Senior Data Scientist - fully onsite Dallas, TX - predictive analytics - PhD required

Welltower Careers • Dallas, TX

9h • Onsite

About The Position

Welltower’s Senior Data Scientist is someone who makes value out of data. This resource will work with the current data science team and integrate information from various sources and analyzes it for better understanding about how the business performance can be enhanced, and to analyze output from AI tools that automate certain processes within the company. The Senior Data Scientist will report to the Lead Data Scientist and help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions. The primary focus of this role will be in applying data engineering and predictive analytics techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our business model.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the data and analytics landscape and with at least 3 years of work experience
• Strong technical skills to include a deep understanding of (but not limited to): Reporting, Programming, Predictive Modeling, and Solution Architect.
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as Neural Networks, etc.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, MatLab, Python etc. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
• Experience with data mining and data visualization tools, such as Alteryx, Tableau etc.
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, correlation, statistical testing, regression, etc
• Good communication skills and data oriented personality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with business and technology partners.
• Familiarity with Real Estate and Healthcare industries systems and specialist in business consolidation in diverse source systems.
• Knowledge of enterprise profitability and business planning and forecasting.
• PhD in Mathematics or Statistics or Economics with a focus on Predictive Analytics solution.
• Background in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Statistics or related field is required.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Business Insights team with Welltower’s data and analytics strategy and predictive analytics application across Welltower.
• Work on creating predictive models and solutions to consume data for the purpose of analytics.
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Extending company’s data with third party sources of information as and when needed
• Analyzing the output of the predictive analytics model to make meaningful information valuable to Welltower investment process
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner

Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary + Annual Bonus
• Generous Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Program – purchase shares at a 15% discount
• Employer-matching 401(k) Program + Profit Sharing Program
• Student Debt Program – we’ll contribute up to $10,000 towards your student loans!
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Comprehensive and progressive Medical/Dental/Vision options
• Professional Growth

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees