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Data Scientist |
**Job Title** Data Scientist **Location** Phoenix, AZ ** Job Description** WWT seeks to hire a data scientist in the Phoenix metropolitan area to support a long term Data-Driven Innovation initiative with an industrial customer. The position will require working on site at the customer in Phoenix, with some limited travel (less than 20%) in Arizona and New Mexico. _Responsibilities_ : + Work with teams of customers and subject matter experts to help solve operational problems + Select the best analytical methods to achieve the business objectives of each problem + Review the work of junior data analysts + Incorporate innovative algorithms and techniques + Develop and test analytical methods and help put them into production + Create documentation on methods and production code to facilitate knowledge transfer + Troubleshoot errors and other post-production issues **Qualifications** RESPONSIBILITIES: * Work closely with customers and business, engineering and technology teams * Extract data from customer sources systems into Big-Data software environments * Shape data for analysis in Hadoop, NoSQL, Hive, HBase and other ecosystem tools * Use statistical and programming tools, such as R and Python, to analyze data and develop solutions to business problems * Stay current with new development in Big Data (e.g. Spark, AzureML) * Perform quality control of deliverables * Prepare reports and presentations, and communicate with executives. Support pre-sales efforts * Provide thought leadership in algorithmic and process innovations, and creativity in solving unconventional problems |