Data Scientist

At GAF, we cover more than buildings. We cover each other. No matter what role, tenure, or track, under this roof you are empowered to be there for your teammates, your customers, and especially your community. Under this roof, we don’t back down from hard work– we support one another in pursuit of something bigger. We define the future while leading the present. And under this roof, we own our opportunities. Becoming the market leader only happens when everyone feels they have the opportunity, and the support, to thrive. We are GAF. And under this roof, we protect what matters most.

Job Summary
As part of a team, develop advanced analytical models to solve business problems leveraging the latest technologies in statistical and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to achieve organizational goals, increase data-driven insights, functional excellence, and digital expertise.
Essential Duties

• 60% Data Modeling
  • Transform business problems into data science cases to assess the scope of model’s value, speed, and cost in order to articulate model selection criteria.
  • Build Data Science models using cloud-computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google.
  • Build Data Science models using any relevant Data Science capability.
  • Be prepared to automate analytical workflows.
  • Manage and shape modeling design, development, and delivery process.
• 20% Data Collection
  • Collect, profile, collate, and map appropriate data for usage in new or existing solutions as well as for ongoing data analysis activities.
  • Develop, maintain, and review data processes and architecture for both on-premise and cloud-based data systems.
  • Develop and perform standard queries to ensure data quality, identify data inconsistencies, missing data and resolve as needed.
  • Perform data extraction, storage, manipulation, processing, and analysis.
  • Conduct programmatic web scraping to acquire external publicly available information.
• 20% Model Deployment and Evaluation
  • Assemble relevant User Interfaces (UIs) or Dashboards.
  • Assemble, deliver, and effectively communicate actionable insights for decision-makers.

Under This Roof We Require

• Bachelor’s Degree Data Science Academy in a related technical Data Science discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant experience

Under This Roof We Value

• Master’s degree Data Science Academy in a related technical Data Science discipline.
   

General Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Teamwork: Collaborates with other members of formal and informal groups in the pursuit of a common mission, vision, values and mutual goals.
• Change Advocate: Identifies and acts upon opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Communicates for Results: Expresses technical and business concepts, ideas, feelings, opinions, and conclusions orally and in writing.
• Conceptual Thinking: Applies appropriate concepts and theories in the development of principles, practices, techniques, tools and solutions.
• Information Seeking: Gathers and analyzes information or data on current and future trends of best practice.
• Innovation: Employs sound judgment in determining how innovations will be deployed to produce return on investment.
• Problem Solving: Anticipates, identifies and defines problems; seeks root causes.
• (Advanced) Data intuition.
• (Intermediate) General experience across relevant business operations to enhance understanding would be desirable.
• (Entry) Exposure to roofing or manufacturing industry would be helpful

Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• (Advanced) Python, R, or other relevant Data Science capabilities
• (Intermediate) SQL, NoSQL, & Hadoop
• (Entry) Any Data or visualization tool or software
• (Entry) Web Scraping: Scrapy, bsa, selenium, spiders, and API calls.

How We Protect What Matters Most:1. We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. 2. Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood. 3. Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions. 4. Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence. 5. Professional growth and development are very important to us! We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program. 6. We put diversity and inclusion into action with our Employee Resource Groups, which unite employees based on common perspectives, identities, demographic factors, or out of a desire to be an ally.

GAF complies with federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR Services at 833-HR-XPERT.

We believe our employees are our greatest resource. We offer competitive salary, benefits, 401k, and vacation packages for all full time permanent positions. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and GAF, Standard Logistics, SGI, and Siplast are proud to be affirmative action employers. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If applying for positions in the U.S., must be eligible to work in the U.S. without need for employer sponsored visa (work permit).