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Director, Data Science Operations
Location
Illinois
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$160.6K - $226.5K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Data Science Operations
Kemper
• Analyze, estimate & define data transformation req. to load data into EDW, Snowflake, Postgres, S3 (enterprise production & custom-built analytics environment). • Create ETL architecture & design flows to illustrate data mvmt from production to analytics environments (new & legacy AWS analytics environments). • Design & develop database code software. • Analyze project & make strategy for analytics data solutions & AI model support & deployment. • ETL & analytics S3 storage projects. • Lead analytics/data science ETL projects. • Lead team. • Evaluate organization's tech. needs, create POCs for new implementation or tech. enhancement & recommend improvements.
Job Requirements
- Bach. degree, or foreign equiv., in Comp Sci, Eng’g, Math, Physics or related field.
- 10 yrs exp. in job offered or as Database Architect or Data Warehousing Specialist.
- 10 yrs exp w/ SQL & adapt skills in multiple relational tech. (Redshift, Hive, SparkSQL etc.); event oriented, Reactive architectures.
- 8 yrs exp w/ Python data skills w/ Pandas, & XML/JSON parsing.
- 5 yrs exp w/ AWS tech. Redshift, Glue, DynamoDB, S3; streaming platforms such as Spark Streaming, Flink & workflow mgrs such as Airflow; at least one ETL tool such as Informatica, Pentaho, SAP, etc.
- 2 yrs exp implementing at scale, messaging sys. such as Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka; languages such as Java or Scala.
Benefits
- Qualify for your choice of health and dental plans within your first month.
- Save for your future with robust 401(k) match, Health Spending Accounts and various retirement plans.
- Learn and Grow with our Tuition Assistance Program, paid certifications and continuing education programs.
- Contribute to your community through United Way and volunteer programs.
- Balance your life with generous paid time off and business casual dress.
- Get employee discounts for shopping, dining and travel through Kemper Perks.
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