Senior Data Scientist

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist Location: Madison, NJ Duration :: Contract Responsibilities: • Deeply understand business needs and translate business needs to a technical project. • Identify appropriate data sources to use. Perform data aggregations and feature engineering as needed. • Write Python programming code to make visualizations, build and implement models. • Be flexible and open to innovative ideas and alternative ways of solving problems. • Present the results to non-tech partners and influence them to use predictive models. • Develop, validate, and deploy advanced machine learning models to predict business outcomes and inform strategic and operational decisions. • Build and evaluate predictive models used in production systems, including real-time scoring and model-driven product workflows. • Assess model impact via A/B testing and other experimental methods to optimize business outcomes. • Stay abreast of industry best practices and state-of-the-art methodology in data science. Qualifications: • Master or Ph.D's degree in Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field. • Proficiency in SQL and Python programming languages. • In-depth understanding of statistical knowledge and machine learning algorithms. • Specifically, expertise with the following techniques is a must-have to perform daily work: K-Means, Linear Regression and GLM, Random Forest, GBM, XGBoost, various segmentation techniques etc. • Excellent communication skills. • Ability to work on large-scale cross functional projects. • 2+ years of experience in data science with a proven track record of delivering successful, end-to-end data science projects is a plus.