Senior Data Science Application Developer

Company

Cox Communications, Inc.

Data Intelligence & Science

Sr Data Scientist

Individual ContributorHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

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Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $99,000.00 - $165,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Cox Communications is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for Network Analytics Reliability Enablement Team (NARE).  This role will report to a Manager of Data Science and will be responsible for architecture and development of analytics applications for the Service Health platform. As a Data Science application developer, you act the marrying of the world of data science and application development, delivering scalable infrastructure which can both run new data science models, and also facilitate the onboarding of additional models across the organization.  This role will play a central part in the ongoing design and build of data models, core platform infrastructure, data integration layers, graph database algorithms, and AWS development.

Responsibilities:

• Analytics Application Architecture: Identify or design repeatable patterns for implementing analytics application use cases.

  • Plan and document key logic paths, service architecture, and data stores for new use cases

  • Review of existing services for maintainability, scalability, and opportunities for complexity reduction

  • Design with a bias towards observability, reusability, testability, and scale

• Development: Develop analytics applications using industry best practices for design, development, and testing. Make recommendations where needed for tools, services, and ways of working.

  • Work in the AWS eco system to architect scale-able and maintainable solutions.

  • Implement quality unit testing strategies, end to end testing, and A/B testing approaches.

  • Build advanced data models to interpret signal data and network infrastructure

  • Solve complex problems using top notch software development skills 

  • Take part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.

  • Perform trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary.

  • Provide ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.

Qualifications

Minimum: 

• BA/BS degree and 4 years of software engineering experience, OR MS degree and 2 years of software engineering experience

• 4 years of Python, Java, or C# experience

• 1 year of Python development experience

• At least 1 year experience deploying and maintaining data science models and automation in a production capacity

• 2 years of cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) in a software engineering or data science capacity.

• Knowledge and experience with specific AWS Services like S3, Step Functions, Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, MSK, EKS, ElastiCache, Athena, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Neptune, RDS, SageMaker, EC2, EMR, EventBridge

• 1 year experience with big data systems like Hive, Athena, or Big Query

• Understanding of containerization

• Proficient with SQL using on one or more query engines such as Presto, Trino, PostgreSQL

• Experience with analytics application design and development.

• Good communication skills. The ability to comprehend and communicate advanced technical topics to non-technical business partners.

• Experience with source code version control software, like Git or Bitbucket, and CICD pipelines like Jenkins. 

• Experience with in-memory storage solutions like DynamoDB or Redis

• Experience performing basic exploratory data analysis on data sets using Python

• High-level understanding of basic data science ideas such as data cleaning, anomaly detection, clustering, and regression

• Experience working on productionalized code

• Self-motivated with a proactive approach to work; able to independently identify, prioritize, and plan next steps while maintaining a strategic, big-picture perspective.

Preferred: 

• 2 years of work experience utilizing AWS Services

• Experience with AWS S3, Step Functions, Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, MSK, EKS, ElastiCache, Athena, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Neptune, RDS, and SageMaker

• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes

• Experience within the telecommunications industry, cable industry or consulting.

• Experience in automated test design and implementation

• Experience in data store selection for large-scale applications (high data volume and/or high read/write)

• Experience developing using version control with a team in a professional context

• Experience with Kafka

• Experience with Terraform

• Experience with Redis

• Experience with Gremlin or other graph query languages

• Experience creating high-level and process diagrams with tools such as Lucidchart

• Experience developing using Agile methodology

• Professional experience implementing data science models

• Understanding of intermediate data science concepts such as centrality measures

• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring consistent progress, timely delivery, and alignment with organizational goals, while maintaining attention to detail and effectively monitoring progress across projects

• Experience using project management tools such as Jira

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.Cox Communications is all about creating moments of real human connection; and for employees, that’s true both in the workplace and in the problems we solve for customers. From building advertising solutions to unleashing IoT technologies to creating an exceptional experience for customers in our retail locations and online, we’re creating a world that is smarter and more connected. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

 

Salary : $99,000 - $165,000