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Entry Level Associate Data Scientist - CIC Monroe

IBM

IBM

Entry Level Associate Data Scientist - CIC Monroe

Monroe, LA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Introduction

    As a Data Scientist at IBM, you will help transform our clients' data into tangible business value by analyzing information, communicating outcomes and collaborating on product development. Work with Best in Class open source and visual tools, along with the most flexible and scalable deployment options. Whether it's investigating patient trends or weather patterns, you will work to solve real world problems for the industries transforming how we live.

    Your Role and Responsibilities

    Here's where you come in. We're looking for passionate, original thinkers who want to drive progress, grow their network and further their careers. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning and is dedicated to staying ahead and being essential for clients, who believes no problem is too big to solve, and who wants to unleash your potential, IBM Services is for you.

    As an Associate, you'll be a part of client-facing teams as a consultant, developer, designer, data scientist, or technical specialist to help businesses change the way they work.

    Our clients' technical and business needs are constantly evolving. We're hiring inspired, talented individuals eager to apply their knowledge and perspective to challenging work that evolves industries and our world. We prioritize ongoing learning, development of technical skills, and continuous personal growth, all grounded in a culture of coaching and apprenticeship.

    Job role description: Associate Data Scientist

    You uncover the stories hidden in data, and find patterns in the numbers. As an Associate Data Scientist, you'll put this skill to work to solve business problems by preparing, analyzing, and understanding data to deliver insight, predict emerging trends, and provide recommendations for better results. You'll use a variety of data (structured, unstructured, IoT streaming), analytics, AI tools, and programming languages often using a cloud infrastructure to handle the volume and veracity of data streams.

    Armed with data, modeling expertise, and analytic results, as an Associate Data Scientist, you'll formulate conclusions and recommendations to stakeholders in an organization's leadership structure, leveraging strong consulting, communication, visualization, and storytelling skills.

    Work you could do as an Associate Data Scientist

    • Implement and validate predictive models as well as create and maintain statistical models with a focus on big data.
    • You'll incorporate a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques
    • Communicate with internal and external clients to understand and define business needs, providing analytical solutions.
    • Use leading edge tools such as R Library, python, tensor-flow combined with IBM tools and our AI application suites
    • Work in an Agile, collaborative environment, partnering with other scientists, engineers, consultants and database administrators of all backgrounds and disciplines to bring analytical rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of predicting behaviors.
    • Build teams or writing programs to cleanse and integrate data in an efficient and reusable manner, developing predictive or prescriptive models, and evaluating modeling results
    • Ask business and industry questions to identify appropriate modeling techniques
    • Communicate results to technical and non-technical audiences

    The CIC

    • The IBM Client Innovation Center is an in-bound delivery model where we support our clients from our Baton Rouge center (aka: we work in a traditional IBM Agile office setting).
    • Travel is expected and all candidates must be willing and able to travel to meet our client needs across the US. Travel is typically related to knowledge transfer and training at the client site (Monday thru Friday). You are expected to travel approximately 50% of the time.
    • You must live in, or be willing to relocate to, LOUISIANA. The work location is 150 Venable Lane, Monroe, LA 71203. This is not a work from home position.
    • Our Motto: Right Time, Right Place, Change the World.

    The Benefits

    Health Insurance. Paid time off. Corporate Holidays. Sick leave. Family planning. Financial Guidance. Retirement Planning. Training and Learning. We continue to expand our benefits and programs, offering some of the best support, guidance and coverage for a diverse employee population.

    Career Growth

    Our goal is to be essential to the world, which starts with our people. At our core, we are committed to believing and investing in our workforce through:

    • Skill development: helping our employees grow their foundational skills
    • Finding the dream job at IBM: navigating our company with the potential for many careers by channeling an employee's strengths and career aspirations
    • Diversity of people: Diversity of thought driving collective innovation

    Corporate Citizenship

    IBMers drive a corporate culture of shared responsibility. We love grand challenges and everyday improvements for our company and for the world. We care about each other, our clients, and the communities we live, work, and play in!

    http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/initiatives.html

    http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps

    About Business Unit

    IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.

    Your Life @ IBM

    What matters to you when you're looking for your next career challenge? Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities - where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust - where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

    Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.

    About IBM

    IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.

    Location Statement

    IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

    Being You @ IBM

    IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

  • Qualifications

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise

    • Great at solving problems by looking at thing differently, debugging, troubleshooting, and designing & implementing solutions to complex technical issues.
    • Thrive on teamwork and have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
    • Strong fundamentals in Mathematics and Computer Science (algorithms)
    • Strong technical and analytical abilities, a knack for driving impact and growth, and some experience with programming/scripting in a language such as Java or Python.
    • Proficient at least one of the statistical programming language such as R, Python, Scala or SAS, SPSS, Matlab.
    • Basic knowledge of predictive/prescriptive modeling skills
    • Some knowledge of Design Thinking and Agile Development Methodologies
    • Basic understanding of Cloud (AWS,Azure, etc)

    Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

    • Bachelor's Degree in: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence or Computer Engineering.
    • Proficient in Java, JavaScript, C++, HMTL, CSS
  • Industry
    Information Technology and Services
  • About Us

    IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

    Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

    At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.