Data Science Manager

Blend360

Data Science Manager

Columbia, MD
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    • Directly manage analyst project work and overall performance, including effective career planning; have difficult conversations and deliver constructive feedback with support from senior management.
    • Interview, hire and train new employees.
    • Analyze team KPIs, develop solutions and alternative methods to achieve goals.
    • Build positive and productive relationships with clients for business growth.
    • Understand client needs and customize existing business processes to meet client needs.
    • Promptly address client concerns and professionally manage requests and projects.
    • Work as a strategic partner with leadership teams to support client needs.
    • Work with practice leaders and clients to understand business problems, industry context, data sources, potential risks, and constraints
    • Problem-solve with practice leaders to translate the business problem into a workable Data Science solution; propose different approaches and their pros and cons
    • Work with practice leaders to get stakeholder feedback, get alignment on approaches, deliverables, and roadmaps
    • Develop a project plan including milestones, dates, owners, and risks and contingency plans
    • Create and maintain efficient data pipelines, often within clients’ architecture. Typically, data are from a wide variety of sources, internal and external, and manipulated using SQL, spark, and Cloud big data technologies
    • Assemble large, complex data sets from client and external sources that meet functional business requirements.
    • Build analytics tools to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
    • Perform data cleaning/hygiene, data QC, and integrate data from both client internal and external data sources on Advanced Data Science Platform. Be able to summarize and describe data and data issues
    • Conduct statistical data analysis, including exploratory data analysis, data mining, and document key insights and findings toward decision making
    • Train, validate, and cross-validate predictive models and machine learning algorithms using state of the art Data Science techniques and tools
    • Document predictive models/machine learning results that can be incorporated into client-deliverable documentation
    • Assist client to deploy models and algorithms within their own architecture
  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    • MS degree in Statistics, Math, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field
    • 4+ years Professional experience in Advanced Data Science, such as predictive modeling, statistical analysis, machine learning, text mining, geospatial analytics, time series forecasting, optimization
    • Experience with one or more Advanced Data Science software languages (R, Python, Scala, SAS)
    • Proven ability to deploy machine learning models from the research environment (Jupyter Notebooks) to production via procedural or pipeline approaches
    • Experience with SQL and relational databases, query authoring and tuning as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases including Hadoop/Hive
    • Experience with spark and data-frames in PySpark or Scala
    • Strong problem-solving skills; ability to pivot complex data to answer business questions. Proven ability to visualize data for influencing.
    • Comfortable with cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google)
    • Experience with Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Optimizely a plus

    Additional Information

    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.