Job#: 3023027 Job Description: Data Scientist
Location: Columbus, Ohio (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Role Overview
An opportunity is available for a Data Scientist to join a growing Enterprise Data and Analytics team. This role involves leveraging machine learning, segmentation, and statistical inference on large data sets to discover business insights. The position supports senior leadership with insights, management reports, and analysis for decision-making by modeling complex business problems and using statistical, algorithmic, mining, and visualization techniques.
Key Responsibilities
- Performs advanced analytics methods to extract value from business data.
- Performs large-scale experimentation and builds data-driven models to answer business questions.
- Conducts research on techniques and tools in machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence.
- Determines requirements that will be used to train and evolve deep learning models and algorithms.
- Articulates a vision and roadmap for the exploitation of data as a valued corporate asset.
- Influences product teams through the presentation of data-based recommendations.
- Owns the entire model development process, from identifying business requirements and data sourcing to model fitting, presenting results, and production scoring.
Required Qualifications
Education: A Master's degree in Decision Sciences, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations Research, or a STEM degree is required. In lieu of a Master's degree, a Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of work experience in analytics or data science is acceptable.
Experience: A minimum of 3 years of work experience in analytics or data science is required for candidates with a Master's degree. If a candidate has a PhD, no work experience is required. Experience should include using statistics and machine learning to solve complex business problems, conducting statistical analysis with advanced software, building and deploying predictive models, and working with scalable data pipelines.
Technical Skills: Direct experience with SQL programming and large database applications such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, SPSS, Teradata, and Hadoop is required. Experience with R/RStudio, Python, SAS, and NoSQL is also necessary, along with experience in Cloud Machine Learning technologies (e.g., AWS Sagemaker) and machine learning environments (e.g., TensorFlow, scikit-learn, caret). A strong understanding of statistical methods and skills such as Bayesian Networks Inference, linear and non-linear regression, and hierarchical mixed models is expected.
Preferred Qualifications
- Financial Services background is preferred.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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