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The Sr 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

+ Scope data science projects

+ 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 and machine learning algorithms

+ 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

Qualifications

Education/Certification:

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

Experience:

+ **4+ years in a data scientist role**

Skills/Abilities:

+ **R and/or Python; statistical analysis and modeling, including linear and generalized linear models; time series analysis and forecasting; machine learning models such as random forest, XGBoost and SVM**

+ **Experience in data mining**

+ **Understanding 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:

+ **5+ years in a data scientist role**

Skills/Abilities:

+ **Spark (in Scala or from R or Python)**

+ **Neural networks, including CNN and RNN architectures**

+ **Natural language processing, including topic modeling, intent & entity extraction and building domain-specific language models**

+ **Building production API’s 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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