Cybersecurity Data Scientist Manager

Key Skills

Agile methodologies, Cyber Security, Databricks, Docker, Github, Python Programming, SaaS, SPARK Programming

Job Description

ABOUT CTS CYBERSECURITY

You will be an innovator in the Cybersecurity division of Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS). (https://www.comcasttechnologysolutions.com/about-us) This division specializes in offering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and subscription-based security solutions to large enterprises and the federal government. For the first time ever, customers are now able to purchase some of the best of Comcast’s own in-house security technologies (https://www.comcasttechnologysolutions.com/cybersecurity-suite). These solutions are proven-at-scale to defend critical infrastructure and effectively reduce cost. The Cybersecurity Suite efficiently improves security and compliance while keeping costs in check.

Responsible for leading a team which extract knowledge and insights from high volume, high dimensional data in order to allow customers to investigate sophisticated business problems through a range of data preparation, modeling, analysis and/or visualization techniques, which may include the use of sophisticated statistical analysis, algorithms, predictive modeling, experimentation and pattern recognition. Responsible for leading a team which craft, develop and programs methods, processes, and systems to consolidate and analyze unstructured, diverse “big data” sources to generate actionable insights and solutions for customers. The team is composed of experts in artificial intelligence, deep learning, data-structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and system performance and analysis. Leads a team including US and India-based members. Provides subject matter mentorship to employees as the need arises. Helps to develop processes and procedures to drive department efficiencies. Assists in development and meeting of departmental budget. In the role of Cyber Data Scientist Manager, you will be an important contributor within Comcast Technology Solution’s exciting new cyber security business unit, which sells SaaS and subscription security solutions to the large enterprise and federal government. Working with the Vice President of Engineering Cyber, you will be primarily responsible for developing analytics and data exploitation solutions for DataBee, a new SaaS security, risk and compliance platform that was developed internally and used inside Comcast’s SOC, and is now being made available for use by the Fortune 500 CISO customer base. You will work in a high pace, collaborative engineering environment to deliver value for DataBee customers. In addition to leading and mentoring a team of software engineers, you will also be a senior individual contributor. You will be influential in crafting a startup culture for the DataBee business unit, enabling and empowering your teammates to work in an agile fashion.

Core Responsibilities

• Interacts with product and field engineering teams to identify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments.
• Leads development and coding of software programs, algorithms and automated processes to cleanse, integrate and evaluate large datasets from multiple disparate sources.
• Uses analytical rigor and statistical methods to analyze large amounts of data, extracting practical insights using sophisticated statistical techniques such as data analysis, data mining, optimization tools and machine learning techniques and statistics
• Leads development and execution of statistical and mathematical solutions to business problems to support larger initiatives.
• Leads creation of data mining architectures/models/protocols, statistical reporting, and data analysis methodologies to identify trends in large data sets.
• Leads the production of analysis of historical patterns in customer behaviors and product performance from large, noisy, and complex datasets. Leads development and deployment of predictive models based on historical data that provide future predictions about customer behavior.
• Researches, educates and applies knowledge of existing and emerging data science principles, theories, and techniques to inform business decisions.
• Crafts and is responsible for deliverables and presentations that report methodology and results of analysis.
• Owns the development of customer centric models and optimization tools to support large scale projects that use streaming and at-rest processing over structured and unstructured data.
• Understand platform usage and assist with production deployments and customer issue triage.
• Develop security features as part of the development and adopt the DevSecOps culture.
• Use and improve on tools to identify and mitigate production incidents.
• Build re-usable software components or libraries that can be used by multiple teams, where needed.
• Build self-contained microservices or application programming interfaces to support the business logic.
• Use content management systems as applicable and global design patterns and defined coding standards and practices established by the team.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as vital.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Additional Required Skills and Experience:

• Expertise in Python.
• Proven expertise developing analytics in Databricks and/or Spark.
• Experience developing and implementing microservices containing sophisticated analytical logic.
• Demonstrated expertise in working with cybersecurity data sets and applying machine learning techniques to aid in security compliance and/or threat hunting.
• Experience in parsing and cleansing data. Highly preferred if experienced in the application of machine learning to aid in data parsing and normalization.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum development environments.
• Experience working with GitHub and Jira or similar technologies.
• Experience using Python unit test frameworks.
• Experience using Docker.
• Experience developing on a SaaS product.

Education: Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience: 5-7 Years

Salary: National Pay Range: $96,525.18 USD-$226,230.89 USD