Director – Advanced Analytics (Data Science)

Job Overview

Key Job Functions

• Develop and drive analytical tools/capabilities across the analytics organization
• Lead and provide training, guidance and other managerial needs to the team
• Use statistical methods (such as Regression and ARIMA) to create predictive models
• Use machine learning techniques (such as random forests, neural nets, and clustering algorithms) to model customer behavior
• Standardize model/product development and operational efforts
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to identify problems and develop innovative data-driven solutions
• Solve optimization problems
• Manipulate large datasets to merge data sources, ensure consistency, and design new variables for models
• Conduct ad hoc analysis
• Lead organization with methods and actions that are ethical and in full compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and Company policies.
• Identify compliance risks and take actions necessary to eliminate or minimize risks.
• Champion, within the organization, a commitment to honesty, integrity, and responsible corporate behavior.
• Create a compliance culture within the organization and foster an environment where team members feel comfortable reporting potential violations or misconduct.

Job Requirements:

• Intermediate-Advanced knowledge of statistical modeling techniques and machine learning algorithms
• MS Office Products experience (ability to manage data/reports in Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Ability to quickly understand business problems and how they may be solved
• Strong analytics skill, aptitude for working with data, and creativity at finding new solutions to modeling problems
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, data sets, and architecture
• Build processes supporting data structures and data transformation
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, SQL, etc.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala, etc.
• Experience with cloud platforms and services

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