Cox Communications is seeking a Senior Data Scientist- Application Developer for Network Analytics Reliability Enablement Team (NARE). This role will report to a Manager of Data Science and will be responsible for architecture and development of analytics applications for the Service Health platform. As a Data Science application developer, you act as a cross breed between a data scientist and an application developer; delivering scalable infrastructure which can both run new data science models and also facilitate the onboarding of additional models across the organization. This role will play a central part in the ongoing design and build of data models, core platform infrastructure, data integration layers, graph database algorithms, and AWS development.
Responsibilities:
- Analytics Application Architecture:
- Plan and document key logic paths, service architecture, and data stores for new use cases
- Review of existing services for maintainability, scalability, and opportunities for complexity reduction
- Design with a bias towards observability, reusability, testability, and scale
- Identify or design repeatable patterns for implementing analytics application use cases.
- Development : Develop analytics applications using industry best practices for design, development, and testing. Make recommendations where needed for tools, services, and ways of working.
- Work in the AWS eco system to architect scale-able and maintainable solutions.
- Implement quality unit testing strategies, end to end testing, and A/B testing approaches.
- Build advanced data models to interpret signal data and network infrastructure
- Solve complex problems using top notch software development skills
- Take part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.
- Performs trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary.
- Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field
- 4+ years of Python, Java, or object-oriented language experience.
- 2+ years of AWS experience in a software engineering or data science capacity.
- 2 years of experience with NoSQL solutions such as Document DB, Mongo, or Cassandra.
- Working experience with specific AWS Services like Lambda, Step function, CloudWatch, Event Bridge, EC2, EMR, SQS, RDS, IAM, or Kubernetes.
- Experience with application design and development.
- Good communication skills. The ability to comprehend and communicate advanced technical topics to non-technical business partners.
- Experience with DevOps practices (Git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure automation.
- At least 1 year experience deploying and maintaining data science models and automation in a production capacity
- Self-motivated with a proactive approach to work; able to independently identify, prioritize, and plan next steps while maintaining a strategic, big-picture perspective.
Preferred:
- Experience within the telecommunications industry, cable industry, or consulting.
- Experience in automated test design and implementation
- Experience in data store selection for large-scale applications (high data volume and/or high read/write)
USD 99,000.00 - 165,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $99,000.00 - $165,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
About Cox Communications
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