Remote Senior Data Scientist

Description:

• Analytica is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to remotely support a high-profile financial regulatory client with analytical expertise across all stages of the data science lifecycle.
• The role involves serving as a technical lead in broadening the client's analytics as a service offerings to internal stakeholders.
• Responsibilities include serving as the primary technical point of contact for user communities, stakeholders, and project staff related to analytic services.
• The candidate will support the project manager in executing the quality management program, including peer reviews, issue escalation, quality assurance, validation, and verification of migrations.
• The role requires coordinating and maintaining user stories.
• The candidate will also serve as the primary point of contact for vendors of off-the-shelf analytic applications and represent the open-source analytics community (Python/Spark, R, etc.) and their associated notebook/integrated development environment capabilities.
• The position involves developing and delivering internal analytics required to support cost estimation and forecasts, performance metrics, data management scripts, etc.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in an analytics discipline or related field is required; a master's degree is preferred.
• The candidate must have 8+ years of practice in statistical analysis.
• Experience with the development of predictive analytics models and scripting languages such as Python and R is necessary.
• Knowledge of and experience with public cloud providers, specifically Amazon Web Services architecture, tools, and cloud methodologies (e.g., AWS Redshift) is required.
• The candidate must have experience performing analytics from a cloud platform.
• Experience with databases such as Oracle and PostgreSQL is essential.
• Knowledge and experience with Agile, Scrum, and DevOps principles and practices are required.
• The candidate must be a US citizen.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Public trust security clearance for the supported agencies is mandatory.

Benefits:

• Analytica offers competitive compensation with opportunities for bonuses.
• The company provides employer-paid health care.
• There are training and development funds available for employees.
• A 401k match is included as part of the benefits package.