Data Scientist - Plano, TX Remote - Contract job vacancy

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Job Title: Data Scientist Location: Plano, TX / remote Duration: 12+ Months Job description:

In order to maximize benefits offered by data science, it is essential to understand the information in terms of business practicality, manage this information and to apply the information knowledge into business use cases that have a measurable return.
To successfully accomplish this, data must be distilled down to a point where relevant information patterns can be understood and leveraged to modify business operations as well as human behavior.
One of the many functions of data science is the management of iterative process that essentially casts a wide net across the myriad of systems, Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in order to create a data set that that can be mined for applicable information patterns.
This is accomplish through data engineering and program level resources seeing that information is where it needs to be for the data scientist to unlock discrete patterns in the data that tell a unique and often unknown story that typically results in opportunity, defined in a use case.
Once understood the applicable business processes and supporting systems can be modified to take advantage of the unique understanding of the underlying data.
Data Science is responsible for the advanced analytics and data solutions.
Data Engineers, system engineers and scrum masters
Technologies used: Python, Spark and Hadoop

Responsibilities:

Obtaining, Cleaning and Analysing Unstructured Data
Writing software and scripts to extract insights from data. Projects from Proof of Concept (PoC) thru production
Create models and use Machine Learning and AI tools and best practices to solve problems and obtain insights
Create visualizations (i.e., Charts)
Find anomalies in data and write relevant software to automate these processes
Maintain code quality through unit testing. Troubleshoot and resolve issues in software that is being developed
Collaborate with the team, customers and leadership to produce best in class ML/AI solutions
Will have to present findings to the team, clients and higher management

Mandatory Skills Description:

Computer Science background - with a focus on Data Science
3-4 years of actual data science experience
Python
Spark
Working knowledge of Hadoop (hive, hbase, phoenix, Scala) - (Being able to get data and analyse data in a Hadoop environment)
R and R-Cloud
SQL (querying and working with major SQL DBs - e.g., Oracle, Postgres, MySQL)
Strong communications and presentation skills
Self-driven, willing and able to learn and adopt new technologies

Nice-to-Have Skills:

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