Direct Supply | Senior Data Scientist | Milwaukee, WI | United States | BigDataKB.com | 2023/01/18

Direct Supply, Inc. is currently seeking a qualified candidate to serve as a Senior Data Scientist to build Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) solutions to solve complex business problems in Milwaukee, WI.

Duties Include: Understand business problems, validate requirements, ensure scope of request and translate business problems into data science problem statements; Provide consultative statistical inference, presents findings and simplify complex statistical analysis for broad understanding to senior leadership and business leaders to understand the short- and long-term effects of applying ML solutions to solve business problems while proposing ways to measure and mitigate potential issues; Implement and support proprietary AI/ML solutions built by the Direct Supply Research Data Scientists, which includes troubleshooting problems, retraining models, and analyzing and updating data pipelines; Create and maintain AI/ML solutions on a variety of programming platforms such as Spark/Scala, R, Python and Hadoop and utilize big data/cloud solutions like AWS and Azure; Deploy AI solutions such as chatbots, machine vision, natural language processing, voice etc. in cloud-based production environments as a service; Solve business models algorithmically using econometric approaches such as zero-sum games, multi-market models, optimization etc. Present findings to senior leadership, simplifying the analysis for understanding and consult on solutions; Use querying languages such as SQL to perform comprehensive data analysis and validate solutions utilizing a thorough understanding of Direct Supply data structures and external data sets related to senior living; Build presentations, reporting and visualizations for business consumption using Rmarkdown, shiny server, bokeh, matplotlib, and ggplot; Partner with cross-functional partners including Business Analysts, Engineers and Data Scientists to design experiments and implement scalable solutions, and Manage multiple projects and ensure timely completion of assigned work. Provide status updates and delivery dates as appropriate to leadership and product managers.

Minimum Qualifications: The minimum entry requirements for the Senior Data Scientist position are a Masters’ Degree in Computational Science, Computing, Computer Science, Software Engineering Mathematics, Statistics, or Healthcare Informatics and 2 years of professional experience working in a data driven consultation role including Advanced Analytics, Data Science, AI/ML, or Statistical Consulting which must include and can be gained concurrently: 2 years in programming tools such as R, Matlab, or Python and database technology such as SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDN or Neo4j; Proficiency in advanced mathematics such as derivatives, integrals, coordinate geometry and linear algebra, as demonstrated by relevant coursework; 2 years using statistical learning approaches such as dimension reduction, sampling, cross validation, support vector machines, generalized linear models.

Pre-employment drug test required. Candidate must have references for work experience that confirm experience. Candidates will also be subject to a criminal background check, and may be rejected if criminal convictions are substantially related to the position applied for, in accordance with applicable law. For more information, contact or reply by résumé to Megan Thull, Senior HR Generalist, Direct Supply, Inc., 7301 W. Champions Way, Milwaukee, WI 53223 (Phone) 414-760-5682 (E-mail)

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