Data Scientist (3-5 years experience)

DataLab USA™ is an analytics and technology driven database marketing consultancy. We combine sophisticated technology, cutting edge analytics and an intrinsic understanding of marketing to build large-scale addressable marketing programs for Fortune 500 companies. Our clients operate in multiple verticals: Financial Services, Insurance, Telcom, and Travel & Leisure.

We have placed in the INC 5000 list of fastest growing private companies for six times in the last ten years. At its heart, DataLab USA™ has the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up. We judge ourselves on our ability to innovate, drive efficiency and deliver excellence for our clients.

**No Sponsorship offered for this position**

**Candidate must be local to Germantown, MD**

Key Responsibilities:

Build, implement and maintain predictive models through their full lifecycle.

· Identify patterns & trends in data, and provides insights to enhance business decision making.

· Identify challenges and opportunities from client strategy discussions and taking ownership of solution.

· Set up and monitor monthly model recalibration process.

· Generate complex ad-hoc analyses combining disparate concepts or creating new approaches.

· Design and create new analytic procedures & automation.

· Review corporate model scoring QC.

· Review corporate data transformation QC.

Required Skills and Qualifications

· MS/PHD in a quantitative discipline or BS in a quantitative discipline with commensurate experience

· Regular SQL use for querying data

· Experience programming with at least one language

· Use of statistical software (e.g., R, Python)

· Experience with Tableau (or other data visualization platform)

· Experience with Excel

· Financial or insurance industry experience strongly preferred

· 3-5 years of Database Marketing and Data Mining experience