Business Analyst - Forecasting & Optimization

Our Client is looking for a smart data engineers to work on our next-generation data mining and forecasting platform. This role entails writing production quality code and not just building prototypes. The role involves working with business analysts and research scientists to build production quality innovative forecasting and optimization solutions for online advertising; building models and algorithms to solve challenging problems such as estimating the click-through-rate of ads, estimating the cost of ad impressions, estimating the supply of different types of impressions, classifying web pages and web sites, improving online auctions, and so forth; and processing terabytes of data to extract insights using data mining, statistics, and machine learning techniques.

Responsibilities:

- Work closely with Research scientist in building predictive models based on millions of ad transactions.

- Build and Deploy into production statistical methods for finding structure in large data sets

- Design A/B tests to determine effectiveness of various strategies.

- Define complex SQL and other data extraction schemes to gather and filter needed data.

- Mining large (terabyte scale) data sets to obtain actionable business insights or to explain business patterns

- Develop, train, educate others in Statistical Sciences and other technical disciplines in research and business on the use of data mining methods and tools.

Desired Skills & Experience:

- BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field

- Strong programming skills. Experience in developing production quality code is a must

- Deep and broad knowledge of data mining methods and tools

- Able to reduce problem to mathematical/statistical questions/hypotheses that can be answered through data mining

- Strong ability in data modeling by using machine learning techniques

- Database experience required

- Self-management skills with a focus on results for timely and accurate completion of competing deliverables

- Prior experience in advertising industry is a plus

If you believe that you are the right person for the role please send your word formatted resume