Data Scientist Office and Procurement Services

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Working with business partners, define business use cases for using statistical and advanced analytics to improve existing and create new efficient and effective O&PS business processes.

• Create detailed business requirements for functional (e.g., business processes, rules) and non-functional (e.g., data, security) capabilities.
• Work closely with management to prioritize business and information needs.
• Develop and implement data collection strategies involving different systems to optimize and maintain data quality:  collect, clean, transform, analyze data as needed.
• Utilize primary and/or secondary data sources; maintain databases and data systems.
• Profile data sources using SQL and other data discovery tools in support of data quality and business intelligence design efforts.
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends and/or patterns in complex data sets; prepare inventories of items which could be developed/trained using analytical tools like machine learning.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Basic data governance concepts and practices within the financial services industry.
• Understanding of ETL and data flow principles.
• Data models, database design development, data mining and segmentation techniques.
• Statistics, including hypothesis testing.
• Various machine learning and other data science techniques.
• Python programming.
• Data visualization using tools like Qlik Sense and/or Tableau.
• Financial Services or Wealth Management industries is preferred.

Skill in

• Retrieving, blending, and analyzing data from a variety of sources and structures using tools such as Alteryx.

• Using various scripting tools (e.g. Python, R, SQL, etc.).

• Building models that business units understand, use, and acknowledge as value-adding.
• Combining various sources of data to create meaningful information and dashboards.

• Report writing and data visualization tools (Qlik Sense, Tableau, PowerBI, etc.).

Ability to

• Focus on needs of internal and external clients; identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions; proactively suggest next steps to business units; and maintain productive client relationships.

• Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message; explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo.

• Use effective approaches for choosing courses of action, developing appropriate solutions; and recommending/taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and potential risks.

• Demonstrate satisfactory levels of technical and professional skills, knowledge in position-related areas; remain current with developments and trends in data science.

• Develop and build collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

• Deliver work-products on schedule.

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Workstyle

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. 
We expect our associates at all levels to:
•  Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
•  Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
•  Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
•  Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
•  Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates.  When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.