Senior Data Scientist

At Adtalem Global Education, we seek to empower students and members to achieve their goals, find success and make inspiring contributions to our global community. Adtalem is a leading healthcare educator that partners with organizations to proactively address future workforce needs and empowers career development with access to world-class academic curriculums, certifications and training programs across the medical and healthcare industries.

Adtalem institutions and companies include: American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, and Walden University. (NYSE: ATGE; member S&P MidCap 400 Index) For more information, please visit adtalem.com.

The Senior Data Science Analyst is a part of the Analytics Center of Excellence and plays a key role in building and maintaining machine learning models, The Senior Data Science Analyst works closely with senior leadership to understand their needs and assess how they can be met through specific analyses.  This role will be intricately involved in running machine learning experiments in a methodical manner and evaluating alternate models in areas that help maximize the success of students enrolled into many programs offered under various Adtalem brands.

Responsibilities

• Selects and manages features, builds and optimizes classifiers using machine learning techniques.

• Performs data mining using state-of-the-art methods.

• Leverages third party sources of information to enhance data models.

• Creates and manages data collection procedures to ensure information is relevant for building analytic systems.

• Ensures the integrity of data used for analysis and models.

• Identifies analytic needs and requirements of the institutions by working closely with senior management; projects may include: root cause/regression analyses; benchmarking and best practice identification; financial and business impact of key initiatives and new ideas and external market analyses.

• Works within cross-functional and cross-institution project teams to solve business problems.

• Translates analytic findings into simple, actionable, and practical solutions and recommendations.

• Synthesizes recommendations into management-ready presentations with recommended actions.

• Completes other duties as assigned.

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Complies with all policies and standards

• MBA  Preferred or advanced degree (in an area such as Operations, Econometrics, or Statistics) Preferred
• Management consulting/professional service experience Preferred and 5 of advanced analytics/machine learning work experience. 
• Experience with data visualization tools, such as D3.js, GGplot, etc. 
• Strong data-orientation with the ability to process ambiguous and/or seemingly conflicting data or information to create “one version of the truth.”
• Ability to work in a dynamic and cross-functional environment, where multiple conflicting objectives need to be prioritized and achieved.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills including influencing and consensus building.
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
• Excellence in one of the data science toolkits, such as Python, SPSS, and R.
• Must have proficiency in using query languages such as SQL.
• Must have experience with databases, such as SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake.
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Good scripting and programming skills.

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $82,364.67 and $149,076.17. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Adtalem offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Adtalem’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
• For more information related to our benefits please visit: https://careers.adtalem.com/benefits

You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. At Adtalem, we welcome everyone and have a strong commitment towards diversity and inclusion. We encourage our Colleagues to be their true authentic selves and support laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. We also maintain a drug-free workplace.