Associate Data Scientist Location:Orlando,FL
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Wrangles large amounts of data from multiple sources
- Cleanses and prepares data for modeling and analysis
- Uses the correct data mining approach to solve business problems including customer segmentation, marketing and promotional campaigns, operations enablers, and various market-growth initiatives
- Appropriately evaluates model results and iterates as necessary
- Consults on internal database(s) in collaboration with business partners (e.g., IT, Marketing) to ensure data quality
- Efficiently and accurately produces data reports, visualizations, and insights to meet the needs of business partners
REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- Minimum of 2+ years\' experience using data mining tools and advanced analytical methods in a business environment or advanced technical degree
- Proficiency with relational database systems
- Proficiency and proven experience with techniques in accurately joining large data sets from multiple sources and manipulating data to desired format
- Experience with data visualization
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a solid understanding of business
- Experience in one or more statistical programming languages (R, Python, SAS, SPSS)
REQUIRED EDUCATION:
Bachelor\'s degree in Economics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or a related field
OTHER KEY QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrated ability and proven results exemplifying initiative, project management skills, and accuracy/detail-orientation
- Ability to work independently and with team
- Extremely curious about data
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong desire to learn new data mining languages and techniques
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Knowledge and proficiency in R
- Master\'s degree
- Brings unique knowledge or expertise to team in some aspect of advanced analytics (e.g.; statistics, uplift modeling, marketing mix models, econometric modeling, predictive modeling, machine learning, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to summarize and present complex analytics to senior leadership