Data Scientist

Ridgefield, CT


Contract Duration: 13-24 months


Rate: Negotiable


Salary: NA $1.00


Responsibilities:

• Excellent employment opportunity for a Data Scientist in the Ridgefield, CT area.
• Delivering successful data science projects: Understand business problems and design end-to-end data science use cases
• Collaborate across the business to understand data, IT and business constraints
• Collaborate with developers to implement and deploy scalable solutions
• Establish best data operational practices and maintain all compliance requirements
• Establish the monitoring of data science models in production
• Use agile approach to initiatives and launches
• Achieving high analytical quality of delivered projects: Apply expertise in data science to design, prototype, and build the next-generation analytics engines and services
• Generate hypotheses about the underlying mechanics of the business process together with domain experts
• Identify, evaluate and implement the most appropriate algorithm for the specific challenge

• Master's/Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution in quantitative discipline such as Business Analytics, Theoretical Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, etc. with 3+ years Data Science experience.
• Advanced Scientific Degree desirable, e.g. PhD, MD
• Advanced experience in using complex analytical and technical skills to convert raw data into actionable business insights as well as creating, evaluating and implementing data science solutions with (3+) years of experience.
• This includes data preparation, data visualization, exploratory analysis and software development related to data science.
• (3+) years of experience in relevant computing languages such as R, Python and C++
• Experienced in handling unusual data sets such as unstructured data or big data (MapReduce approaches, HDFS, Hadoop architectures, Pig, Spark)
• Experienced in handling databases including ability to run queries
• Basic understanding of web scraping and text processing
• Strong intrinsic appetite to develop technical skills
• English working proficiency and communication skills (verbal and written)
• Knowledge of state-of-the-art agile principles and practices for software product development and delivery
• Initiates and drives activities with minimal guidance
• Entrepreneurial and agile mindset / out-of-the-box thinking
• Computer Vision skills and Pharma experience desired