Data Scientist - Plano, TX / Remote - Contract

Data Scientist - Plano, TX / Remote - Contract

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Job Title: Data Scientist
Location: Plano, TX / remote
Duration: 12+ Months
Job description:

• In order to maximize benefits offered by data science, it is essential to understand the information in terms of business practicality, manage this information and to apply the information knowledge into business use cases that have a measurable return.
• To successfully accomplish this, data must be distilled down to a point where relevant information patterns can be understood and leveraged to modify business operations as well as human behavior.
• One of the many functions of data science is the management of iterative process that essentially casts a wide net across the myriad of systems, Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in order to create a data set that that can be mined for applicable information patterns.
• This is accomplish through data engineering and program level resources seeing that information is where it needs to be for the data scientist to unlock discrete patterns in the data that tell a unique and often unknown story that typically results in opportunity, defined in a use case.
• Once understood the applicable business processes and supporting systems can be modified to take advantage of the unique understanding of the underlying data.
• Data Science is responsible for the advanced analytics and data solutions.
• Data Engineers, system engineers and scrum masters
• Technologies used: Python, Spark and Hadoop

• Obtaining, Cleaning and Analysing Unstructured Data
• Writing software and scripts to extract insights from data. Projects from Proof of Concept (PoC) thru production
• Create models and use Machine Learning and AI tools and best practices to solve problems and obtain insights
• Create visualizations (i.e., Charts)
• Find anomalies in data and write relevant software to automate these processes
• Maintain code quality through unit testing. Troubleshoot and resolve issues in software that is being developed
• Collaborate with the team, customers and leadership to produce best in class ML/AI solutions
• Will have to present findings to the team, clients and higher management

• Computer Science background - with a focus on Data Science
• 3-4 years of actual data science experience
• Python
• Spark
• Working knowledge of Hadoop (hive, hbase, phoenix, Scala) - (Being able to get data and analyse data in a Hadoop environment)
• R and R-Cloud
• SQL (querying and working with major SQL DBs - e.g., Oracle, Postgres, MySQL)
• Strong communications and presentation skills
• Self-driven, willing and able to learn and adopt new technologies

• Master's Degree in CS
• Palantir
• Data Analysis Experience
• Experience creating models utilizing Machine Learning and/or Statistics
• Nanodegree in Machine Learning or AI
• Ability to simplify complex ideas and analysis for a non-technical audience.
• NumPy and other relevant Python libraries
• Computer Network experience
• Statistics/Math expertise
• JIRA