Principal Data Scientist

Job Title Principal Data Scientist

Location St. Petersburg, FL 33716 Or Denver, CO 80246 (Hybrid)

Duration 12+ Months contract (Possibility of Extension and FTE conversion)

Job Description:

• The Lead Data Scientist supports development of advanced decision support systems by employing advanced techniques from data analytics (including statistical analysis) and machine learning, particularly including NLP.
• The successful candidate will join an innovative and energetic team that develops capabilities that improve the performance of our business units and make them more efficient.
• This is a hands-on role in which the Data Scientist is expected to carry out a project from start to finish.

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Strong knowledge of Machine Learning techniques, including NLP
• Knowledge of statistics, including hypothesis testing
• Strong Python skills
• Proficient in SQL
• Comfortable with Unix scripting
• Experience building models that actually delivered value to a business
• Experience deploying systems to a production environment
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Working knowledge of big data technology
• Minimum of a Bachelor s degree and six (6) years of relevant experience or combination of education, training and experience.

Notes from the Hiring Manager:

• Role needs to work onsite hybrid workstyle 2-3 days per week at one of the Client s physical locations with St Pete and Denver preferred, no fully remote candidates.
• Need a senior Data Scientists.
• Focused on GenAI, validations, Improving accuracy, less on ML
• Strong with GenAI and Data Science.
• Design the process and evaluate how accurate it is over time.
• Python
• Automated evaluations, fine tuning of parameters. Will own the research and would accomplish the whole project.
• 3 years real exp doing Data Science Work.
• Will convert to FTE
• Big Data- not a requirement.
• Financial exp- Nice to have