Sr/Tableau Data Scientist - 90355181 - Washington

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This position is a tiered position. Incumbents will have a position level assigned based on their skills and experience, and in alignment with position development plans. Position placement is at Amtrak’s sole and absolute discretion.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES:
The Sr/Lead Data Scientist - Tableau will support the Mechanical department in synthesizing various mechanical regions, supporting mechanical data enrichment and creating working models helpful for regional and facility segmentation. This position will require the candidate to apply theoretical concepts to data sources and create meaningful insights that can be shared with senior leadership. Specifically, the candidate would provide analysis into various Mechanical department processes and reporting to create regional and facility specific KPI and metrics to that highlight performance and productivity of mechanical services. This role requires experience in SQL and Exploratory Data Analysis coupled with familiarity doing customer segmentation in some scientific programming language.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Curate datasets from disparate sources – clean, normalize, scale, and impute while deriving features for modelling.
• Support advanced level analytical and modelling to support customer analytics team.
• Support IT and ancillary business partners with onboarding new data sources, profiling, scoring, and tracking data quality.
• Produce programmatic visualizations to communicate findings with executive level leadership.
• Leverage Machine Learning and NLP techniques to data mine customer feedback and provide proactive reporting to senior leadership

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related field, or the equilvant years of experience in lieu of a degree
• 3 (Three) years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated technical competency and coursework in relation to software development, versioning systems, ML/AI – specifically clustering and regression.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to business leadership.
• Experience with cleaning, conforming and summarizing data – demonstrated experience working with various imputation methods and feature engineering approaches
• Python/R and SQL programming, familiarity with customer related data domains helpful
• Experience in the design, testing and reporting of various customer segmentation algorithms (K-Means++ and Hierarchical)
• Documentation and structured programming to support sustainable development practices
• Debugging and code-reading skills 
• Experience with Customer Data Platforms, AWS S3, Redshift and Adobe Analytics
• Provable experience with SQL in the context of large data sources
• Familiarity with building reusable code including packages, libraries and stored procedures
• Some experience with unstructured data sources
• Experience with visualization tools such as Business Objects, Tableau, ggplot or similar
• Understanding of data warehousing concepts including data integration, normalized data
• Demonstrated skill in project planning and collaborating with groups
• Ability to describe challenges and solutions in both technical and business terms
• Ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationships at all organizational levels

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Six (6) + years of relevant experience preferred
• Familiarity with various machine learning and modelling platforms and libraries including Keras, Tidy models and k-prototype clustering.
• Experience with enterprise SDLC best practices including documentation, versioning, and testing frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience working and presenting to senior and C-level management.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Constantly or frequently uses a computer keyboard, monitor, and mouse to perform a variety of tasks.
• Constantly or frequently sits, stands, or walks; may lift, carry, push, or pull objects of various weight; may reach, kneel, crouch, bend, or twist in order to in order to perform administrative tasks (e.g., filing, retrieving materials from desks and bookcases, moving around an office setting).   
• May occasionally be in the field and subject to walking on uneven surfaces, climbing over obstacles, or working in tunnels and restricted spaces during the course of an investigation.   
• Frequently handles multiple projects simultaneously
• Able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment requiring quick thinking, tight time constraints, changing priorities and ability to solve problems

Mental Demands:

• Constantly communicates, comprehends, and responds to verbal statements and instructions both orally and in writing.
• Constantly acquires new knowledge, skills, and tasks, both complex and simple, in order to maintain effectiveness in position.
• Frequently resolves problems with conflicting priorities in cognitively demanding situations. 
• Frequently reads and analyzes hard copy and or computer screen material and writes reports as appropriate. 
• Conducts in person and/or telephone dialogues as appropriate in order to manage and conduct the flow of work

Working Conditions:

• Frequently works long hours and is required to be on-call and available on an emergency basis.
• Constantly works in a fast-paced, time sensitive environment with frequently changing priorities.
• Frequently works in crisis situations requiring fast, long-reaching decisions based on incomplete information/data.
• Frequently handles multiple projects simultaneously.  
• Frequently or occasionally travels throughout and outside the region as required (e.g., via airplane, train, automobile) – 20%

COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills

The salary/hourly range is $96,830 - $125,490 for the Sr Data Scientist and $113,410 - $146,980 for the Lead Data Scientist. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, internal equity, 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:157866
Posting Location(s):District of Columbia; Virginia
Job Family/Function:Mechanical 
Relocation Offered:No 
Travel Requirements:Up to 25% 

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All positions require pre-employment background check verification, a pre-employment drug screen and proof of full vaccination against COVID -19. Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing. Marijuana, notwithstanding any statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use.  Candidates who engage in the usage of marijuana will not be qualified for hire.   Successful applicants for employment with Amtrak must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the date of hire as a condition of employment, subject to requests for accommodation.  Fully vaccinated means 14 days have elapsed since receiving the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or 14 days since receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

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 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 EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, 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.

POSTING NOTES: Mechanical || Engineering & Mechanical