Vanguard is looking for a data scientist to lead analytics projects, support data-driven business decision making, and mentor junior data scientists.
Requirements
- Experience with data wrangling required - Programming skills to access, transform and prepare large scale data for statistical modeling.
- Experience utilizing statistical and machine learning methods required.
Responsibilities
- Leads the execution of large scale, more complex analytics projects.
- Applies significant quality control and risk assessment of the model, methodologies, outputs, and processes for major data science projects.
- Leads and executes deep dive diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to support data-driven business decision making.
- Creates alternative model approaches to assess complex model design and advance future capabilities.
- Identifies and diagnoses data inconsistencies and errors, documents data assumptions, and forages to fill data gaps.
- Guides test design, research design, and model validation.
- Prepares and delivers insight presentations and action recommendations.
Other
- Mentors and develops junior data scientists and analysts.
- Engages with senior leadership to understand and probe business processes in order to develop hypotheses.
- Brings structure to requests and translates requirements into an analytic approach.
- Serves as the analytics expert on cross functional teams for large strategic initiatives and contributes to the growth of the Vanguard analytic community.
- Communicates complex analytical findings and implications to business leaders.
- Minimum of eight years related work experience in analytical roles.
- Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.
