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EMC Insurance Companies · 7 hours ago

Data Scientist II

Iowa, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

$77K/yr - $106K/yr

1+ years exp

EMC Insurance Companies is dedicated to making a positive impact through teamwork and innovation. The Data Scientist II role involves creating data science solutions, analyzing business needs, and developing models to provide insights and support decision-making processes.

Financial ServicesInsurance

Responsibilities

Under general guidance, creates innovative data science solutions

Analyzes business partners’ needs and gathers structured and/or unstructured data to create a modeling dataset, including cleaning and pre-processing data

Designs and builds appropriate solutions (e.g. neural network, predictive model, mapping solution, data analysis, and visualizations)

Discovers business insights using statistical analysis, algorithmic processing, data science, machine learning, data mining, and/or reporting visualization techniques as determined through individual analysis of the problem

Translates analytical results into business meaning and presents ideas to business areas to address and resolve their problems

Guides business partners through business problem identification and discovery, and potential solutions

Gathers detailed information regarding specific business issues, needs, business processes impacted, and how the business unit intends to use the tools or solutions developed and translates those to detailed project requirements

Develops documentation throughout the entire analytic life cycle of each project

Qualification

Data analysis techniquesMachine learningProgramming in RProgramming in PythonSQLHadoopData visualization toolsAnalytical skillsVerbal communicationWritten communicationProblem-solving abilities

Required

Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or related field and two years of experience in data science

Master's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or related field and one year of experience in data science

Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or related field and Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics (CSPA) designation and one year of experience in data science

Strong knowledge of data analysis tools and techniques, such as GLMs, decision trees, GBMs, random forests, boosting, bagging, neural networks, further statistical analysis, machine learning, or deep learning techniques

Strong knowledge of programming within R, Python, SQL, Hadoop, and other data visualization tools

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to translate technical ideas into more general terms for business customers

Strong analytical, investigation, and problem-solving abilities