Senior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Amazon RedShift, Analytical and Problem solving, Apache Hive, Effective communication skills, MySQL, Python Programming, SPARK Programming, SQL, Statistical modeling

Job Description

The Role:

As part of the Valuation Services division of JD Power, you will work to understand what features drive a vehicle's price and predict future values. Our data science team is accountable for every data point we output and provides industry-leading, accurate, transparent analytics. We are looking for a Data Scientist who will be free to utilize the latest technologies to solve challenging problems, create innovative machine learning processes from the ground up, deploy them into production on our AWS server, and develop the tools for monitoring them. We are a mature and tight-knit data science team looking to add another top-shelf team member ready to make a difference in the automotive industry. Join us! 

The Impact:

We make data products and every new data product we output will solve a problem in the auto industry. Every Data Scientist will build models that go into production and directly impact our core products.

About the Job:

• Daily immersion in automotive industry data
• Work directly with clients to help them understand our predictive products and methodology
• Create decks to make highly technical predictions relatable to the automotive industry
• Documentation of machine learning processes
• Build, maintain, and iterate on production machine learning algorithms
• Collaborate closely with technology and engineering teams to improve existing processes and build out new ones
• Work with the product team to develop the analytics that will power new products
• Create visual reports in Tableau for internal and external clients that summarize findings
• Team environment that encourages the sharing of ideas to build the best predictive algorithms
• Ad-hoc data analysis and reporting

What you Need:

• Ability to communicate technical processes to a lay audience
• Presentation experience
• Curiosity and passion for solving problems with data
• 4+ years of professional experience working with large datasets
• 4+ years of professional experience with statistical programming software (Spark, Python preferred)
• 4+ years of professional experience with database software (RedShift, Hive, SQL, MYSQL)
• Master’s Degree in Statistics, Data Science, Economics, or a related field

Nice to Have:

• Experience with automotive market data
• Professional expertise deploying cloud-based ML Ops systems
• Experience working with AWS tools (Sagemaker, Glue, Batch, Lamdba…)
• Some shareable examples of data visualizations you have created
• Experience deploying machine learning models into production with an API
• PhD in Statistics, Data Science, Economics, or related field
• Love of the Fast and Furious franchise

The Career Opportunity:

Grow as a full-stack data scientist in a medium-sized team. You will pipeline data, build models, deploy them in the cloud, and build monitoring suites.

The Hiring Manager says:

We want data science candidates who can think through a customer journey and an industry thoroughly, creatively and intuitively to explain and predict issues that have not yet been resolved (in large part because they are only emerging). We need the capability to leverage the right data sets from an impressive set of data assets that is unrivaled in this space at your disposal.

The Way We Work:

• Leader Led
• Remote First
• Foster Flexibility
• Reward Performance
• Time Off Matters