Job Summary:
We are currently looking for Data Scientist candidates that will play a critical role in the monitoring, maintenance and creation of both pre-existing and new statistical and predictive models related to the used vehicle wholesale (auction), appraisal, and retail business. This individual will also play a role in leveraging microservices/APIs, writing and improving software code, and being jack-of-all-trades creative problem solver. This role, based in Charlotte, NC will be instrumental in the development of company analytical models and critical to the growth of EchoPark, the companys exclusively pre-owned dealership concept.
Responsibilities:?
Perform high quality, sophisticated analysis in support of internal projects related to pricing, inventory sourcing, inventory management, and logistics (which vehicles should we ship to which stores).
Develop new predictive models to enhance revenue and business understanding. This includes the design, implementation and interpretation of complex statistical analyses.
Present analysis, models, and insights to internal stakeholders and end users.
Monitor health of?existing models and recommend?enhancements to meet?business needs.
Work collectively with analytics product managers, data engineers, software developers, and analytics engineers (i.e. DevOps) to glean insights and needs from the business, brainstorm best solutions, create front end visualizations for internal users, build/leverage data pipelines, build and test statistical models, productionalize code/models/APIs, and monitor performance.
Qualifications:
Expertise in two or more of the following areas: mathematical programming, statistics, forecasting, machine learning combinatorial optimization.?
Excellent business acumen and creative problem solver
Ability to structure and analyze large data sets.
Expert programmer in Python & SQL with knowledge of data science packages, experience with Dash a plus.?
Proficient in Microsoft Office Products.
Experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure but AWS acceptable as well)
High level of comfort in a *NIX environment.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation-based communication skills.
Experience with MicroStrategy and/or other reporting platforms a plus.
Experience with some type of source code management (ex: Git)
3 - 5 years minimum of relevant work experience.
Master's or PhD or in Economics, Social Science, Operations Research or other applied quantitative discipline.