Comcast: Sr. Analyst – Data Science

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: Comcast
Location: 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.