Data Scientist

About Ascendion :

Ascendion is a full service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000 Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands

Solve complex problems - and learn new skills

Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients

Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

Title : Data Scientist 4

Location : Redmond, WA (Hybrid)

Summary:

• This is a Marketing Data Science role. Marketing analytics experience required.
• Measure what actually drives our player acquisition, reactivation, and long-term value across marketing channels.
• This role will own campaign post-mortems, attribution modeling, and marketing funnel analysis — connecting upstream spend and impressions to downstream engagement and monetization outcomes.
• You will partner with Growth Marketing and Finance to inform budget decisions and build the measurement frameworks that scale our marketing effectiveness.
• The ideal candidate blends analytical rigor with marketing intuition and can translate complex attribution results into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with senior management, technical and client teams in order to determine data requirements, business data implementation approaches, best practices for advanced data manipulation, storage and analysis strategies
• Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions
• Design, implement, automate and maintain large scale enterprise data ETL processes
• Modify existing databases and database management systems and/or direct programmers and analysts to make changes
• Test programs or databases, correct errors and make necessary modifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• 8-10 years applicable experience required
• Experience with database technologies
• Knowledge of the ETL process
• Knowledge of at least one scripting language
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skill
• Demonstrated history of success
• Desire to be working with data and helping businesses make better data driven decisions

Explain a typical day in the role.:

• Partner with Marketing, business, and finance teams on understanding and analyzing digital marketing campaigns - understanding KPIs, creating measurement plans, and driving post mortem analyses for campaigns.
• Build segmentation and KPI foundations for performance marketing. Collaborate with analytics engineers on building automations and reporting.

Top 3 Must-Have HARD Skills & years of experience for each:

• Marketing analytics
• SQL/Python
• Databricks is strongly preferred for candidates to have but not required

Salary Range: $1,66,000 - 1,76,000 Annually -Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertain to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year]

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