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Data Scientist (REMOTE :: W2 ONLY)

VAAM TechnologiesTX🇺🇸United States

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SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeRemote
LocationTX, United States
SQLScalaLinearTableauD3.jsC++HIPAAHiveJavaPigPythonMachine LearningPower BIMatplotlib

Job description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
  • Great storyteller
  • Data mining or extracting usable data from valuable data sources
  • Using machine learning tools to select features, create and optimize classifiers
  • Carrying out preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
  • Enhancing data collection procedures to include all relevant information for developing analytic systems
  • Processing, cleansing, and validating the integrity of data to be used for analysis
  • Analyzing large amounts of information to find patterns and solutions
  • Developing prediction systems and machine learning algorithms
  • Presenting results in a clear manner
  • Propose solutions and strategies to tackle business challenges
  • Collaborate with Business and IT teams
  • Builds actionable data visualizations that identify areas of opportunity and help drive excellence at scale
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with several stakeholders across multiple organizations
  • Be curious, creative, opinionated thinker with a talent for detecting patterns and elevating through strategy
  • Ability to facilitate conversations with business owners and stakeholders to understand the problem, rapidly iterate proposed solutions, and clearly present new findings and solutions
  • Embrace and drive a culture of data-driven, continuous improvement and help identify, analyze, and implement improvement opportunities
  • Maintains a high degree of confidentiality at all times due to access to sensitive information
  • Maintains regular, predictable, consistent attendance and is flexible to meet the needs of the department
  • Follows all Medicare, Medicaid, HIPAA, and private insurance regulations and requirements
  • Results-oriented individual with a demonstrated commitment to do what it takes to get the job done
  • Abides by all regulations, policies, procedures and standards
DESIRED OUTCOMES:
  • Successfully mining, interpreting, and cleaning data to uncover hidden opportunities for realizing the data's full potential
  • Developing and optimizing machine learning classifiers and prediction systems
  • Enhancing data collection procedures and ensuring the integrity of data used for analysis
  • Collaborating with business and IT teams to propose solutions and strategies to tackle business challenges
  • Facilitating conversations with business owners and stakeholders to understand problems and present new findings and solutions
  • Demonstrating a commitment to getting the job done and achieving results
POSITION REQUIREMENTS & COMPETENCIES:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems or related field and 5+ years of data and analytics experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Programming skills in statistical languages such as R, Python, and database query languages such as SQL, Hive, Pig; familiarity with Scala, Java, or C++ is a plus
  • Strong applied statistical skills including statistical tests, distributions, regression, and maximum likelihood estimators
  • Knowledge of machine learning methods such as k-Nearest Neighbors, Naive Bayes, SVM, and Decision Forests
  • Strong math skills including multivariable calculus and linear algebra
  • Data wrangling proficiency
  • Experience with data visualization tools such as matplotlib, ggplot, d3.js, Power BI, or Tableau
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong software engineering background
  • Hands-on experience with data science tools
  • Strong problem-solving ability
  • Analytical mindset and strong business sense

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