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Senior Data Scientist

Nelnet · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$63k–$127k/yrFull-time

Job Responsibilities

  • Conduct advanced analyses and statistical deep dives, with a focus on producing actionable recommendations and strategic guidance for decision makers.
  • Develop and deploy custom models and algorithms using data and machine learning libraries to solve complex business problems.
  • Mine, clean, process, transform and join data from a variety of sources including SQL servers, AWS environments, Azure, SnowFlake, SalesForce, internal systems, and flat files.
  • Identify, wrangle, scrape, and assemble new data sources from the web, data aggregators, and public sources.
  • Build rich, interactive dashboards and visualizations from the ground up using PowerBI.
  • Compile and present key findings and reports to all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.
  • Continuously seek out opportunities to add value through process automation and programmatic solutions to manual tasks and monitor and improve Data Science model performance.
  • Act as a subject matter expert within the data science field.
  • Continuously learn, grow, and explore new emerging technologies.

Qualifications

  • PhD degree required in a Quantitative (heavy in mathematics, statistics or analysis, such as Applied Mathematics, Optimization, Psychology, or Economics) or Programming discipline.
  • 2+ years of experience in data analysis.
  • 1+ years of programming experience.
  • Significant experience working with large, complex data sets and common data science tools.
  • Experience working with database Python.
  • Experience designing, building, deploying, and validating machine-learning predictive models, ideally within a business framework.
  • Experience training multi-model design to structure and train for unstructured data matching.
  • Experience training LLM models for specialized use cases.

Education

PHD degree required in a Quantitative (heavy in mathematics, statistics or analysis, such as Applied Mathematics, Optimization, Psychology, or Economics) or Programming discipline.

Benefits

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, generous earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance & AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, performance-based incentive pay, short- and long-term disability, and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: LINK.

About the Role

The Senior Data Scientist is responsible for leading the development and implementation of machine learning models to solve complex business problems. This position works with large datasets, cleans and pre-processes data, and performs exploratory data analysis to understand the underlying patterns and trends. The Senior Data Scientist is also responsible for mentoring more junior Data Scientists, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and presenting findings and recommendations to senior leadership.

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