Data Scientist - Full Time Only

Position Title: Data Scientist

Location: Redmond, WA

Hire Type: Full Time Only  

Salary: Good

Skills

• 5-7 years work related experience. Advanced degree in Computer Science, Applied Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or Operations Research.
• 3 -5 years of development experience in R. Knowledge of ensemble methods and clustering methods such as K-means, Naive Bayes etc.
• Industry experience in Data analytics/BI, Data modeling and visualization, Optimization and statistics.
• Knowledge of Databases with strong working knowledge on SQL and R
• Experience with data manipulation and analysis using Big data technologies like Map Reduce/Hive, Azure ML, Cosmos ML. Knowledge of C#.
• Experience working with big data and real time/near real time analytics and big data platforms.
• Proven experience in data mining/data analysis and statistics (percentiles, median, standard deviation, outliers, distributions). Hands on knowledge and experience in building models (propensity, churn, forecasting, cross-sell, up-sell, clustering, segmentation etc.)

*Any background in basic machine learning is a plus.

• Experience in customer facing interaction is must (Gathering requirements, translating business questions into executable steps)
• Expert with Excel, PowerPoint, PowerPivot, PowerQuery, and other reporting tools.
• Proven technical strength and creativity - the ability to think outside the box for technical solutions.
• Strong cross-group collaboration and communication skills – ability to coordinate deliverables across teams.
• Prior experience with cloud services or cloud data services and/or data analytics projects preferred.
• Technical skills to ask the right questions and find the right answers & willingness to learn new skills. Development / Coding experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive & participate at each stage of Life cycle starts from Data Acquisition to Deployment & Reporting of Statistical and Machine Learning Modelling.
• Required to take full ownership of the Model Development
• Understand business problem, extract/analyze data, provide insights & recommendations
• Generate the Business Insights & Communicate the same to key stake Holders
• Identify and analyze large data sets for data quality, data sufficiency and data integrity etc. to support business decisions.
• Required to provide the Technical support with regards.to. ML Platforms & Cloud technologies, Domain to other team members.
• Should able to come up with tailor made solutions for specific business problems
• Required to prepare detailed technical and process documentation

Desirable Technical Skills

• Preferred experience solving business problems using modeling, text/data mining on large scale real-world business data sets

Mandatory Functional Skills

• Ability to work independently or to manage a virtual team that will research innovative solutions to challenging business problems
• Ability to collaborate with partners and drive analytic projects end to end,
• Superior communication skills, both verbal and written
• Attention to detail and data accuracy

Thanks,

Ajay Singh

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