Principal Data Scientist - Durham, NC - Georgia IT Inc.
Durham, NC
About the Job
Job Title : Principal Data Scientist
Location : Durham, NC
Position Type : Contract
Rate : DOE
U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time
100% onsite position but the client is given to you some remote option regarding COVID 19
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Location : Durham, NC
Position Type : Contract
Rate : DOE
U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time
100% onsite position but the client is given to you some remote option regarding COVID 19
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide strategic thought leadership on data science
- Own delivery of multiple large and/or complex data science projects
- Identify actionable insights, suggest recommendations, and influence decision making by effectively communicating results to stakeholders (internal and external)
- Extract, transform and combine all incoming data with the goal of discovering hidden insight, which in turn can improve business processes, address a problem or result in cost savings.
- Design and develop models to understand and solve multiple complex business solutions using a variety of methods including data mining, machine learning, statistical analysis, design of experiments, predictive modeling and analysis, prescriptive engine, pattern recognition, probability analysis, simulations, visualizations, and algorithms for workflow automation
- Lead in the development and testing of hypotheses across all functional data sets using statistical models
- Lead requirements gathering sessions with business and technical staff to distill technical requirement from business requests
- Work with data engineers to design and develop scalable, efficient data pipeline processes to handle data ingestion, cleansing, transformation, integration, and validation for data science projects
- Train machine learning algorithms for use
- Lead and execute continuous data analyses to provide insights while working closely with developers to bring analytical insights to life.
- Master's Degree in Data Science, Computer science, Statistics, or closely related field with Data Science specialization, or equivalent combination of transferable experience and education
- Experience in a data science role, building predictive algorithms and data products ideally related to service delivery automation
- Experience with design and implementation of analytic models and methodologies for new applications
- Programming experience in Python, R or other related programming language
- Expert experience working with large and complex data sets
- SQL programming skills (Advance to Expert SQL programming skills)
- Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms such as decision forests, logistic regression, k-means clustering, etc.
- Ability to communicate findings clearly
- Exceptional problem solving skills and willingness to learn new concepts, methods, and technologies
Source : Georgia IT Inc.