Senior Data Scientist

About the role: 

The Data Intelligence Center of Excellence is looking for a high-performing Senior Data Scientist to support Blackbaud customers through the creation and maintenance of intelligent data products.  Additionally, the senior data scientist will collaborate with team members on research and thought leadership initiatives.   

What you’ll do: 

• Use statistical techniques to manage and analyze large volumes of complex data to generate compelling insights to include predictive modeling, storytelling, and data visualization 

• Integrate data from multiple sources to create dashboards and other end-user reports 

• Interact with internal customers to identify and define topics for research and experimentation 

• Contribute to white papers, presentations, and conferences as needed 

• Communicate insights and findings from analyses to product, service, and business managers 

• Work with data science team to automate and streamline modeling processes 

• Manage standard tables and programs within the data science infrastructure, providing updates as needed 

• Maintain updated documentation of products and processes 

• Participate in team planning and backlog grooming for data science roadmap 

What you'll bring:  

We are seeking a Data Scientist with 5+ years of hands-on experience demonstrating strong proficiency in the following areas

• 2+ years of machine learning and/or statistics experience  

• 2+ years of experience with data analysis in Python, R, SQL, Spark, or similar 

• Comfortable asking questions and performing in-depth research when given vague or incomplete specifications 

• Confidence to learn product functionality on own initiative via back-end research, online training resources, product manuals, and developer forums 

• Experience with Databricks, Databricks SQL Analytics is a plus 

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