AlixPartners is looking for a data professional to help financially secure, under-performing, and distressed companies across a variety of urgent, high-impact situations by creating ETL workflows, scripts, statistical models, and visualizations.
Requirements
- Experience with common data science toolkits, such as Python, PySpark, R. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
- Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
- Collect data from a wide variety of corporate databases, including various SQL databases -Microsoft, Redshift, Teradata, Oracle, Netezza, etc.-, Access, Excel, plain or formatted text files, OLAP cubes –Microsoft, Oracle-, and no-sql databases
- Parse data out of poorly structured XML and invalid HTML documents
- Use regular expressions to extract information from un-structured text documents
- Deal with missing data through multiple-imputation or the use of advanced models
- Demonstrate advanced SQL skills, such as CTEs and window functions, to work with extensive amounts of data at various aggregation levels
Responsibilities
- Create ETL workflows, scripts, statistical models, and visualizations
- Taking responsibility for the design, build, test, execution, and support of the data migration, cleansing, wrangling, etc.
- Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
- Execute machine learning projects using state-of-the-art methods
- Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
- Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
- Build effective, reliable, and robust ETL processes that govern the data ingestion flow
Other
- Ability to synthesize the requests received from team members at client sites
- Desire to actively engage in geographically dispersed teams
- Capability to be a creative, innovative problem solver - but using simple ideas
- Motivated to discover and learn new analytical techniques and software tools to improve the quality of our work
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
