Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist needed by TaxAct, Inc. in Coppell, TX (and various unanticipated locations throughout U.S.; may work from home) to deliver models to optimize marketing spend, create personalized engagements, and drive customer retention across both our tax preparation and wealth management businesses.

Responsibilities:

1. Provide data, perform data analysis and statistical modeling, and utilize machine learning.
2. Deliver statistical models to drive organizational insights and key business actions.
3. Partner closely with the business, including marketing and product teams, to understand and optimize the customer journey.
4. Provide insight into market segmentations, customer journeys, and the customer experience with high accuracy using analysis, predictive modeling, and machine learning.
5. Assemble and clean data for modeling purposes.
6. Write and interpret complex SQL queries.
7. Complete model selection, build, and testing.
8. Engage with the broader data science organization to support, refine, and test large-scale data science projects.
9. Deploy visualization techniques to deliver insights to end-users.
10. Summarize and report key analytical findings and recommendations in both oral and written forms to various technical and non-technical teams.
11. Design, code, implement, and maintain analytical and machine learning applications utilizing data to provide valuable insights.
12. Analyze large amounts of information to find patterns and solutions.
13. Carry out preprocessing of structured and unstructured data.
14. Process, cleanse, and validate the integrity of data to be used for analysis.
15. Develop prediction systems and machine learning algorithms.
16. Present solutions and strategies to tackle business challenges.
17. Utilize statistical modeling techniques including regression, classification, hypothesis testing, and unsupervised learning.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires a Masters degree, or foreign equivalent degree, in Statistics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or Engineering Management and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or one (1) year of experience in a related occupation providing necessary documentation and upgrading to newer technologies based on project needs; and working on projects using Python, Tableau, R, SVN, Git, Oracle, and MS SQL Server.

Application Process:

Apply at ( by selecting Search for Openings entering the requisition number, R0003230, selecting Search, opening the requisition, and clicking Apply, or email resume to Talent Acquisition at and reference requisition Number: R0003230.