Data Scientist/Machine Learning Expert - IT

Job Description for a Data Scientist

We are looking for an exceptional data scientist to synthesize and leverage our massive dataset to enhance performance.

- This is a unique opportunity to join a new, multidisciplinary team of creative and passionate individuals destined to change the face of Data Science. We are focused on the company's agenda, and work on high-impact projects utilizing big data analytics and machine learning to improve outcomes.

We're a lean, flat and experimental team combining science and engineering to identify and inject high-value insights into processes at their point of highest impact. The team works in quick iterations, using the techniques and algorithms best suited for solving the challenging problems of Data Science and Machine Learning.

What you'll be doing:

You will advocate, evangelize and build data-fueled products that help our customers improve performance. You'll dig in and become an expert on our data sets. You will provide insight into leading analytic practices, design and lead iterative learning and development cycles, and ultimately produce new and creative analytic solutions that will become part of our core deliverable.

You will work with cross-functional team members to identify and prioritize actionable, high-impact insights across a variety of core business areas. You will lead applied analytic initiatives that are leveraged across the breadth of our solutions. You will research, design, implement and validate cutting-edge algorithms to analyze diverse sources of data to achieve targeted outcomes.

As our data scientist, you will provide expertise on mathematical concepts for the broader applied analytic team and inspire the adoption of advanced analytic and data science across the entire breadth of our organization.

Who we- re looking for:

- You have a Ph.D. or Master's Degree in operations research, applied statistics, data mining, machine learning, physics or a related quantitative discipline. You have a deep understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms.

- With 5+ years of experience delivering world-class data science outcomes, you solve complex analytical problems using quantitative approaches with your unique blend of analytical, mathematical and technical skills.

- You're passionate about asking and answering questions in large data sets, and you are able to communicate that passion to product managers and engineers. You have a keen desire to solve business problems, and live to find patterns and insights within structured and unstructured data. You propose analytic strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of everyone around you.

- You are expert in analyzing large, complex, multi-dimensional datasets with a variety of tools. You are accomplished in the use of statistical analysis environments such as R, MATLAB, SPSS or SAS. You have experience with BI tools such as Tableau and Micro-strategy. You're as comfortable with relational databases as you are with Hadoop-based data mining frameworks. You are familiar with SQL, Python, Java and C/C++.

- You desire a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative engineering environment. You love learning, data, scale and agility. You excel at making complex concepts simple and easy to understand by those around you. You- re driven to show the world the power of applied analytic.