performance machine learning data mining frameworks on cloud platforms GCP Azure AWS

  • Experience building distributed data processing pipelines (Apache Spark or Apache Beam)

  • Ability to effectively communicate technical information to a wide spectrum of cross functional team members

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 11/22/2026.Accenture Flex offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: Accenture Flex Jobs (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/flexcareers#block-section-total-rewards)

Role Location Hourly Salary RangeCalifornia $70.36 to $80.36Colorado $70.36 to $80.36Connecticut $70.36 to $80.36District of Columbia $70.36 to $80.36Illinois $70.36 to $80.36Maine $70.36 to $80.36Maryland $70.36 to $80.36Massachusetts $70.36 to $80.36Minnesota $70.36 to $80.36New York $70.36 to $80.36New Jersey $70.36 to $80.36Ohio $70.36 to $80.36Virginia $70.36 to $80.36Washington $70.36 to $80.36

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Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

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The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information.

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How this job compares

Set against the 4,830 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$70.36–80.36/hr
  • California median$70–78/hr29 hourly ranges
  • US median$58–75/hr136 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $75.36/hr, is close to the California median midpoint ($75/hr) — in the middle half of Data Scientist hourly ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 809 open Data Scientist jobs in California and 4,830 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Data Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (4,140 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,354 of the 4,830 open Data Scientist jobs (49%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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