Full-Time Data Scientist Senior
Job Description
Data Scientist Senior
At CLA we create inspired careers.
We recognize that not everyone wants to grow their career in the same way. That’s why CLA exists to create opportunities. We promise to know you and help you.
CLA, one of the nation’s largest public accounting and professional services firm is currently seeking a Data Scientist Senior to join our growing Digital Transformation team in our Indianapolis, IN or Charlotte, NC office.
Position Summary:
The Data Scientist Senior thrives when constructing complex solutions that integrate data wrangling, visualization, and advanced modeling techniques into a seamless workflow using software development best practices in R, Python, or other scripting languages. They are comfortable working with APIs, web scraping, and SQL/no-SQL databases. It is not uncommon for our Data Scientists to automate business workflows while integrating stochastic/numeric algorithms in the process. Creating and modifying predictive algorithms to uncover and answer business questions makes us tick. Our products are usually delivered as a scheduled deployment, markdown report, dashboard, shiny application, or API. In contrast to an Associate, the Senior will develop more autonomy to develop solutions and may lead others, take on administrative tasks, perform support roles, and get involved in new business development.
As a Data Scientist Senior, you will:
- Participate and take ownership in the collection, analysis, and automated collection of data using a variety of data tools.
- Together with the Data Analytics team, support the building and implementing of models, algorithms, and simulations supporting solutions for external clients and internal projects.
- Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
- Work under the guidance of a variety of Data Analytics team members, gain exposure to developing custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
- Execute predictive and inferential analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques. Use existing processes and tools to monitor and analyze solution performance and accuracy, and communicate findings to team members and end users.
- Work individually as well as in collaboration with others.
- Interact with others will primarily be virtual with leadership and colleagues from other offices.
- Take on additional roles beyond technical development and client service that may include: serving as primary contact with clients or business leaders on internal projects, take on administrative tasks, perform support roles, and get involved in new business development.
Your experience includes:
- 2+ years experience in data analytics, statistics, data science, financial consulting, computer science or related field.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a field of Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Analytics, or Data Science (e.g., Informatics, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Analytics or Health Data Science). Master’s degree preferred.
- Understand the domain specific nature of data being collected/analyzed and how data may be utilized to satisfy project objectives.
- Identify potential data sources that may be useful to harness for analysis.
- Identify disparate data sources to harmonize and deliver integrated solutions.
- Develop service and industry specific knowledge through greater exposure to peers, internal experts, clients, regular self-study, and formal training.
- Transform/wrangle data using dplyr, pandas, or other packages/languages.
- Experience with a variety of machine learning models and dimension reduction techniques including but not limited to: linear/logistic regression and other generalized linear models, tree based methods such as CARTs, random forests, boosting, SVMs, penalized methods such as ridge and LASSO (elastic nets), PCA, t-SNE, clustering methods, and other methods that can be applied to create predictive or inferential/descriptive models.
- Ability to code in R, Python, SQL, and other TBD languages.
- Employ and/or modify existing statistical methodology to solve data problems.
- Engineer or derive new features for increased accuracy of future predictions from a trained ML model.
- Comfortable with version control (git) in local and remote setting (GitHub/Azure DevOps) and working as a team developing large software solutions.
- Write unit tests to assure reliability and accuracy of software results.
- Create exploratory and descriptive analyses using Jupyter, RMarkdown, or similar technology.
CLA exists to create opportunities for our people, our clients, and our communities. We are a proud equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability status, protected veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.
