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Job Field: Accounting / Finance Jobs
Location: REDMOND, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time

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               <td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">Job Category:Technical Service and IT<BR>Location:Redmond, WA, US<BR>Job ID:805465-90003<BR>Division:IT<BR><BR><BR>Senior Data Scientist:<BR>The Data & Decision sciences Team within technology Office in MSIT, helps drive actionable business intelligence through advanced statistical modeling and business analytics, throughout Microsoft. The team focuses on enterprise level engagement, where advanced data mining and modeling skills are needed to find business insights. We have a strong team of experienced statistician with an average experience of 15+ years in various industries. Currently we are expanding our work in areas of simulation, system modeling and text mining, to support our internal clients. Our goal is to support business performance enabled through data analysis, statistical modeling - resulting into business impact. Candidate will be expected to work with internal clients on analytic projects and identify potential improvement opportunities. The candidate must possess a passion for advanced analytics and skills in areas of data mining.<BR><BR>Core Job Responsibilities:<BR><BR>The right candidate will have a combination of advanced statistical analysis skills and an interest in driving business impact through actionable analytic insight. He/she should be able to independently run analytic projects and help our internal clients use the findings to drive their business.<BR><BR>Conduct and manage analysis and modeling - in the areas of text mining, sentiment analysis, forecasting and simulation. Perform exploratory data analysis; build behavioral models for uses and partners. Utilize data mining technologies and use various data sources, some of which may include Sales and other financial data, 3rd party demographic, Partner data, to gain insight into KPIs. Provide complete solutions to business problems using data analysis, data mining techniques, and statistics. Work on projects may include case studies, methodology research, tool evaluations, model development/refinement and deployment. Serve as subject matter expert on analytics for Microsoft IT.<BR><BR>- Must have experience across multiple industries, solving business problems using modeling, text/data mining on large scale real-world business data sets<BR>Web analytics experience - highly desirable<BR>- Experience with various data analysis tools, data mining tools, and statistical packages<BR>- Familiarity with applying data mining techniques (i.e. classification, & clustering, sentiment analysis through text mining, time series forecasting, Simulation and system modeling), statistics and information retrieval methods to real-world data<BR>Familiarity of system modeling and simulation is desirable but not necessary<BR>- Ability to work independently or to manage a virtual team that will research innovative solutions to challenging business problems<BR>- Ability to collaborate with partners and drive analytic projects end to end,<BR>- Superior communication skills, both verbal and written<BR>- Attention to detail and data accuracy<BR>- Preferred fluen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                </font></td>
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