Job Location: St Louis, MO
MON1JP00029997 (Data Analyst)-REMOTE
COMPENSATION:
$48.00 Per Hour W2 ONLY NO Benefits NO PTO
OR
$78,000 with Benefits and PTO
Start Date: 09/23/2022:
Location: Creve Coeur MO,
Description:
Business Unit US-5172-Climate Corporation (5172)
Total Hours 880.00
Description:
Position Overview:
Our Client is looking for a Data Analyst to join the Sustainability & Outreach team. Our team is focused on quantifying and visualizing the outcomes of on-farm management practices to drive customer adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices and support our enterprise sustainability commitments. In this role you will be accountable for working with a broad set of global stakeholders internally to drive data collection and model processing to support corporate sustainability outcomes and reporting.
As part of our diverse, highly dynamic group, you will work side-by-side with a team of exceptional data scientists with diverse backgrounds– Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Agronomy, and more–to deliver next-generation scientific solution for sustainable agriculture, while fostering your career growth and development
What You Will Do:
* Explore, learn, and practice state-of-art agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint quantification methodologies.
* Coordinate data collection, data validation, and execute crop production GHG footprint calculation (through 3rd party API) to facilitate company carbon commitment and reporting.
* Interpret & visualize crop production GHG footprint, and deliver insight to global stakeholders to drive adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices.
* Help to build internal infrastructural tools/pipelines to automate quantification of crop production GHG footprint.
* Write beautiful, robust, well-documented code.
Basic Qualifications:
* MS OR BS (+2 years of experience) in Computer Science, Statistics, or related fields
* Fluency in Python (required) and SQL (preferred)
* Knowledge of API architecture (REST). On-hand experience of API service (request) and data crawling (butterfly)
* Proven experience with python visualization libraries (Matplotlib, seaborn, plotly, etc..)
* Detail-oriented, and good sense of data quality.
* Strong communication skills and the ability to work with diverse cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:
* Knowledge in farming, ecology, agronomy, or remote sensing
* Experience in dashboard building (Dash, Flask)
* Knowledge in python package building (conda, PyPi)
* Experience with good coding practices such as version control, code documentation, automated testing, and code review
* Proficiency in programming computational algorithms for big and complex data sets (Spark)
* Familiarity with multiple regression techniques, multivariate analysis, mixed models
* Business communication proficiency in Spanish
• Why is this position open? Growth on the team, turn over, skills gap?
• Growth on the team. Currently one of the team members is overloaded by this work, so we would like to recruit a contractor to take over the part.
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• Location of this role (CC, North Campus, Chesterfield, etc)?
• Remote. If the candidate would like to be at an office site, it can be in Creve Coeur, San Francisco, Seattle or Chicago.
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• What is a day like in this role? What 3-5 responsibilities will occupy their time?
• 1) Explore, learn, and practice state-of-art agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint quantification methodologies.
• 2) Coordinate data collection, data validation, and execute crop production GHG footprint calculation (through 3rd party API) to facilitate company carbon commitment and reporting.
• 3) Interpret & visualize crop production GHG footprint, and deliver insight to global stakeholders to drive adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices.
• 4) Help to build internal infrastructural tools/pipelines to automate quantification of crop production GHG footprint.
• 5) Write beautiful, robust, well-documented code.
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• Who will this person work with on a daily basis?
• Me and another Data Scientist from the team.
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• Tell me about the team dynamic/culture.
• We are a diverse and highly dynamic group with a team of exceptional data scientists with diverse backgrounds– Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Agronomy, and more–to deliver next-generation scientific solution for sustainable agriculture.
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• What are the ‘must haves’ to be successful in this role?
• 1) MS OR BS (+2 years of experience) in Computer Science, Statistics, or related fields.
• 2) Fluency in Python (required) and SQL (preferred).
• 3) Knowledge of API architecture (REST). On-hand experience of API service (request) and data crawling (butterfly).
• 4) Proven experience with python visualization libraries (Matplotlib, seaborn, plotly, etc..).
• 5) Detail-oriented, and good sense of data quality.
• 6) Strong communication skills and the ability to work with diverse cross-functional teams.
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• What is the long term plan for the role?
• Currently no long-term plan for the role. But it could potentially be changed based on the business needs on GHG quantification.
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• What will make this opportunity stand out for potential candidates?
• The team is delivering scientific solutions for sustainable agriculture, which is a recently hot topic across different industries. And the candidates will work with a group of Data Scientists, and use a set of Data Science tools to perform the daily work, which would foster the candidate’s career growth and development in Data Science as well as Agriculture.
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• Is this more maintenance or new development work?
• The majority of the work is maintenance, and a small fraction of the new development. And this can be varied by the candidate’s interest and skill set.
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• What kind of soft skills are you looking for?
• Communication. This role will work with colleagues across the organizations in different countries. The candidate should be willing to do communications with people to clear up questions and get answers.
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• Are you open to candidates relocating (on their own) or do you prefer local candidates?
• I am open to candidates relocating on their own. Since this is a remote position, we are good with candidates from any states without relocating.
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• What is the minimum number of years of experience required for this position?
• MS or BS with 2+ years of experience.
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• What is the minimum level of education needed for this position?
• MS or BS with 2+ years of experience.
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• Any certifications required for this role?
• No.
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• Is there a possibility for an extension of this assignment?
• Could be, which also depends on how the project is going and the budget from the organization.
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• Will this position convert to a FTE Role?
• Currently no plan for FTE conversion, however, if the contractor is performing very good, there is a potential to convert to FTE.
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• What is the interview process, will you schedule a phone screen, video conference or in person interviews?
• We will do virtual interviews via Teams, the interview will include both technical and behavioral screenings.
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Will any tasks within this assignment support Pharma or Consumer Health efforts?
No
Will the work location for this assignment be remote after activation of hybrid model (post COVID)?
Yes
Will the work location for this assignment be remote?
Yes
Subcontractor Submittals Allowed?
No
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09/23/2022 12:15 PM * Replaces Req 29874 –
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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