Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Join OGC, a boutique market research and data analysis consulting firm, as a Senior Data Scientist. We help clients gain insights, improve customer experience, and grow their businesses. This full-time, remote position (East Coast hours) requires a strong analytical background and passion for using data to drive strategic decisions. You will work directly with clients, delivering consulting projects to senior stakeholders. The role offers an excellent opportunity to apply your skills in market research and customer experience while working with Fortune 500 companies. We seek a bright, independent, detail-oriented individual with excellent business acumen and a love for working with people.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a top university
• MA/MS in Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or other quantitative field
• 4+ years of professional experience as a project-oriented data analyst or scientist
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze issues, identify causes, and recommend solutions quickly
• Strong quantitative background with a high comfort level for learning new technologies
• Python (High Level)
• Modeling/Machine Learning
• Statistics
• SQL
• Must speak and write English fluently and idiomatically

Responsibilities

• Support the execution of quantitative research and consulting projects from start to finish including project planning, data analysis, modeling, and building insights-based reports
• Work with other data scientists, designers, and project managers on interdisciplinary projects using your skillset to derive structure and knowledge from raw data across various industry sectors
• Work on complex and varied data sets from some of the world’s largest organizations to solve real-world problems
• Develop data science products and solutions for clients, as well as for our internal team
• Client Communication and engagement including building and delivering insights-based reports
• Build, deploy and automate various algorithms (classification, regression, forecasting) and support the production of automated reports and analysis
• Transform large volumes of data from internal and external sources in a manner suitable for analysis
• Research new data sources, analytical tools, and methodologies for data science and data engineering
• Perform complex data analysis in support of ad-hoc and standing requests, focusing on delivering key insights
• Provide an expert point of view on analytical techniques and guidance to our analysts and sales directors

Preferred Qualifications

• Excel (VBA, Power Pivot, Power Query, DAX)
• Data Visualization (Tableau, PowerBI)
• Demonstrated experience with common Python packages for data analysis and modeling; including Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Jupyter, Dask, PySpark, etc
• Expertise in one or more specific data science domains (geospatial analytics, dashboards, text analytics, causal inference, cloud computing, etc.)