Principal Data Scientist
Kforce Inc

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Kforce's client in Maitland, FL is seeking a Principal Data Scientist. The client is open to candidates in Charlotte, NC, Maitland, FL or St. Louis, MO.Summary:In this role, the Principal Data Scientist is responsible for leading the development of data-driven solutions to the client's business problems. The Principal Data Scientist utilizes analytical, statistical, and programming skills to clean, aggregate, and analyze large data sets and interpret results. This position requires a strong command of statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms, as well as a demonstrated ability to present findings to audiences and varying levels of technical expertise.Responsibilities:

• Principal Data Scientist will plan and lead analytics life-cycle for problem solving, including: requirements gathering, problem formulation, data grooming, data exploration, model prototyping, model validation, and algorithm productionalization
• Plan effectively to ensure analytics products are flexible, modular, and contain reusable code base
• Identify future technical needs of assigned projects to continue to grow capabilities
• Coordinate technical activities across projects and the organization
• Interact with stakeholders to understand their business needs, communicate project status and develop relationships to ensure satisfaction; Utilize experience to anticipate hurdles & recommend solutions in line with business needs
• Build and drive project plans to help team achieve defined project goals within deadlines
• Lead large-scale data analyses for new and existing data sources and find new, interesting data correlations
• Principal Data Scientist is responsible for interpretation of results - for both causal inferences and predictive sensitivity and specificity
• Lead teams to integrate new technologies into the team's work process

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with data manipulation and statistical modeling as a Scientist, Consultant, Architect, DBA, or Engineer
• SQL/R/Python programming experience
• Experience with leading the design, development and deployment of machine learning models
• Skills in one or more scripting, analysis, or ETL languages, ability to readily read and adapt others' code, and ability to rapidly learn new languages or techniques
• Experience with analysis language such as R and/or Python (including relevant packages) in support of advanced analytics
• Experience with the properties of the major families of machine learning models (regression, decision trees, clustering, SVMs, neural networks)
• Experience with modern machine learning technology and tools in order to produce model scoring code
• Command of advanced mathematical concepts including calculus, PDEs, probability, and statistics
• Understanding of data architecture, data warehouse and data marts
• Ability and desire to continually expand skill set, and learn from and teach others
• Experience with data store technologies, such as NoSQL, key-value, columnar, graph, and document
• Experience with large data sets and the tools to obtain, transform, and store data on Big Data and streaming services
• Program, product, or project management experience delivering analytics results
• Strong background in Linux/Unix/CentOS
• Ability to identify and resolve end-to-end performance, network, server, cloud, and platform issues

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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