As a Data Scientist II on the Outreach Analytics team, you'll lead complex analytics and modeling efforts that shape how thousands of students discover, choose, and succeed at WGU. You'll work on large, diverse data sets, apply machine learning and statistical techniques, and collaborate across teams to deliver insights that inform key decisions and improve student engagement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline
- 5 years of experience delivering data science solutions and analytical models
- Advanced experience building predictive models using machine learning methods.
- Advanced proficiency with SQL (writing queries and subqueries, modifying data (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE), creating views, and knowledge of the different join types, filtering, sorting, aggregation, window functions, common table expressions (CTE), and performance tuning)
- Experience using Python, R, or Natural Language Processing in an ML environment
- Experience with the selection and deployment of mathematical models, forecasting methods (e.g., time series, inferential, regression), descriptive statistics, and classification algorithms to make predictions and identify relationships based on limited data sets.
Benefits
- Bonus eligible
- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
- Health savings account and flexible spending account
- Basic and voluntary life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- Legal and identity theft coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Wellbeing program
- Discounted WGU tuition
- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave
