Data Scientist
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Job Description
In this role of Data Scientist you will be responsible for becoming an expert on the Sovrn exchange. You will use your experience and expertise to develop algorithms, auction simulations, and utilize machine learning and computer science topics that will increase overall success and performance of our ad exchange. In addition, you will support the data science team through software design principles and computer science concepts.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and enhance programmatic solutions for our business
- Develop expertise in industry yield techniques to apply learnings to the Sovrn exchange
- Respond to high priority requests from senior business leaders
- Assist in design of our cloud infrastructure
- Partner with engineering to understand the exchange code base
- Develop and own the relationship between data science and the exchange engineering teams
- Interface with business, product and engineering to gather requirements
- Develop expertise in each data resource, methods to extract and process data (sql, hive, spark, etc...)
- Recognize and adopt best practices in programming and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
- Analyze and solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context
- Interface with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- Education or experience in a quantitative field preferred
- Experience with Java
- Experience with Python
- Knowledge of C/C++ or other compiled languages a plus
- Comfort with code base and systems design
- Strong communication skills and ability to mentor
- Comfortable in fast-paced, start-up environments
Position Reports to: Sr. Director, Data Science
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