Data Scientist - Senior

Genesis10 is seeking a Data Scientist: III (Senior) for a hybrid 3-month contract to hire position with a leading client in Columbus, OH.

Compensation: $65 per hour W2.

Job Description:

As we advance our data science and analytics capabilities, we want experts in modeling complex business problems and discovering business insights using statistical, algorithmic, mining, and visualization techniques. The Senior Data Scientist contributes to building and developing the organization's data infrastructure and supports the senior leadership with insights, management reports, and analysis for decision-making processes.

Responsibilities:

• Performs advanced analytics methods to extract value from business data
• Performs large-scale experimentation and build data-driven models to answer business questions
• Conducts research on cutting-edge techniques and tools in machine learning/deep learning/artificial intelligence
• Determines requirements that will be used to train and evolve deep learning models and algorithms
• Articulates a vision and roadmap for the exploitation of data as a valued corporate asset
• Influences product teams through presentation of data-based recommendations
• Evangelizes best practices to analytics and products teams
• Owns the entire model development process, from identifying the business requirements, data sourcing, model fitting, presenting results, and production scoring

Requirements:

• Up-to-date knowledge of machine learning and data analytics tools and techniques
• Strong knowledge in predictive modeling methodology
• Experienced at leveraging both structured and unstructured data sources
• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines
• Strategic, intellectually curious thinker with focus on outcomes
• Professional image with the ability to form relationships across functions
• Strong experience with R/RStudio, Python, SAS, SQL, NoSQL
• Strong experience with Cloud Machine Learning technologies (e.g., AWS Sagemaker)
• Strong experience with machine learning environments (e.g., TensorFlow, scikit-learn, caret)
• Strong understanding of statistical methods and skills such as Bayesian Networks Inference, linear and non-linear regression, hierarchical, mixed models/multi-level modeling
• Financial Services background preferred
• 1-3 years' work and/or educational experience in machine learning or cloud computing, experience using statistics and machine learning to solve complex business problems, experience conducting statistical analysis with advanced statistical software, experience scripting languages, and packages, experience building and deploying predictive models, experience web scraping, and scalable data pipelines and experience with big data analysis tools and techniques.
• Master's degree in computer science, statistics, economics or related fields

Genesis10 - Contract & Perm/Direct Hire

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client.

Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

* Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.

* The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.

* Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)

* Behavioral Health Platform

* Medical, Dental, Vision

* Health Savings Account

* Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)

* Voluntary Term Life Insurance

* 401K

* Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)

* Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.