Comcast: Sr. Analyst – Data Science
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Tags: Customer Behavior, Philadelphia-PA
Dive into large, noisy, and complex real-world behavioral data to produce innovative analysis and find hidden gems, work closely with others to generate seamless BI solutions.
Company: ComcastLocation: Philadelphia, PA
Web: www.comcast.com
Job ID: 50341
Business Unit: Business Analysis/Research/Strategy/Planning
Role Description
- Find hidden gems that improve our understanding of customer behavior and drive decisions that improve OCF.
- Dive into large, noisy, and complex real-world behavioral data to produce innovative analysis of historical patterns in customer behaviors and product performance.
- Work closely with other data scientists, business intelligence colleagues, data warehouse architects, and software developers to generate seamless business intelligence solutions for the business.
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of database structure, design, query languages (e.g. SQL), fundamentals of mathematics, large data sets distributed systems, and statistical concepts.
- Experience with large database mining tools and analytic packages (e.g., SAS, Hadoop, R, etc).
- Ability to understand, manage and navigate large data sets
- Good understanding of high-level product architecture and data flow patterns.
- Team player with a can-do attitude.
- Ability to work effectively across functions, disciplines, and levels.
Preferred Educational Level:
- BS or MS degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or other quantitative field.
- Advanced degree (PhD) in a quantitative field (i.e., Statistics, Engineering, Machine Learning, Physics, Econometrics, etc.) preferred.
Experience:
- 5-7+ years working experience with data analytics.
- Direct, personal experience working with massive amounts of data.
Job Summary:
- Responsible for defining business intelligence requirements for individual subject areas; develops conceptual data models, design, build, and test sets of reporting and analytic business intelligence programs.
- Works cross-functionally to collect data and makes actionable recommendations at all levels.
- Infers trends from a variety of data sources and confidently delivers their interpretation; makes recommendations to executives.
- Has in-depth experience, knowledge and skills in own discipline.
- Usually determines own work priorities.
- Acts as resource for colleagues with less experience.
Core Responsibilities:
- Performs all business intelligence analysis and data exploitation.
- Extracts signals and signatures from raw data, integrates that information with other data sources and compiles/disseminates formatted reports to customers.
- Recommends improvements to competitive business intelligence reports and interpretation of data by sales, business development, product, and executive committees.
- Plans and executes system testing. Requires knowledge of the customer's mission and technology used to accomplish a given task.
- Leads the analysis and reconciliation of data and reporting projects and initiatives delivery.
- Develops, maintains, and reports all relevant product, site, and customer metrics and applies findings to develop appropriate goals and projections.
- Trains others throughout the organization in using key analytical and forecasting tools and statistical analysis.
- Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
- Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
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