Associate Data Scientist

Role: Digital (Associate Data Scientist)
Location: Merrifield, VA (Hybrid)
6 Months Long Term Contract

Job Description
Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior data scientists and leaders to design and implement predictive models and custom solutions that enhance our digital offerings.
• Partner with business units to gather requirements, understand customer needs, and develop data science solutions that address specific business challenges.
• Write efficient code in Python and SQL to manipulate and analyze data.
• Design, develop, and evaluate basic/routine predictive models and algorithms with some complexity.
• Utilize traditional and machine learning techniques and tools to build a variety of models, including but not limited to logistic .regression, random forest, XGBoost, neural networks, NLP, k-means clustering, ARIMA, and prophet forecasting.
• Analyze and interpret results with some complexity.
• Exercise limited judgment and discretion within defined procedures and practices.
• Develop and code basic modeling programs, algorithms, and automated processes.
• Use modeling and trend analysis to analyze data.
• Collaborate with team members and participate in team projects and initiatives.
• Utilize effective written and verbal communication to document and present findings.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years of experience in data science, statistics, and data analytics.
• Strong programming abilities in SQL, Python, R, or similar languages in data exploration, data preparation, modeling, prediction, simulation, and statistical analysis.
• Ability to use data and cloud environments such as Azure, Databricks, AWS, or Hadoop.
• Experience with machine learning techniques and tools to build a variety of models, including logistic regression, XGBoost, neural networks, NLP, and clustering.
• Technical writing skills.
• Strong communication and data storytelling presentation skills of technical material.
• Ability to collaborate and build relationships.
• Desired: Bachelor s degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, computers science, engineering, or degrees in similar quantitative fields.

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