Data Scientist

Description:

Medix is currently seeking Statistician / Data Scientist for a contract opportunity with one of our best Marketing Analytics clients

Our client conducts targeted analytics applied to a variety of marketing initiatives across the healthcare, finance, insurance and consumer goods industries. They are seeking this Statistician / Data Scientist to build end to end multivariate models to predict customer behaviors and conduct segmentation / survival analysis.

We are seeking Statisticians who have strong Python and R experience, and who would be interested in learning PySpark for processing large data sets.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conducting analysis to determine the best predictive analysis approach, using a variety of independent variables.
• Planning for, and executing end to end statistical and predictive modeling projects
• Obtaining raw data from clients, as well as from paid subscription data sources
• Planning for, designing and building predictive models for use cases applied across the marketing industry, such as customer segmentation, propensity scoring, survival analysis, andm ore.
• Building and tuning a variety of multivariate predictive models, and moving them to production

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Required Bachelor Degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics or Data Science.
• Masters Degree preferred
• Minimum 5 years experience as a Data Scientist or Statistician
• Experience with Apache Spark and/or PySpark is preferred