Job Description
The Data Scientist/Engineer (DSE) is responsible for advising the business on the potential of data to provide new insights into the business’s mission. The DSE will source and use large amounts of data with strategies and advanced analysis, data mining, and data visualization techniques to create solutions that enable enhanced business performance and help customers meet their stated objectives.
The DSE plays a key role in the management of a number of projects in support of the business where he/she is required to leverage and synthesize large volumes and a variety of data in order to enhance the business’s understanding of individual population data, business data, other specialized data sets, latent and transient data as well as outcomes and decision points.
Job Requirements
- The DSE plays an analytical role where he/she sources the data, cleanses it and designs, implements, and evaluates advanced models and approaches for application in the business’s complex issues
- The DSE builds models for various problems inclusive of projections, classification, clustering, pattern analysis, sampling, and simulation
- The DSE researches new ways for predicting and modeling end-user behavior as well as investigating data summarization and visualization techniques for conveying key applied analytics findings
- The DSE performs data mining and exploratory statistics tasks on large datasets related to the business
- The DSE plays a strategic role in the development of new approaches to understand the business needs as well as approaches to solve complex business issues, cross-tabulating data to gain new insights
- The DSE generates actionable insights after cleansing large structured and unstructured data and enabling analytical capability in order to query the data and address various business needs
- The DSE will use structured, unstructured and disjointed datasets to generate actionable business insights and create manageable analytical processes
- The client uses a rich and diverse combination of in-house and outsourced technical skills. The DSE will collaborate with other data scientists and engineers to improve decision making and drive business performance
- The DSE will work closely with other data engineers, product managers, IT resources and other analysts across the business to solve complex business issues
