Data Scientist

Company: Deloitte
Location: San Diego
Posted on: June 24, 2022

Job Description:

Junior Data Scientist

At Deloitte Digital Marketing and Experience Services (Hux), we help marketers optimize their customer experience to win in the marketplace. We're combining data, decision making and real-time delivery to build and manage customer data ecosystems that enable our clients to acquire, engage and retain customers in a dramatically different and improved manner. With customer data as a foundation, we help clients deliver dynamic, personalized customer experiences across all engagement channels using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Do you enjoy exploring datasets? Are you passionate about creating algorithms that operate on terabytes of data? If so, Deloitte Digital is seeking creative minds and persistent problem solvers to build and support cutting-edge marketing data science solutions that help our clients deliver customer value at every touchpoint.

We're growing fast and need brilliant Data Scientists like you to fuel our continuing innovation and help us scale. Along the way, you'll find exceptional growth opportunities limited only by your hunger for learning and ability to apply best practice methodology in our start-up-like environment.

What you will be doing

Asa DataScientist ,you will be tasked with solving data problems end to end. This means:

• Performing exploratory data analysistounderstandrelationships, opportunities to influence outcomes and how to attribute cross channel outcomes
• Running experiments and extracting the necessary data
• Being able to interpret the models being generated
• Developinga proof of concept to verify your ideas
• Closing the loop to make sure theproposed solution is performing as it should once it is released Page Break
  Our team
  
  You'll join a team of passionate, talented data scientists who collaborate to design, build and maintain cutting-edge models that arm our clients with the ability to spot customer value and act upon it. If you're intellectually curious, hardworking and solution-oriented, you'll fit right into our fast-paced, collaborative environment. In addition to working with our data science team, you'll also work closely with our data engineering team to develop top-of-the-line data pipelines.
  
  Qualifications
  
  • Bachelors/Master's degree required in a quantitative field (engineering, mathematics, physics, machine learning, statistics or computer science).
  • 4+ years of industry experience in solving data science problems outside of academia.
  • 2+ years of experience manipulating big data using opensource frameworks. This means being familiar with tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Docker and Kubernetes/Kubeflow. In addition, because we handle very large volumes of data, past work with cloud-based environment is required.
  • Knowledge of advanced feature engineering techniques and ensemble models like Xgboost and light GBB or equivalent.
  • Ability to write high-qualityPython code and familiarity with unit testing, source control and code review
  • Experience working in Agile teams and using Scrums to organize work
  • Demonstratedcommunication capabilities.Ability to explain your insights to people beyond the data science team. This means knowing how to best craft your message and selecting the right visualizations
  • Good problem decomposition skills and autonomy when faced with solving data problems.
  • Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
  • Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
    Preferred skills:
    
    • A deep interest in Data Science and AI. A good measure of this would be competition participation (Kaggle or other) as well as participation in open courses
    • A deep interest in Data Science and AI. A good measure of this would be competition participation (Kaggle or other) as well as participation in open courses
    • A proven ability deploying automated data processing pipelines.
    • If you have code in the open domain (for exampleGithub) or have written about AI/DS,please share this with us
    • Some experience in Ad Tech or Marketing technology is a plus.

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