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Data Scientist

Overview

Global video game publisher/developer headquartered in Rockville, MD, seeks a Data Scientist specializing in statistics/econometrics. This position works within the Enterprise BI Team supporting the publisher-level finance and sales teams, designing, deploying, and delivering model output to stakeholders. The Data Scientist will be focusing on supporting analytic needs from all facets of the business, including e-commerce, finance, and game event data.

The incumbent will have at least one or more years of relevant experience partnering with both technical and business teams to facilitate analytics. The Data Scientist will be responsible for validating incoming data, making sure reports align with business requirements, and confirming that internal and external developed systems properly meet the need of populating said data models.

Responsibilities

• Work within the Enterprise BI team, supporting reporting & analytics from multiple data sources
• Work directly with business stakeholders, ensuring that business requirements are captured and met
• Directly work with the ETL Engineers, Data Engineers, and Modelers to communicate and define necessary extracts and calculations
• Create documentation of work from end to end (ingest to report/analysis)
• Straddle differing subject areas such as in-game and business data sources
• Use statistical methods to analyze data for multiple business stake holders
• Data mining using state of the arts methods

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree with at least 1-2 years of work experience
• A good understanding of data modeling concepts and visualization methods
• Intermediate to Advanced SQL skills
• Experience with data manipulation
• Experience maintaining and troubleshooting enterprise reports and analytics
• Comfortable exploring and analyzing unfamiliar datasets, both structured and unstructured
• Excellent communicator and comfortable interfacing directly with differing customers across the organization in addition to the BI team
• Experience working within the Video Games industry preferred, though candidates from outside of the industry are also welcomed
• Programming experience (e.g. Scala, Python, R)

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with Tableau (or similar visualization software)
• A personal interest in video gaming (esp. MMORPG)
• Understanding of the Free-to-Play/Micro-transaction Business Model for different game types
• Self-driven attitude

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