Sr Data Scientist - 90388090 - Washington

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As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

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Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES:
The Senior Data Scientist facilitates the design and development of decision modeling processes and creates data algorithms to drive enhancement strategies for higher operational efficiency at all Service Delivery and Operations Department levels using exploratory, inferential, predictive, causal, and mechanistic analysis. The position works closely with business stakeholders to understand their goals and builds data and decision models to extract insight that help them achieve their goals.The Senior Data Scientist is responsible for building advanced analytics models to respond to the requests of business partners for generating insights, identifying improvement opportunities and prioritization, and discovering signals and patterns toward intelligent decision-making.The Senior Data Scientist works on major projects and will also engage with process and data experts throughout Amtrak including Information Technology, Subject Matter Experts, Continuous Improvement, Statisticians, and Data Analysts to ensure a unified approach to extract the data the business needs and help analyze the data and share insights with peers. 
 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Builds advanced analytics models for the generation of insights, and identification of opportunities to innovatively use available data to discover signals and patterns, and drive towards intelligent decision-making.
• Formulates guided, multifaceted analytics against large volumes of data.
• Prepares, cleans, normalizes, and validates data for utmost integrity before usage, and assists with ad-hoc data analysis requests, as needed.
• Interprets and analyzes data using exploratory mathematic and statistical techniques based on the scientific method.
• Analyzes various data points (unstructured and structured) and employs programming to clean, massage, and organize the data.
• Analyzes problems and determines root causes.
• Develops productive working relationships with internal and external parties. 
• Helps conduct expert data analytic strategies using data analytic tools to identify trends or to solve a variety of business problems. 
• Collaborates with other Data Analysts and Data Engineers to ensure a unified approach to extract the data that the business needs and helps analyze the data and share insights with peers.
• Adheres to quality standards and procedures.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree required OR equivalent combination of training, education, and relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Advanced analytical knowledge of data
• Statistical analysis
• Conducting big data analysis
• Data conditioning
• Programming advanced computing
• Developing machine learning algorithms (classification, regression, clustering, model validation, etc.)
• Developing software and data models
• Executing predictive analytics
• Proficient with one or more programming languages (Python, R, SQL, Alteryx, SAS, etc.) and hands-on working experience with database systems, business intelligence, and visual reporting tools (BOBJ, Tableau, Power BI, etc.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Work is performed 4 days in the office, with 1 day remote.  
• May require traveling up to 10% of the time. 
• Additional duties as required.

COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.

The salary/hourly range is $86,500 - $111,996. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. Depending on an employee’s assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee’s base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position and/or long-term incentive plan compensation. In addition to your salary, Amtrak offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts; wellness programs; flexible spending accounts; 401K retirement plan with employer match; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; back-up care; adoption assistance; surrogacy assistance; reimbursement of education expenses; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility; Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits; and rail pass privileges. Learn more about our benefits offerings here.

Requisition ID:164084
Posting Location(s):District of Columbia

Work Arrangement:06-Onsite Click here for more information about work arrangements at Amtrak. 
Job Family/Function:Information Technology 
Relocation Offered:No 
Travel Requirements:Up to 25% 

You power our progress through your performance.
 

We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions. 

Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen. 

Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.  

In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.

In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses. 

Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Amtrak is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/color, to include traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and hairstyles such as braids, locks and twists, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, such as lactation), national origin/ethnicity, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law..