Staff Data Scientist

The Staff Data Scientist will translate business problems and opportunities into data science projects. Conduct data analysis and build machine learning models for internal and client-facing applications. Present findings to key stakeholders. Deploy production models. This position will work closely with software development to provide valuable insight to improve business operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Meet with business leaders to understand business challenges and opportunities, and then frame these as data science problems
• Identify data sources and evaluate suitability for use in analysis and modeling
• Manage complex projects by demonstrating scope of data science projects by defining and planning steps
• Extract data from enterprise systems and clean the data for analysis and modeling
• Conduct analysis to derive insights from data
• Develop visualizations of analytics and models for communicating findings
• Build, test, and validate predictive models
• Put models into production
• Present insights to key business stakeholders
• Mentor junior data scientists
• Identify opportunities to collect data from new sources or improve existing processes to allow for better analysis and modeling
• Implements new or enhanced software designed to access and handle data more efficiently.
• Identifies creative solutions to challenging data science problems, determines project requirements and model requirements, and delivers a solution through the lifecycle to the production environment.

Qualifications

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics or similar quantitative field

Experience:

• 5+ years in a data scientist role

Skills/Abilities:

• R and/or Python; SQL; statistical analysis and modeling, including linear and generalized linear models; time series analysis and forecasting; machine learning models such as random forests, XGBoost, and SVM; Spark (in Scala or from R or Python)
• Natural language processing, including topic modeling, intent & entity extraction, and/or building domain-specific language models.
• Demonstrate a high level of autonomy and ability to produce high quality work with minimal guidance.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate data science findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior and executive leadership.
• Experience monitoring models in production.
• Experience in data mining
• Understanding of machine learning
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Certification:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or similar quantitative field.

Experience:

• 7+ years in a data scientist role

Skills/Abilities:

• Neural networks, including CNN and RNN architectures
• Building production APIs in Flask, FastAPI or similar frameworks
• Experience deploying models in Docker containers on Kubernetes
• Experience deploying models on-device for iOS and Android

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