Operations Research & Analytics - FICO Xpress

Fort Worth, TX company is seeking a Specialist, IT Operations Research & Advanced Analytics to join their team for a contract opportunity.

Leverage the latest technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment at this Fortune 500 transportation giant. Top technical resources are retained on long-term contract engagements.
Responsible for leveraging cutting edge technology to solve business problems by participating in all phases of the development process from inception through transition, advocating the agile process and test-driven development, using object-oriented development tools to analyze, model, design, construct and test reusable objects, and making the codebase better.

Contract Duration: 3 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Master's/PhD degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Operations Research, Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics).
• Experience with at least one Object Oriented programming language (e.g., C++, Java).
• Depth of knowledge in at least one OR skill area (e.g., optimization, simulation, statistics).
• Practical experience with data extraction, cleaning, and analysis.
• Demonstrated aptitude for independent learning, logical analysis, problem identification, and problem solving.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 2+ years of experience in a technical professional environment.
• 2+ years of experience developing and implementing large scale optimization models using MIP and heuristics.
• 2+ years of experience in Java.
• Experience in using cloud platforms and parallel processing to scale model development/ deployment.
• Surrounding team/key projects
  • Tech Ops MX Planning.
  • Integrated Planning.
• Long Range Planning & Short-Range Planning Optimization.