Job Location: Chicago, IL
Description
There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run “Business Resource Group” communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?
We believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. United’s Digital Technology team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.
Provides mathematical modeling and analysis services to support critical financial, operational, and/or strategic planning decisions and engages in supporting project teams in value-added activities that generate practical solutions to complex business problems, explores new business alternatives, and drives improvement in business decisions.
- Develops the approach and methods to define and solve management problems through quantitative analysis and analytical models using statistics, machine learning, forecasting techniques, and structured programming languages
- Identifies, researches, or solves large complex problems using big data and statistics, forecasting and machine learning principles
- Demonstrates understanding of the business process to identify and implement statistics, forecasting and machine learning solutions that will result in significant bottom-line contributions
- Builds and develops statistics, forecasting and machine learning model applications, and provides client support using operations research knowledge
- Participates in model design, prototype, and model development for several efforts that occur simultaneously, and collaborate with product delivery groups
- Raises concerns when scope of analysis may not align with time available and can choose an appropriate scope of analysis to conduct balancing return on investment to time available
- Designs analytic plan/develop hypotheses to test; understands limitations of analysis (what it can and cannot be used for)
- Anticipates working team questions to data and approach
- Identifies solution quality risks and on-time risks
Qualifications
- PhD or ABD in Statistics or other related quantitative field involving quantitative analysis and application of advanced statistical methods
- Coursework or work experience with statistics and/or forecasting techniques
- Coursework or work experience in model prototyping through use of statistical package(s) including SAS or SPSS, Minitab and/or BI tools
- Coursework or work experience with C, C++, Java, R, Python, or other structured programming language
What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
- Minor in computer science and/or formal advanced computer science coursework preferred
- 2+ years of professional experience in an analytical field
- 1+ years of airline business experience
- 1+ years designing and programming/coding data structures for large-scale computer models
- Experience with Julia programming language
United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.
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