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Primary responsibilities include providing analytic consulting, training, development, and delivery of predictive analytic solutions to First Data clients across the full account life cycle. The successful candidate will be responsible for performing as the technical specialist for analytic development and operational scoring aspects in deploying First Data analytics technology. He/she will work closely with First Data clients and the First Data Client Services project team to understand the analytics requirements and goals, acquire appropriate historical data, and assist in developing analytics for use in operational scoring applications.

The successful candidate must be comfortable analyzing and understanding large amounts of historical data to determine suitability for modeling or clustering, data cleansing, experimenting with different types of algorithms and modeling techniques, analyzing model performance, preparing model reports for communication with internal and external clients, participating in presales activities, and providing post-implementation support.

Requirements

• BS in a science or engineering field.
• 3+ years industry experience in employing mathematical/statistical modeling, pattern recognition, or data mining/data analysis on real world problems
• Extensive experience SQL, Database technology
• Experience model development tools is a plus
• Strong problem solving and analytical ability
• Excellent communication skills and comfortable presenting at all levels within an organization
• Team orientated and at the same time has the ability to work independently with minimum direction
• Able to manage multiple tasks, resources and projects concurrently, all with aggressive time lines
• Ability and willingness to learn new fields of mathematics, statistics, and computer science/software development

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