Lead Data Scientist - Randstad USA

job summary:

As a Lead Data Scientist with a focus on both reporting and predictive modeling, your day-to-day responsibilities will include a mix of tasks related to data analysis, visualization, and predictive model development. Your core duties will consist of:

• Exposing Insights: As a Data Scientist, your goal is not to just display data, but turn it into information. You will produce analysis reports and diagnostic models to try and discover hidden relationships and patterns between our data and metrics of interest.
  
  
• Evaluate & Produce Quality: Good code is reviewed code. You will be involved in ensuring your and your teammates' code is free from errors, bias, and is easy to understand.
  
  
• Data Engineering: We are a newer team at a growing company, and you'll need to do a lot of your own data engineering. Gather, clean, and preprocess data from various sources, ensuring accuracy and consistency. Perform feature engineering to generate new variables or transform existing ones to improve the quality and usefulness of the dataset. Tie all these tasks together in a pipeline and deploy on cloud based infrastructure.
  
  
• Predictive Modeling: Develop, validate, and deploy predictive models using machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques, such as regression, classification, clustering, time series forecasting, and optimization.
  
  
• Generative Modeling: Use a combination of open source and paid technologies to produce abstractions & novel features for other applications.
  
  
• Continuous Improvement: Data Science is a quickly moving field and you'll need to keep up to date. You will need to keep abreast of the latest developments in data science, machine learning, and reporting technologies, while incorporating them into your work when appropriate. Participate in knowledge-sharing sessions to contribute to the growth and development of others.

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in a data science or machine learning role
  
  
• Experience with business efficiency metrics, such as: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), Revenue Acquisition Cost (RAC), Retention, Margin, Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), Lifetime Value (LTV), and Engagement.
  
  
• Experience with at least one dashboarding tool, such as: Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Google Data Studio, Streamlit, Dash, etc...
  
  
• Proficiency with Python
  
  
• Proficiency with SQL
  
  
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques for predictive modeling, such as: Regression, Classification, Clustering, Time Series Analysis, and Optimization
  
  
• Proficiency with end-to-end pipelines
  
  
• Expert knowledge in model evaluation metrics
  
  
• Experience pulling data from various third party systems and APIs
  
  
• Proficiency with version control
  
  
• Proven ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  
  
• Proficiency with visualization in python
  
  
• Familiar with best practices in secure data handling and customer data privacy

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in the financial planning industry
  
  
• Prior experience in the consumer technology industry
  
  
• Prior experience using containers to produce repeatable and shareable code
  
  
• Prior experience with Natural Language Processing
  
  
• Prior experience with cloud deployment
  
  
• Prior experience with Neural Networks and/or LLMs

 
location: BALTIMORE, Maryland
job type: Permanent
salary: $175,000 - 195,000 per year
work hours: 9am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

• Build complex models for both operational insights as well as Gen AI driven functionality within a consumer software product
  
  
• Enable your own work by occassionally performing your own data engineering to remove blockers and achieve end goals
  
  
• Optimize models given infrastructural and pricing constraints (understand drivers and optimally leverage tools like Vertex AI and HuggingFace or Mistrel
  
  
• Enable the business to overcome / solve top level pro