Data Scientist

Job Description

Hi professional,

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USM Business Systems Inc is a highly recognized provider of professional IT Consulting services in the US.

I have an exciting new opportunity that I wanted to share with you and your network. Our client, is currently seeking a Professional to join their organization. I have included a complete job description below in case you or someone you know might be interested in learning more.

Job Title: Data Scientist 

Location: Columbus, IN

Duration: 9 weeks

Primary Skills: this is a fixed fee project for the duration of 9 weeks 

Required skills:

Responsibilities: • Understand our customer’s most urgent questions, working, under limited supervision, with internal and external teams to understand requirements and develop proposals to respond to those requirements.

 • Apply a broad range of techniques and theories from statistics, machine learning, and business intelligence to deliver actionable business insights to prospects and customers based on large-scale data.

 • Following initial high-level guidance, perform end-to-end steps involved in model development. These include preliminary data exploration and data preparation steps, variable/algorithm selection and model development/validation and scoring.

 • With guidance, develop and test algorithms' efficacy (i.e., by applying to test/sampled data and assessing accuracy/fit/predictive strength) for differing analytical use-cases.

 • Deliver results and presentations in a timely manner. 

• Lead implementations with customers, providing status updates, and sharing analytical insights.

 • Collaborate with Company’s Sales teams to educate prospects and customers on Company’s analytics offerings. Participate in pre-sales discussions by presenting on analytics service offering and technology stack. Skills/Experience 

• 5+ years of experience with customer-facing activities including requirements gathering, expectations and project management.

 • 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and deploying statistical models and data mining techniques for Predictive Analytics. 

• 5+ years of experience developing Advanced Analytics using, for example, Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, GLM, GAM, PCA, ANOVA, CART, Association Rules, Clustering, Neuron Nets, Survival Analysis, Text Mining, and Time Series methods. (Must have.) 

• Intimacy dealing with data preparation: integration, cleansing, imputation, transformation and variable selection. (Must have.)

 • Experience creating data visualizations to present findings and results of analyses.

 • Dashboard and report design, including documentation.

 • Proficiency in SQL and R, Python, SAS Enterprise Miner, SPSS, Stata, Matlab, Minitab, or JMP. (Must have.) 

• Experience with Perl, AWK, shell scripting, and C/C++.

 • Domain knowledge in at least three industries, ideally Finance, Health Care, and Telecommunications.

 • Overall knowledge of Business Intelligence; in particular, data modeling, ETL, and reporting tools.

 • Excellent verbal/written communication. • Excellent interpersonal skills.

 • Education Requirements 

MINIMUM MSc in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science; PhD preferred.

this is a fixed fee project for the duration of 9 weeks.

Thanks & Regards!

Parthu Srinivas

IT Recruiter | 703-794-2380          

srinivasr@usmsystems(dot)com

Qualifications

Additional Information

If my requirement matches your resume, then please do reply on my email id srinivasr(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can give a call on 703-794-2380.