Data Scientist I
Location
Maryland + 1 moreAll locations: Maryland | North Carolina
Posted
24 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Data Scientist I
HelioCampus
• Communicate with stakeholders to determine institutional goals, and design analyses and data visualizations to provide insight to complex business problems. • Conduct exploratory data analysis in collaboration with subject matter experts to build and validate analytical datasets. • Develop statistical and machine learning models (classification, time series, etc.) using a custom python framework to generate scores and forecasts. • Present predictive modeling results and operational dashboards to end-users at colleges and universities to help them understand and make use of the findings and scores. • Work with data science and data engineering teams to build data pipelines, improve internal systems, and deploy and maintain models in a production environment. • Collaborate with other data scientists to share knowledge, develop best practices, and contribute to documentation, process standardization, and product development. • Occasionally travel (typically 1-3 days at a time, ~3 times per year) to HelioCampus offices and client sites for meetings and presentations.
Job Requirements
- Experience building analyses using educational industry data at a Higher Ed institution or EdTech company, especially in the areas of admissions, enrollment, financial aid, student success, institutional effectiveness, or finance/budget.
- 3+ years of experience delivering analytical insights to higher ed stakeholders, including building and evaluating machine learning models (python and scikit-learn experience required).
- Analytical dataset design and feature engineering skills (SQL and python).
- Ability to conduct, interpret, and explain statistical analyses.
- Experience using interactive data visualization and business intelligence tools (Tableau and/or Power BI) to design and publish interactive reports and dashboards, enabling data exploration and communication of analysis results.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and experience working with both business users and technical development teams, as well as presenting findings to decision-makers.
- Ability to work effectively and independently in a remote role, managing multiple priorities and meeting deliverable deadlines.
- Understanding of model transparency & explainability concepts, and ethical issues in data science.
- Familiarity with production data pipeline and model deployment and management.
- Familiarity with relational database and data warehouse concepts.
- Familiarity with a variety of machine learning methodologies, forecasting techniques, and generative AI (LLMs).
- A tool-agnostic approach to data science: excitement for adopting new tools and techniques, while having solid fundamentals that underpin quick learning and high quality work delivery.
Benefits
- paid time off
- healthcare
- vision
- dental
- 401(k) w/ company match
- parental leave
- remote work flexibility
- home office perks
- fun, collaborative work environment
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