Senior Data Scientist - ML, Python

Senior Data Scientist - ML, PythonLocation: San Antonio, TXExperience: 12+ YearsMust have strong expertise in data science, machine learning, and statistical modeling. Proficiency in tools and languages such as Python, SQL, pySpark, ML packages. Expertise in building XGBoost type classification models and ARIMA/SARIMA type forecasting models. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mathematics, Physics, Data Science, Statistics, AI/ML. Good experience in quantitative analytics or data science.Job Responsibilities:Responsible for coding and testing customized analytical models of medium to high degree of complexity.Must be able to implement best practices when writing and testing code.Familiarity with the life cycle of a data science project and extensive experience with Python and XGboost, Arima/Sarima is a must.Requires strong interpersonal and communication skills, operational Elasticsearch knowledge and ability to construct GUI interfaces.Gathers, interprets, and manipulates structured and unstructured data to enable analytical solutions for the business.Selects the appropriate modeling technique and/or technology with consideration to data limitations, application, and business needs.Proven experience in developing models using Regression, Decision trees, Bayesian networks, Random Forest, Logistic regression, Support vector machine, Gradient boosting algorithms, Clustering algorithms and Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms.Proven experience in building and implementing Timeseries and forecasting models.Experience in Deep Learning model development using TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch.Hands on experience in building ML workflows.Experience in Model implementation, Governance, and monitoring.Responsibilities include performing the code development of complex analytic algorithms and paradigms, perform a clear breakdown of the analytic functionality and separate it into working modules.Working experience in Python, R and SQL.Experience in Python data science packages such as numPy, SciPy and SciKit-learn.Nice to Have:Fluent with Natural Language Processing and text analytics libraries (NLTK, SpaCy)Experience with Data Science Platforms (Dataiku, H2o, Azure...)Experience with one of Subversion/SVN, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Mercurial, or other version control systemExperience with cloud platforms AWS, Azure, GCP a plusKnowledge in Big Data, Hadoop, HIVE/HQL, HDFS, Spark/PySpark, KafkaFamiliar working in an AGILE environment