Remote Data Scientist

Summary

Join Excella, a leading provider of Agile software development and data and analytics solutions, as a Data Scientist. You will work directly with client stakeholders to understand and define analysis objectives, obtain data from multiple sources, and present complex results tailored to different audiences.

Responsibilities

• Working directly with client stakeholders to understand and define analysis objectives and then translate these into actionable results
• Obtaining data from multiple, disparate data sources including structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
• Using machine learning and data mining technique to understand the patterns in large volumes of data, identify relationships detect data anomalies, and classify data sets
• Working with data integration developers to assess data quality and define data processing business rules for cleansing, aggregation, enhancement etc. support analysis and predictive modeling activities
• Designing and building algorithms and predictive models using techniques such as linear and logistic regression, support vector machines, ensemble models (random forest and/or gradient boosted trees), neural networks, and clustering techniques
• Deploying predictive models and integrating them into business processes and applications
• Validating and optimizing model performance upon deployment and tracking over time as necessary
• Presenting complex analysis results tailored to different audiences (e.g. technical, manager, executive) in a highly consumable and actionable form including the use of data visualizations