Senior Director, Data Science

Key Skills

AI technology, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Machine learning techniques, Microsoft Office suites

Job Description

Leader of the team. This role is critical in bringing together the scope of machine learning projects across Adtalem, including cloud-based projects (GCP), Marketing, and student outcome models. This will make the team immediately more multifaceted to deliver more analytics to stakeholders. Critical leader in orchestrating adoption of machine learning across the company ultimately into the hands of our intuitional leaders. This role will manage the team's analytical agenda, leading initiatives, providing direction, assigning resources, directing work, following up, and communicating with senior business leaders across the company and discussing client-facing results with stakeholders. Examples of areas that need focused, additional resources to build and deliver cloud-based machine learning are Actionable Insights (Marketing), Innovation, Student Outcomes, Applied AI, Operational Effectiveness etc. These are multi-year initiatives that should revolutionize how we scale and create value for customers and drive revenue.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team's efforts to perform cloud-based machine learning to create solutions, solve problems, identify opportunities, risks, and trends.
• Communicate with senior leadership across stakeholders.
• Be a major contributor to the thought leadership interactions with business units and clients as it relates to client, trading, market, and digital analytics, especially combining those datasets for holistic analysis and fuller pattern recognition.
• Drive the evolving enterprise-level machine learning roadmap.
• Deliver machine learning for in-scope projects for customer-focused cloud-based analytics and business units.
• Lead team efforts to deliver the following:
• Collaborate with stakeholders and technology providers across Adtalem’ s value streams.
• Plan, resource, and coordinate the deliverables
• Operationalize machine learning on Vertex AI ML Ops platform and various other tools, unlocking value for Adtalem and stakeholders.
• Lead large, multi-faceted analytical projects, managing the tasks and resources to deliver valuable insight or capabilities.
• Use product and market knowledge to lead scoping discussions with business units and apply team analytical skills to deliver results.
• Lead interactions with stakeholders to proliferate understanding, incorporate feedback, refine analytical agenda and deliver output.
• Lead the team to perform machine learning on student, faculty and products structures to identify and understand opportunities, risks, and trends.
• Understand LMS, LCMS, CRM and SIS data wealth.
• Make presentations to leadership stakeholders on analysis performed.
• Drive visualization and adoption of model outputs internally or by collaborating with IT.
• Assist business in conceptualizing model output integration
• As a thought leader, participate and lead client discussions and communicate analysis performed to inform clients and further their understanding of Adtalem’s priorities. Be a strategic stakeholder and collaborator with technology providers on how we build the right infrastructure and processes to become an agile company and deliver the capabilities we need to perform analytics faster and more efficiently. Ensure the team stays current with leading edge systems, methods, and best practices for data science, machine learning, and cloud capabilities. Clearly identify model impact on business and base model strategy where business value lies.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree required in Business, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science or equivalent experience utilizing a different BS/BA degree.
• Master’s degree preferred in Applied Statistics, Statistics, Computer Science, or advanced Math, Engineering.

Work Experience

• Minimum 12 years of business, analytical, and technical experience required.
• Minimum of 6 years of management experience.
• Expertise in cloud-based technologies such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.
• Ability to create code and perform machine learning, predictive analytics, Applied AI, etc.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced communication and organizational skills.
• Advanced knowledge of capital markets, derivative products, and trading technologies.
• Advanced skills in programming and coding (e.g. R, Python, SQL, or Java).
• Advanced data analytics skills.
• Advanced ability to translate and relate IT terminology to business needs.
• Knowledge and familiarity with Tableau, Looker, InfoSource, and Qlikview, PowerBI.
• Knowledge and familiarity with Google Cloud Platform.
• Not be afraid of hard work and doing things smarter, taking initiative and providing leadership.
• Experience with Vertex AI ML Ops platform.
• Experience with systems in the Education Space.

EEO

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. At Adtalem, we welcome everyone and have a strong commitment towards diversity and inclusion. We encourage our Colleagues to be their true authentic selves and support laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. We also maintain a drug-free workplace.