Lead Data Scientist - Work From Home - Lumen MTS

About Lumen
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With 450,000 route fiber miles serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure global platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about Lumen’s network, edge cloud, security and communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at news.lumen.com, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies.

The Role

We are looking for a data scientist to join our team as we design and launch a new network analytic platform that will be implanted with our learnings and experience managing one of the largest global networks. In this role, you will develop and program methods, automated processes, and systems to cleanse... integrate and analyze structured and unstructured, diverse “big data” sources to generate actionable insights and solutions using machine learning and advanced analytics. Interprets and communicates insights and findings from analyses and experiments to other analysts, data scientists, team members and business partners. We are looking for a data scientist to join our team as we design and launch a new network analytic platform that will be implanted with our learnings and experience managing one of the largest global networks. In this role, you will develop and program methods, automated processes, and systems to cleanse, integrate and analyze structured and unstructured, diverse “big data” sources to generate actionable insights and solutions using machine learning and advanced analytics. Interprets and communicates insights and findings from analyses and experiments to other analysts, data scientists, team members and business partners.

The Main Responsibilities

• Execute data discovery, exploratory data analysis, and iteratively develop predictive and prescriptive models to identify optimal solutions
• Assist with operationalizing the solutions and changing business processes to maximize the value of those solutions.
• Analyze data and build predictive and prescriptive models in the areas of capacity planning, anomaly detection, predictive asset failure/maintenance, workload optimization, customer segmentation and business performance.
• Mine information for previously unknown patterns and insights hidden in these assets and leverage them for competitive advantage.
• Find solutions that are on the cutting edge of technology and lies at the intersection of science, engineering and business acumen.
• Team player on an agile team and within a strongly focused DevOps culture.

What We Look For in a Candidate

• 3+ years of experience delivering Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics solutions
• Typically 8+ years IT experience
• Familiar with Hadoop, Hive, SQL and Spark technologies
• Ability to apply techniques such as classification, clustering, regression, deep learning, association, anomaly detection, time series forecasting, Hidden Markov models and Bayesian inference to solve pragmatic business problems
• Ability to design working models and implement them on Big Data systems using Map Reduce or Spark frameworks.
• Ability to work within an agile, iterative DevOps development process
• Experience with statistical programming environments like Python, R, SPSS or IBM Watson Studio
• Fluent in one or more object oriented-languages like C#, C++, Scala, Java, and scripting languages like Python or Ruby