IBM is a leading company in consulting and technology, seeking an Associate Data Scientist to join their world-class Associates Program for university hires. In this role, you will work on solving business problems using advanced data analysis and machine learning techniques while collaborating with diverse teams to deliver insights and recommendations to clients.
Implementing and validating predictive and prescriptive models, creating and maintaining statistical models with a focus on big data and incorporating machine learning techniques in your projects
Writing programs to cleanse and integrate data in an efficient and reusable manner
Working in an Agile, collaborative environment, partnering with other data scientists, engineers, consultants, and database administrators of all backgrounds and disciplines to bring analytical rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of predicting behaviors
Communicating with internal and external clients to understand and define business needs and appropriate modeling techniques to provide analytical solutions
Evaluating modeling results and communicating the results to technical and non-technical audiences
Qualification
Required
Strong fundamentals in Mathematics and Computer Science (algorithms)
You're proficient in least one of the statistical programming languages, such as R, Python, Scala, SAS, SPSS, or Matlab
You have a basic understanding of or experience with predictive/prescriptive modeling skills
You have strong technical and analytical abilities, a knack for driving impact and growth, and some experience with programming/scripting in a language such as Java or Python
You're great at solving problems by looking at things differently, debugging, troubleshooting, and designing and implementing solutions to complex technical issues
Willingness to travel up to 100%
Preferred
You thrive on teamwork and have excellent verbal and written communication skills
You have a basic understanding of Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.)
Familiarity with constructing usable data sets from multiple structured and unstructured data sources
Benefits
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