Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with the Kroger Family of Companies (i.e. H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status)

You will be joining a team of data scientists operating within the PL&S at 84.51°. Our team partners across multiple portfolios, including Our Brands, Kroger Personal Finance, and the Kroger Enterprise Marketing organization, to support media strategy & execution, targeting, measurement, and enterprise level marketing initiatives.

We work closely with the Our Brands and Kroger Personal Finance teams to plan, execute and measure targeted media and deliver insights that drive growth and efficiency. The team leads the execution of brand loyalty mailers for the Big 3 Our Brands, with a focus on rewarding high‑brand‑loyal households that drive the greatest business value. We also collaborate with Kroger Marketing to execute and measure activations across a range of initiatives, ensuring data driven insights inform business decisions.

Our team is known for being subject matter experts of KPM processes for Kroger Model and owners of a broad set of analytical and external-facing tools. We solve complex client and customer problems by applying the most appropriate statistical and analytic approaches to answer meaningful business questions. In this role, you will be on the front lines supporting Sales and Account Management partners, while also developing deep expertise in retailer data.

You will work hands-on with large-scale retailer databases and leverage the full suite of 84.51° technical and visualization tools, including Python, SQL, Excel, Power BI, and internal platforms, to deliver timely, relevant, and actionable insights. We expect all data scientists on our team to be deeply engaged in advanced analytics and comfortable working directly with data to drive impact.

Responsibilities:  

• Lead end-to-end analytics and data science projects, managing stakeholders and delivering solutions on time, within scope, and to business objectives.
• Develop a strong understanding of the end-to-end CRM (Our Brands Loyalty Mailer) targeting and measurement process to ensure the timely, accurate delivery of mailers and the generation of actionable insights. 
• Apply optimizations and scientific enhancements in targeting to improve customer engagement and maximize ROI.
• Partner closely with Sales and Account Management to own the analytic relationship for OB, driving engagement and shaping analytical offerings through feedback and insight.
• Translate complex first-party data into clear, actionable customer stories and recommendations that inform media strategy, optimization, and business decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement through stronger measurement methodology, increased automation, and clearer data visualization that leads to more actionable insights.
• Attain deep expertise in 84.51° and KPM data assets, measurement techniques, QA processes, and analytic capabilities, confidently applying them to internal and external business needs.
• Collaborate across data science, product, engineering, and capabilities teams to validate new use cases, assess data quality, and support innovation.
• Mentor and support junior data scientists through onboarding, coaching, and knowledge sharing, while championing best practices across the data science community.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, business analytics, economics, marketing, or related discipline.
• 2+ years of experience in retail, ad technology, digital media, and/or advertising analytics.
• 2+ years of experience in data science, ad technology, digital media, and/or advertising analytics.
• 2+ years of experience in extracting insights from large databases, translating market research into actionable solutions and presenting findings and recommendations to clients.
• 2+ years of experience using advanced algorithms, programming languages (Python, SQL), or technologies in the development of technical analytics solutions, capabilities, and ad hoc analyses.
• Experience working cross-functionally to continuously improve existing solutions based on client feedback and validated demand.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including excellent verbal, written, presentation, and consultation skills.
• Comfortable conveying complex data science techniques and methodological approaches to less technical audiences – both internal and external.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong data visualization and business acumen skills to link analysis to business impact (grocery and/or retail experience is a plus).
• Natural curiosity that welcomes and embraces ambiguity and change, with a willingness to try new things and to fail.
• Excellent attention to detail, organization skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.

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Callibrity is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. This role is a full-time hourly, hybrid position and only candidates within commuting distance to Cincinnati will be considered. 

Callibrity is a developer owned and managed custom software development consulting company that is dedicated to creating quality software using modern technologies and adding unquestionable business value to companies across multiple industries and verticals. We are problem solvers...people who like a challenge and enjoy working with modern tech stacks. We offer an incredibly collaborative culture and enjoy solving complex problems with our clients. If you are looking for a company where you can grow in your career and that values people, transparency, and flexibility we would like to talk to you.

We’re seeking a Software Test Engineer who is diligent, analytical, and passionate about improving product quality from end to end. In this role, you will work closely with our software engineering teams to craft, maintain, and evolve scalable, reliable testing frameworks and processes. You’ll take ownership of test inventory, strengthen test strategies, and help prevent poor user experiences by actively challenging assumptions and identifying quality risks early. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys functional testing, debugging, exploratory testing, and contributing to the broader quality culture of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Work on problems of diverse scope and perform detailed analysis where required
• Take ownership of test coverage, test inventory, and overall test quality
• Independently design, develop, and execute test plans for complex features
• Build and maintain end-to-end test scenarios across multiple product components
• Conduct exploratory and ad-hoc testing without step-by-step guidance
• Troubleshoot and triage product issues, collaborating with engineers and PMs
• Support automation engineers by providing functional insights and test scenarios
• Assist with identifying and diagnosing automation failures
• Build and maintain test environments and test data as needed
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to QA standards and best practices
• Thrive in an environment where there is close interaction among different roles and teams
• Are admired by the client as someone they can count on, regardless of title or seniority

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional testing web applications experience
• Experience with test frameworks, programming languages, and automation tools (Selenium, Jest, JUnit, CodeceptJS, JavaScript)
• Understanding of software development lifecycles, QA methodologies, and testing processes
• Experience testing APIs and working with relational/non-relational databases
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Ability to debug issues and assist in root-cause analysis
• Strong sense of ownership, independence, and accountability
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and modern release pipelines
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or equivalent experience

Benefits of Being a Callibrity Consultant:

• As a consultant, you’re trusted as an advisor — clients look to you not just for implementation, but for guidance, strategic thinking, and leadership.
• Work alongside strong engineering teams and modern technology stacks
• Competitive Pay
• Impactful Work: Help drive application best practices in a respected organization
• Highly collaborative, low-ego environment focused on problem solving
• Meaningful and impactful client-facing work
• “Small company feel” backed by a stable, award-winning organization
• Company Events

Lead API Platform Engineer (Cincinnati / Chicago) P181

About 84.51°

84.51° is a data science and technology company (owned by Kroger) that turns customer data into decisions that improve how people shop. Engineers here work with modern cloud and data tech at meaningful scale, alongside product, data science, and business teams.

The role

We’re hiring a Lead API Platform Engineer to join our Application Delivery team within Platform Engineering. This is an individual contributor (IC) technical lead role, owning the API gateway experience end-to-end — from pre-production through production. You’ll help shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and continuously improve our on-call/escalation rotation — participating and fielding gateway-related production issues when on rotation.

If you meet most—but not all—requirements, we still encourage you to apply.

What you’ll do

• Own our gateway platforms: Maintain and evolve our Kong Enterprise API Gateway and Azure Application Gateway configurations, standards, and best practices—and help design what’s next.
• Strengthen API security: Implement and promote API security standards, including OAuth2, JWT, and SAML, along with access controls and encryption.
• Improve reliability and performance: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize using Datadog. Tune latency, caching behavior, and rate limiting to support high-performing APIs.
• Automate delivery: Build and maintain automation and CI/CD workflows (using GitHub Actions) for gateway deployments and policy/configuration updates.
• Enable great developer experience: Improve how teams build and test APIs by standardizing gateway onboarding, providing self-service patterns, and supporting reliable local development workflows (e.g., local gateway tooling, mock/test routes, and clear “run it locally” docs).
• Shape work for success: define and decompose scope into ready-to-build requirements (clear user stories and acceptance criteria), aligning on delivery standards, and proactively removing blockers to keep execution on track.
• Support production operations: Provide L2/L3 support, participate in an on-call rotation, lead root-cause analysis, and drive permanent fixes.
• Collaborate and document: Partner with development, QA, security, and architecture teams. Create clear documentation, SOPs, and onboarding materials to help teams ship confidently.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree desired) typically in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics or another technically strong program.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating API gateways in production environments (especially Kong)
• Strong API fundamentals (REST, JSON) and security best practices
• Experience working in a public cloud environment, plus solid networking knowledge (DNS, firewalls, load balancers) – Azure preferred but not required
• Comfort scripting and/or coding in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Shell, Java, Node.js)
• Familiarity with DevOps/Agile practices, Docker/Kubernetes/Helm, and Terraform (or other IaC tools)
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative mindset in a fast-moving environment

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SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST (P2408)

SUMMARY:

The Core Science team is responsible for some of our most foundational data science products including enterprise-wide segmentations and store measurement tools. As Senior Data Scientist on the Core Science team, you will build and maintain our new Customer Dimensions and Functional Loyalty. Our team plays a crucial role in building core segmentations that are used across the business in various functions like customer reporting and targeting.

In this role, you will maintain and enhance existing dimensions, support business use of dimensions, build and monitor data quality dashboards, and develop new customer dimensions to expand our view of customers. This includes responding to time-sensitive requests for deep-dive analyses, managing routine processes, and innovation of new segmentations.

You will leverage a diverse technical toolkit including Power BI for dashboard development, GitHub for code management and version control, and PySpark for programming. Additionally, you'll have opportunities to explore the use of embeddings and incorporate AI technologies to enhance our analytical capabilities and create more efficient solutions.

Success in this role requires strong analytical skills and business insights combined with intellectual curiosity and adaptability. We're looking for someone who embraces change, demonstrates enthusiasm for learning new methodologies, and can balance maintaining existing systems while innovating for the future.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Effectively managing projects, tasks and stakeholders to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget and to brief specification while ensuring minimal downtime and maximum utilization.
• Interpreting results and developing actionable recommendations from the data analysis to build relevant customer stories for clients.
• Identifying and implementing artificial intelligence solutions to enhance business processes, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver increased value to stakeholders.
• Quality Assurance of own code and that of team members to ensure the highest quality work is being delivered to our clients.
• Identifying opportunities for standardization & automation of existing solutions and processes to enable 84.51° to realize the maximum potential from our teams.
• Challenging and improving 84.51° analytical capabilities/products.
• Working closely with key internal stakeholders to ensure sound knowledge of client objectives and customer insight, to subsequently design best-in-class solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:

• 2+ years of experience in consulting or professional services
• 2+ years of experience in extracting insights from large databases, translating market research into actionable solutions and presenting findings and recommendations to clients
• 2+ years of experience using advanced algorithms, programming languages, or technologies in the development of technical analytics solutions or capabilities.
• Experience querying data from relational databases using SQL.
• Experience using R, Python, or other similar statistical software to develop analytical solutions.
• Experience with data wrangling, data cleaning and prep, dimensionality reduction.
• Experience with Big Data concepts, tools, and architecture (e.g. Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Spark, Sparkling Water).
• Ability to create computationally efficient solutions.
• Strong academic background in mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics, or similar discipline.
• Data visualization skills and ability to present technical solutions to non-technical audience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong analytical, creative problem-solving and decision making skills
• Strong business acumen; grocery and/or retail experience is a plus.
• Passionate about data, analysis and insights.
• Natural curiosity that welcomes and embraces change and willingness to try new things and to fail, particularly in exploring emerging technologies and AI applications.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.

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Job Summary

This is a hands-on, activity-driven role ideal for someone who is eager to learn, contribute, and grow within a dynamic team responsible for driving sales of all Phoenix Contact products by combining engineering knowledge with strong interpersonal and business skills. The Strategic Account Manager (SAM) plays a key role on the regional sales team by providing leadership and direction in the establishment, development, and growth of assigned Regional Strategic Accounts. This position will carry out responsibilities in all of the following functions and areas: creating strategic plans, communicating direction, implementing corporate business reviews, creating corporate road-maps, expanding relationships (Maintain and develop relationships at all levels of Management, Procurement, Operations, and Quality Assurance, Engineering, Sales, and Estimating/quotations departments), analysis and recommendations, corporate price negotiations, and leading cross-functional teams.

The territory for this role is Ohio, Kentucky & parts of Tennessee. 

Responsibilities

• Meet or exceed sales quotas as established by the RSM and/or Vice President—Field Sales.
• Be proficient in BASE selling skills and implement to build strong customer relationships.
• Lead the charge in development of a strategic plan and implementation of strategic initiatives for regional strategic accounts. The focus includes increasing account share, revenue growth, profitability, building and expanding relationships with major stakeholders, increasing product mix, and expanding the Phoenix Contact brand.
• Develop strategic roadmaps for strategic assigned accounts providing direction and insight on revenue generating locations.
• Develop intimate insight into the customer culture, needs, and supply chain, including key metrics leading to the recommendation of plans, initiatives, and/or corrective actions to provide the highest level of service to the customer’s organization.
• Lead and coordinate established business reviews with the assigned strategic accounts, including monitoring of competitive activity, leading to recommendations to the Phoenix Contact team on areas of improvement.
• Organize and lead cross functional teams with the appropriate members of Phoenix Contact for the purpose of building and maintaining trusting relationships between Phoenix Contact and assigned strategic accounts.
• Support the preparation of proposals, presentations, and sales materials.
• Maintain and update CRM systems with accurate client information. Fully utilize the CRM as a communication, reporting, measurement, and tracking tool to enhance productivity.
• Collaborate with the entire Phoenix Contact team to align efforts, effectively communicate both verbally and written.
• Track and report on business development activities and performance metrics.
• Differentiate Phoenix Contact from other component vendors by building “partner” relationships with customers.
• Be proficient in and drive the use of all sales tools provided to support local markets.
• Work closely with Harrisburg Product teams to aid in the development of field presentations and application notes.
• Proactively utilize all resources and sales tools to maximize productivity, responsiveness, and customer delight.
• Continue personal development through an effective skill-building program as determined by the RSM, Director of Sales, and/or the Harrisburg Training Department.
• Demonstrate technical competence on all products/solutions within the area of focus.
• Provide forecasts and reports to RSM as required.
• Deliver presentations and hands-on demonstrations of Phoenix Contact products, applications, and technology for the purpose of product sales.
• Develop and maintain a working knowledge on all Phoenix Contact products/solutions.
• Qualify and follow up on all opportunities within the assigned strategic accounts.
• Follow up on all quotations within the assigned strategic account portfolio.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in technical discipline preferred and/or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years minimum sales experience in the electronics or industrial automation & controls marketplace.
• Experience working with distribution preferred.
• Excellent networking, and influencing skills needed to communicate at all levels.
• Exhibits high-level interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Successful history in achieving strategic and sales targets.
• Self-motivated with the ability to learn and adapt quickly.

Essential Job Functions

• Must be able to travel via airplane.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and be able to travel via automobile for up to six hours at a time.
• Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
• Must be able to travel overnight 20-25% as dictated by assigned territory.
• Comply with company dress code guidelines.
• Punctuality is required.
• Regular and on-time attendance.

Perks & Benefits

Phoenix Contact offers a generous benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, bonus plan and a generous time off package. There are also a wide variety of additional benefits available including 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave & 10 weeks fully paid paternity leave, auto allowance, life insurance, short & long-term disability, assistance, and more!

Base salary: $112,000 - $152,000. Compensation information is made available in good faith. Phoenix Contact USA reserves the right to adjust ranges based on candidate’s experience, location and internal & external equity.  Additional compensation includes bonus plan and auto allowance.