Data Scientist

Data Scientist
Remote
Pay: $100,000-$120,000

Overview

Responsible for gathering and assessing business information needs and preparing system requirements. Performs analyses, development, and evaluation of data mining in a data warehouse environment, including data design, database architecture, metadata, and repository creation. Uses data mining and data analysis tools. Reviews and validates data loaded into the data warehouse for accuracy. Interacts with the user community to produce reporting requirements. Provides technical consulting to users of the various data warehouses and advises users on conflicts and inappropriate data usage. Responsible for prototyping solutions, preparing test scripts, conducting tests, and for data replication, extraction, loading, cleansing, and data modeling for data warehouses. Maintains knowledge of software tools, languages, scripts, and shells that effectively support the data warehouse environment in different operating system environments. Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code. Responsibilities may also include participation in component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation, and buy versus build recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for gathering and assessing business information needs and preparing system requirements.
• Performs analyses, development, and evaluation of data mining in a data warehouse environment which includes data design, database architecture, metadata, and repository creation.
• Uses data mining and data analysis tools.
• Reviews and validates data loaded into the data warehouse for accuracy.
• Interacts with user community to produce reporting requirements.
• Provides technical consulting to users of the various data warehouses and advises users on conflicts and inappropriate data usage.
• Responsible for prototyping solutions, preparing test scripts, and conducting tests.
• Data replication, extraction, loading, cleansing, and data modeling for data warehouses.
• Maintains knowledge of software tools, languages, scripts, and shells that support the data warehouse environment in different operating system environments.
• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code.
• Participation in component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation, and buy versus build recommendations.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.
• Typically has 5 - 8 years of IT work experience in business intelligence tools and systems.
• Possesses working knowledge of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and data warehouse front-end tools.
• Must have an extensive knowledge of data warehouse and data mart concepts.
• Experience in systems analysis, design, and a solid understanding of development, quality assurance, and integration methodologies.
• Typically has 7 years of programming/systems analysis experience.