Full-Time

Lead Data Science Analyst

Posted on 2/20/2025

Discover

Discover

10,001+ employees

Fintech
Financial Services

Compensation Overview

$105.5k - $147.1kAnnually

+ Incentives

Mid, Senior

No H1B Sponsorship

Wheeling, IL, USA

Category
Data Science
Data & Analytics
Required Skills
Data Science
Machine Learning
Data Analysis

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Degree
Experience
Requirements
  • Bachelors Analytics, Engineering, and Statistics or related
  • 4+ years Credit Risk, Fraud Risk, Marketing Analytics, Optimization, Operations Analytics, Modeling/Data Science or related
Responsibilities
  • Responsible for working closely with management to execute analytical initiatives.
  • Responsible for solving business problem by leveraging techniques such as segmentation, optimization, advanced analytics and machine learning.
  • Creates reports and dashboards to closely monitor performance metrics and provide insights.
  • Leads the development and implementation of advanced analytics including customer segmentation, optimization, prescriptive analytics and machine learning algorithm & recommendation to solve business problems.
  • Operates as a subject matter expert on statistical analysis, test and design of experiment, analysis methodology, modeling & application, and financial impact analysis.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional partners to understand their business needs, formulate and complete end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering, analysis, ongoing scaled deliverables and presentations.
  • Delivers effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of leadership, creating visual displays of quantitative information.
  • Establishes and maintains effective performance tracking; identify improvement opportunity, form hypothesis, proposes, designs and implements tests to drive strategy enhancement and optimization.
  • Manages multiple priorities, communicate business performance and project progress to management & business partners.
  • Develops and automates reports, iteratively build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale, solving for analytical needs.
  • Facilitates implementation of work product and ensure accuracy.
  • Consistently follows standard work processes and documentation requirements.
  • Recommends improvement to work processes to increase efficiency while maintaining quality of work.
  • Continuously improves technical and leadership skills through training and development.
Desired Qualifications
  • Masters Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Riverwoods, Illinois

Founded

1985

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • In-car commerce market projected to reach $86 billion by 2025.
  • Click to Pay expansion offers streamlined, secure shopping in multiple countries.
  • Support for Black-owned restaurants boosts brand image and customer loyalty.

What critics are saying

  • Capital One acquisition may cause instability in Discover's corporate strategy.
  • In-car commerce partnership exposes Discover to technological and adoption challenges.
  • Click to Pay expansion increases competition, pressuring Discover to innovate rapidly.

What makes Discover unique

  • Discover's partnership with Car IQ leads in the emerging in-car commerce market.
  • Global expansion of Click to Pay enhances Discover's digital checkout capabilities.
  • $5M initiative for Black-owned restaurants strengthens Discover's community engagement.

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Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances

Recognition Program

Education Assistance

Commuter Benefits

Family Support Programs

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Company News

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Oct 1st, 2020
Car IQ Teams With Discover To Fast-Track Automotive Banking

By 2025, it is estimated that $86 billion will be spent on in-car commerce. That number assumes that human beings would be the ones giving the commands. But what if humans were removed from the in-car Commerce process – just as they have been removed from the autonomous driving process?