Data Scientist
$75K-$124K (Glassdoor est.)
As the Enterprise Data and Analytics Center of Excellence, we empower First Tech business leaders to drive differentiating member experiences and business value by leveraging information and insights. Key responsibilities of the Advanced Analytics Data Scientist include interfacing with all business stake holders to formulate the right business questions, address them with scientific rigor, design, implement, test, productize, monitor and document data science assets effectively, evangelize data science to the organization and contribute to rendering First Tech data-driven.

Here's what you can expect from the job and what you need to be successful:

Job Duties
Accelerate stakeholder and First Tech business growth and success with meaningful insights gained via advanced analytics models and solutions targeted to answer the most important business questions
Consult stakeholders about how advanced analytics and a data-driven approach can help them achieve greater success in driving their business units. Evangelize data science and the mission of the Advanced Analytics team. Generate and effectively communicate the stories data tell us for each Advanced Analytics initiative
Work with cross-functional team members to identify use cases, formulate the right questions, suggest scientifically sound ways to address them and prioritize actionable, high-impact insights across a variety of core business areas
Develop end-to-end from data acquisition to production, data pipelines and predictive/prescriptive models on large-scale data sets (structured and unstructured) to address various business problems; develop deep-dive analysis and machine learning models to drive member value and partner success
Research, design, implement and validate cutting-edge algorithms/models to analyze diverse sources of data to achieve targeted outcomes
Deliver informative and effective findings, results and recommendations from statistical analysis to stakeholders (able to articulate the findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences)
Initiate and drive projects to completion independently, including helping stakeholders to integrate advanced analytics assets into their operational processes
Recommend ongoing improvements / tuning to methods and algorithms currently in use/production
Work with a team of analysts and cross-functional business teams to provide expertise on mathematical concepts that are leveraged across the breadth of our solutions for the entire organization
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on analytics and analysis best practices, solution design as well as lead code/design reviews
Process, cleanse, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis
Essential Skills
3+ years' experience in Analytics/Data Science working with large amounts of data
Ability to analyze a problem, formulate and communicate the right questions and suggest reasonable and effective ways to address them
Expert command of the English language, persuasive written and verbal communication and an ability to effectively tell stories with data
Proficiency in the use of scripting languages (R, Python) and libraries/packages (pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, XGBoost, PySpark, sparkR, sparklyR etc.)
Experience with AWS, Git, Docker or Kubernetes is preferred
Experience with SQL/Relational databases. Experience with Dataiku is preferred
Strong experience in data mining, NLP, predictive and prescriptive analytics approaches
Deep understanding of machine learning (ML) techniques include clustering, classification, regression, decision trees, neural nets (MXnet, Tensorflow, Keras etc.), support vector machines, genetic algorithms, anomaly detection, association rules, sequential pattern discovery, and text mining
Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau preferred)
Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to translate business objectives into actionable analyses
Comfortable with ambiguity and yet able to steer analytics projects toward clear business goals, testable hypotheses and action-oriented outcomes
A focus on delivering business results including improved end-to-end customer experience and financial metrics.
Able to function effectively in multi-disciplinary teams that include business and technical contributors
Location: Hillsboro, OR 97134

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