Sr Data Scientist

Job#: 2080195

Job Description:

Job Title: Sr. Data Scientist

Job Location: Columbus, OH (Onsite)

Pay Range: $56/hr-$66/hr

Contract Length: 3 Months (Contract-to-hire)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title

Senior Data Scientist

Overview:

Our Enterprise Data and Analytics team is growing, and were looking for an outstanding Senior Data Scientist to join our team. In this role, you will leverage machine learning, segmentation, and statistical inference on huge data sets to improve how we understand our customers and the communities we serve. We need data and analytics to meet our goals.

As we advance our data science and analytics capabilities, we want experts in modeling complex business problems and discovering business insights using statistical, algorithmic, mining, and visualization techniques. The Senior Data Scientist contributes to building and developing the organization's data infrastructure and supports the senior leadership with insights, management reports, and analysis for decision-making processes.

Responsibilities:

Performs advanced analytics methods to extract value from business data

Performs large-scale experimentation and build data-driven models to answer business questions

Conducts research on cutting-edge techniques and tools in machine learning/deep learning/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 presentation of data-based recommendations

Evangelizes best practices to analytics and products teams

Owns the entire model development process, from identifying the business requirements, data sourcing, model fitting, presenting results, and production scoring

Skills:

Up-to-date knowledge of machine learning and data analytics tools and techniques

Strong knowledge in predictive modeling methodology

Experienced at leveraging both structured and unstructured data sources

Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job

Demonstrated ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences

Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines

Strategic, intellectually curious thinker with focus on outcomes

Professional image with the ability to form relationships across functions

Strong experience with R/RStudio, Python, SAS, SQL, NoSQL

• Strong experience with Cloud Machine Learning technologies (e.g., AWS Sagemaker)
• Strong experience with machine learning environments (e.g., TensorFlow, scikit-learn, caret)

Strong understanding of statistical methods and skills such as Bayesian Networks Inference, linear and non-linear regression, hierarchical, mixed models/multi-level modeling

Financial Services background preferred

Experience:

1-3 years work and/or educational experience in machine learning or cloud computing, experience using statistics and machine learning to solve complex business problems, experience conducting statistical analysis with advanced statistical software, experience scripting languages, and packages, experience building and deploying predictive models, experience web scraping, and scalable data pipelines and experience with big data analysis tools and techniques.

Education:

• Master's degree in computer science, statistics, economics or related fields

EEO Employer

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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 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.