Data Science Job

A Data Science Job is a knowledge worker job that mostly requires the performance of data science tasks.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be performed by a Data Scientist Worker.
  • It can (typically) have Data Science Skill Requirements.
  • It can (often) be related to a Machine Learning Engineer Job.
  • It can (often) report to a Data Science Manager.
  • It can (often) interact with a Data Engineer.
  • It can (often) be associated to a Data Science Job Level.
  • It can (often) be described by a Data Science Job Description.
  • It can (often) have Data Science Leadership & Communication Requirements.
  • It can be posted by a Data Science Employer (within a data science job market).
  • It can require an ability to:
    • Use of high-level data-oriented languages and libraries.
    • Apply principles of statistical theory and machine learning theory.
    • Deliver prediction systems in production.
    • Deliver clustering models.
    • Design hypothesis testing systems.
    • Design predictive model features.
    • Design predictive models.
    • Design data science systems.
    • Develop analytics solutions.
    • Develop data summarization processes.
    • Develop predictive systems.
    • Develop published DS algorithms.
    • Develop textfile-based data aggregation.
    • Evaluate analytic technologies.
    • Identify under-performing analytic systems.
    • Improve the predictive performance of existing systems.
    • Lead migration efforts to an enhanced data analysis framework.
    • Manage data science vendor relationships.
    • Performs SQL queries, spreadsheet-based analysis; and scripting-based analysis.
    • Performs numeracy tasks.
    • Performs statistical hypothesis tests.
    • Proposes analytic solutions.
    • Proposes analytical capabilities.
    • Reviews existing analytics technologies.
    • Visualizes via data summaries and what-if analyses.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • Intern Data Scientist Job.
  • Level-1 Data Scientist Job.
  • Level-2 Data Scientist Job.
  • Level-3 Data Scientist Job.
  • Senior Data Scientist Job.
  • Staff Data Scientist Job.
  • Chief Data Scientist Job.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Software Engineer Job.
  • a DBA Job, Business Analyst Job, Product Manager Job.
• See: Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, Business Competency.

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References

• http://www.glassdoor.com/Job/data-scientist-jobs-SRCH_KO0,14.htm
• http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Quant-Data-Science-career-ladder-at-Google

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