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Our Data Scientist roles are unique. The ideal candidate is a rare hybrid, a scientist with the programming abilities to scrape, combine, and manage data from a variety of sources and a statistician who knows how to derive insights from the information within.He or she will combine the skills to create new prototypes with the creativity and thoroughness to ask and answer the deepest questions about the data, what secrets it holds, and to push the boundaries of what is possible with big data. Want to know more?This role requires being in our Atlanta, Georgia office (One Atlantic Center) 3 days/week on Tues - Thurs.This role is not approved for sponsorship now or in the future including candidates on OPT time.What You'll Do:

• Utilize combined knowledge of data structures, analytics, algorithms/models, and strong computer science fundamentals to independently prepare datasets, conduct analytics, and develop deployable solutions
• Collect, analyze and interpret large data assets to define and build multiple innovative solution components leveraging business and technical expertise. Support the analytical strategy by understanding critical technical capabilities and suggesting opportunities. Lead the development or projects with multiple deliverables, leveraging business and technical expertise.
• Work on high-complexity tasks in problems often within multiple business or analytical domains, collaborating with other teams to develop predictive models, risk assessments, fraud detection, recommendation engines, etc. encouraging enhanced solutions
• Package, summarize, visualize and perform storytelling on analytical findings and results for management and business users
• Communicate results to external stakeholders and mid level leadership, able to communicate business impact of work
• Evaluate the technical work of peer and junior data scientists, guiding them on deliverable quality and accuracy

What Experience You Need

• BS degree in a STEM major or equivalent discipline
• 5-7 years of experience in a related analytical role
• Proven track record of designing and developing predictive models in real-world applications
• Experience with model performance evaluation and predictive model optimization for accuracy and efficiency
• Cloud certification strongly preferred
• Additional role-based certifications may be required depending upon region/BU requirements

What Could Set You Apart

• Passion for data science, data mining, machine learning and experience with big data architectures and methods
• A Master's degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Economics)

Seniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionEngineering and Information Technology

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