Principal Data Scientist I

Overview

Are you ready to lead the development of data-driven solutions to Spectrum's business challenges as a Principal Data Scientist I? In this role, you will utilize your analytical, statistical, and programming skills to clean, aggregate, and analyze large data sets, interpreting results to provide valuable insights. You will apply your strong command of statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms to determine key areas for investment, synthesize actionable findings, and present them to audiences with diverse agendas and varying technical expertise.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Plan and lead the data science lifecycle, including requirements gathering, data exploration, model prototyping, validation, and productionalization
• Ensure data science products are flexible, modular, and have a reusable code base.
• Identify future technical needs to enhance organizational capabilities
• Coordinate technical activities across projects and the organization
• Interact with stakeholders to understand business needs, communicate project status, and build relationships
• Anticipate hurdles and recommend solutions aligned with business requirements
• Lead exploratory data analyses for new data sources and uses, establishing data correlations
• Mentor and train junior team members, setting strategic vision for projects

Working Conditions

• Office environment

What You’ll Bring to Spectrum

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, operations research and/or equivalent combination of education and experience

Experience

• 8+ years of data manipulation and statistical modeling as a Scientist, Consultant, Architect, DBA, or Engineer
• 8+ years of SQL/R/SAS programming
• 3+ years of leading the design, develop and deployment of machine learning and analytics models

Skills

• Advanced-level skills in one or more scripting, analysis, or ETL languages, ability to readily read and adapt others’ code, and ability to rapidly learn new languages or techniques
• Expert-level skills and experience with analysis language such as R and/or Python (including relevant packages) in support of advanced analytics
• Comprehensive experience and theoretical foundation of the properties of the major families of machine learning models (regression, decision trees, clustering, SVMs, neural networks)
• Experience with modern machine learning technology and tools to produce model scoring code
• Command of advanced mathematical concepts including calculus, PDEs, probability, and statistics, and the ability to independently learn any necessary additional concepts
• Effective synthesis and presentation skills; ability to communicate results and recommendations to a wide variety of audiences including leadership
• Understanding of data architecture, data warehouse and data marts
• Demonstrated ability and desire to continually expand skill set, and learn from and teach others
• Experience with other database and data store technologies, such as NoSQL, key-value, columnar, graph, and document.
• Extensive experience with large data sets and the tools to obtain, transform, and store data on Big Data and streaming services
• Comprehensive background in Linux/Unix/CentOS
• Pattern recognition and predictive modeling skills
• Effective attention to detail with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute multiple tasks
• Ability to identify and resolve end-to-end performance, network, server, cloud, and platform issues

Preferred Qualifications

Education

• Master’s degree in a related field

Experience

• Hadoop, HIVE, SPARK, and/or Snowflake
• Background with cable and/or telecommunications

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Note: This job posting will remain open until :00 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.

The base pay for this position generally is between $110,800.00 and $196,400.00 . The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.