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Job Summary:

The Senior Consultant I is responsible for driving multiple tracks of work to deliver Big Data solutions enabling advanced data science and analytics. The individual works with the team on new Big Data systems for analyzing data; the coding and development of advanced analytics solutions to make/optimize business decisions and processes; integrating new tools to improve descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics; and discovery of new technical challenges that can be solved with existing and emerging Big Data hardware and software solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Executes complex functional work tracks for the team
• Partners closely with team members on Big Data solutions for our data science community and analytic users
• Leverages and uses Big Data best practices/lessons learned to develop technical solutions used for descriptive analytics, ETL, predictive modeling, and prescriptive 'real time decisions' analytics
• Participate in the development of complex technical solutions using Big Data techniques in data and analytics processes
• Participates in the development of complex prototypes and department applications that integrate big data and advanced analytics to make business decisions
• Uses new areas of Big Data technologies, (ingestion, processing, and distribution) and research delivery methods that can solve business problems
•  Manages various Big Data analytic tool development projects with mid-size teams
• Executes on Big Data requests to improve the accuracy, quality, completeness, speed of data, and decisions made from Big Data analysis
• Uses, learns, teaches, and supports a wide variety of Big Data and Data Science tools to achieve results (i.e., R, ETL Tools, Hadoop, and others)
• Uses, learns, teaches, and supports a wide variety of programming languages on Big Data and Data Science work (i.e. Java, C#, Python, and Perl)

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• 3 or more years of related experience

Functional Skills:

• Experience in using software development to drive data science and analytic efforts
• Experience with database and ETL concepts
• Experience with various data types (e.g. Object storage, Relational, Unstructured, Hierarchical Data)
• Experience in developing, managing, and manipulating complex datasets
• Proven ability to code and develop prototypes in languages such as S3, Java, Scala, SQL, Python, and Perl

Notes:

The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned. Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.

Compensation offered for this role is $92,000.00-$134,000.00 per year and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

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