Description

Location: O’Fallon, IL / St. Louis, MO

Plateau Grp is a growing company that values your skills, training and ideas. At Plateau, you are our greatest asset. We provide a path to keep growing your career. We strive to foster an environment that's welcoming, diverse, respectful and inclusive.

Data scientist is responsible for various functions, including utilizing modern data science techniques to examine, explain, and interpret data sets, and to recognize and forecast trends, as well as conduct analytics concerning activities that are important to the organization. Conduct exploratory data analysis, mine data (e.g., clustering), and prepare modeling datasets from multiple data sources. Build, validate, and implement predictive models using machine learning algorithms (e.g., Random Forests, GBM, neural networks, SVM, Na ve Bayes Classifier), as well as traditional statistical modeling techniques (e.g., time series forecasting, linear and logistic regression).

Responsibilities

• Identifies unique opportunities to collect new data.

• Designs new processes and builds large, complex data sets.

• Strategizes new uses for data and its interaction with data design.

• Locates new data sources, analyzes statistics and implements quality procedures.

• Performs data studies of new and diverse data sources.

• Finds new uses for existing data sources.

• Conducts statistical modeling and experiment design.

• Discovers “stories” told by the data and presents them to other scientists and business managers.

• Tests and validates predictive models.

• Builds web prototypes and performs data visualization.

• Conducts scalable data research on and off the cloud.

• Implements automated processes for efficiently producing scale models.

• Designs, modifies and builds new data processes.

• Generates algorithms and creates computer models.

• Collaborates with database engineers and other scientists.

• Implements new or enhanced software designed to access and handle data more efficiently.

• Trains the data management team on new or updated procedures.