Data Scientist - Contract
Sr Data Scientist
The Senior Data Scientist will serve as a SME and as hands-on analyst and utilize appropriate data and models to answer business questions/hypotheses to enhance and expand data-driven business decisions. Partner with Marketing Analytics, Product Management and Digital Marketing to optimize e-commerce and the online experience of our clients.
RESPONSIBILITIES
· Apply statistical analysis and machine learning models to build predictive system
· Collaborate with team members to build machine learning solutions and writing code
· Contribute to model development process, including data validation, product affinity, sampling, generating performance definitions, and analyzing performance
· Perform complex data validation to uncover potential issues within the data
· Assist on code reviews to ensure high quality of code with an eye for process improvement
· Deploy model packages that are scalable across multiple digital properties
· Ensure the project documentation is complete and accurate
· Build presentations to communicate data models and algorithms to business stakeholders
· Contribute as part of a larger data science team, prioritizing and planning work under an Agile/Scrum delivery framework
REQUIREMENTS
· 5 years’ experience developing machine learning and statistical analysis models
· Proficient analyzing data and developing ML models using Python
· Proficient with Python and SQL and distributed data technologies (e.g. Spark)
· Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda and SageMaker, or Azure ML Studio and Functions
· Knowledge of traditional decisioning models and random forest
· Experience with BI or data visualization products, such as Tableau and PowerBI
· Good communication and presentation skills
· Bachelor’s degree in related disciplines such as Computer Science, Statistics, etc.
PREFERRED SKILLS
· Master’s in quantitative discipline
· Experience with consulting organizations or agencies
· Experience working in Big Data environment and ETL processes
· Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud solutions (e.g. Analytics, Audience Manager, etc.)
· Experience building recommendation engine models for e-commerce sites
· Ability to draw insights and conclusions from data into a story for non-technical audiences