data scientist vsp vision care date aug 24 2019 req id 33915 division information technology location rancho cordova ca us 95670 vsp global is comprised of five complementary businesses that combine highquality eye care insurance highfashion eyewear customized lenses ophthalmic technology and retail solutions with employees in over 23 countries no matter the role were all focused on a singular mission to help people see learn more by visiting general summary under general supervision models complex business problems and discovering business insights through the use of statistical algorithmic mining and visualization techniques the data scientist conducts experiments and methodologies to generate and collect data for business use essential functions mines available data to identify trends and patterns and generates insights for lobs and senior leadership partners with lobs to identify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments performs complex statistical analysis on experimental or business data to validate and quantify trends or patterns constructs predictive models algorithms and probability engines to support data analysis or product functions verifies model and algorithm effectiveness based on realworld results identifies meaningful insights from large data and metadata sources interprets and communicates insights and findings from analysis and experiments to product service and business managers develops and codes software programs algorithms and automated processes to cleanse integrate and evaluate large datasets from multiple disparate sources research and apply knowledge of existing and emerging data science principles theories and techniques to inform business decisions uses advanced mathematical and statistical concepts and theories to analyze and collect data and construct solutions to business problems participates in research and implementing cuttingedge techniques and tools in machine learningdeep learningartificial intelligence to make data analysis more efficient and to create new datadriven capabilities and insights supports user experience specialists and information architects to enhance information visualization through development of dashboards and user interface best practices to analytics and product teams and provides consultations for their databased experimentations assists in communicating enterprise data governance principles throughout vsp job specifications typically has the following skills or abilities bachelors degree in computer science data science statistics economics or related functional area or equivalent experience eight years of demonstrated data analytics andor data science experience including experience with big data analysis tools and techniques preferably in successfully executing data science projects in one or more of the following domainsbusiness functions risk modeling customer behavior prediction customer journey analytics marketing analytics target marketing churn management ecommerce platforms financial risk analytics logisticssupply chain with a masters degree or higher six or more years of relevant experience required experience building and deploying predictive models web scrapping and scalable data pipelines experience using statistical modeling and machine learning to solve complex business problems experience in data discoveryanalysis platforms such as spss modeler knime or similar coding knowledge and experience in languages such as r pythonjupyter sas java scala c etc experience with database programing languages such as sql plsql and others for relational databases and preferably experience in nonrelational databases such as nosql hadoop mongodb