Data Science Associate
Company | Wellmark |
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Location | Des Moines, IA, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, finance, accounting, computer science, engineering, or economics
- 4 years of direct and applicable work experience with specific experience in data or statistical analysis, including data collection, joins, analysis, statistics and/or data presentation
- Specific exposure with hands-on data analysis of databases and files using SQL dialects and statistical programming languages
- Strong formulas and data visualizations knowledge
- Exposure to business intelligence or analysis platforms
- Naturally curious and ability to drive business decisions and solutions
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to present complex information
- Proactive, self-starter and can manage priorities through effective time management skills
Responsibilities
- Extracting, integrating analyzing, and interpreting data from internal and external data sources
- Developing analytical tools that deliver insight to inform recommendations to achieve business goals
- Collaborating with team and key business stakeholders to ensure critical business objectives are met by following the analytics lifecycle within assigned domains
- Working cross-functionally with business stakeholders to identify risk and provide solutions that drive data-enabled decisions
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree
- Experience working with unstructured data sets
- Experience building data models and data pipelines with familiarity of data warehousing concepts
- Strong consultation and presentation skills
- Experience developing project roadmaps and timelines
- Experience working with AWS tools such as S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Sagemaker, etc.
- Experience developing, testing, and implementing statistical models within a business context