Senior Data Scientist

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Job Summary:

Verizon is a leading telecommunications company that empowers people through innovative technology. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will collaborate with various teams to develop an Artificial Intelligence roadmap, driving improvements in network efficiency and customer experience through data analytics and modeling.

Responsibilities:

• Data mining and extracting usable insights from valuable data sources and validating data quality

• Performing exploratory and targeted data analyses using descriptive statistics and other methods.

• Identifying OKRs and KPIs for use cases that allow for continuous test & measurement of the economic impact of models in production

• Partnering with the business to ensure our organization’s strategy is aligned and supportive of wider business unit strategic goals

• Collaborating closely across AI&D to build predictive and prescriptive models for specific problems within the network domain that will require integration with the business processes to drive value

• Presenting results and recommendations to senior management and business users

• Lead the strategic development and evolution of our network modeling roadmap

• Operate as an expert and thought leader both within Verizon and externally within industry

• Coach and mentor our high potential talent

• Developing the next generation of AI that protects the privacy of our customers and ensures that our modeling practices are ethical and bias free.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience

• Expertise in Python, Spark, and SQL to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets using AI/ML techniques is critical

• Two years of experience with developing and deploying machine learning models to production

• Prior experience in building scoring models, anomaly detection solutions is preferable

• Two years of experience in the network domain (or) have a learning mindset to go deeper into the network domain relevant to the problem

Preferred:

• Master’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, or another technical and/or financial discipline

• Experience with large data sets to find opportunities for product and process optimization and using models to test the effectiveness of different courses of action

• Knowledge of data warehouse and data lake technology (Teradata, Hadoop, No SQL, graph DB)

• Knowledge and experience applying AI/ML or analytical models (e.g.: Numpy, Scikit-Learn, Dataproc, Jupyter Notebook, Facebook Prophet, XGBoost, Regressions, Classification, etc.)

• Network expertise, with a solid understanding of 4G/5G Technologies, IP Networking, RF/SP engineering tools / principles

• Technical knowledge of improving system performance, capacity, reliability and scalability of the network

Company:

Verizon is a broadband and telecommunications company that provides information and entertainment services. Founded in 1983, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Verizon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.