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Are you a knowledgeable consultant who enjoys travel and has experience working in Analytics? Then we want you to join the company #1 in analytics to assist our clients in implementing our solutions.

We have several openings for Analytic Science Consultants (req 2475) in San Rafael, CA due to high demand in this area!

Job Description
Working simultaneously on many projects, the Analytic Science Consultant, with minimal guidance from more senior staff members, gathers, examines, and analyzes data; writes technical specifications for manipulating data; produces reports, graphs, and summaries; and confers with customer liaison contacts. Responsible for:

• Uses appropriate tools and techniques to analyze a variety of data sources. Given the specific research topic, determines data and procedures best-suited to yield conclusive results; writes analyses documenting results;
• Analyzes and evaluates various complex and sophisticated performance definitions, sampling approaches, and segmentation alternatives for new developments;
• Anticipates and resolves operational problems and questions concerning analysis of data;
• Designs and implements new characteristic generation logic for predictive and action-effect modeling as well as performance evaluation; ensures design minimizes data reporting problems and inconsistencies; examines output for conformity with expectations; investigates unusual totals or patterns, draws conclusions and recommends corrective steps when appropriate;
• Designs and specifies stratified sampling schemes. Audits and evaluates data received from programmers to ensure consistency;
• Engineers score weights development; determines which analytic approaches are best-suited for a particular desired result; in conjunction with an Analytic Manager, evaluates output, formulates and tests hypotheses, weighs alternatives, and determines subsequent direction;
• Confers with customer representatives to obtain information and to resolve problems; presents or assists in presenting information at customer meetings held at project inception and at completion;
• Analyzes complex relationships between possible actions and potential customer reactions;
• Uses optimization tools to design decision strategies subject to business objectives and constraints;
• Provides training on standard tools and oversight for small project tasks to newer staff;
• Maintains quality control and ensures the maintenance of proper project documentation;
• Produces custom validations and writes analyses; packages general results as Case Studies and other marketing materials;
• Investigates newly developed technologies and methodologies from throughout the Fair Isaac analytic community for potential application to existing or planned products of the Unit
• Maintains a strong personal base of knowledge with respect to decision management technology, industry practices, trends and issues.

• MS in a technical field, or equivalent professional experience beyond the baccalaureate degree;
• Experience with predictive or descriptive modeling technology in a development or research role, including developing scoring algorithms;
• Course work in probability, statistics and quantitative methods required, including at least one semester of an applied statistics class;
• Knowledge of: scoring technology and methodologies; model development techniques and tools; advanced statistical methods and quantitative analysis; statistical tools and programs;
• Familiarity with Java and/or C++ or other similar object oriented programming language.
• Willingness to travel up to 100% of the time, both domestically and internationally.