This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future. As the Lead Data Scientist, you are responsible for leading the development of data-driven solutions for Spectrum Reach’s advertising sales business. You will utilize analytical, statistical, and programming skills to clean, aggregate, and analyze large data sets and interpret results. This position requires a strong command of statistical techniques, machine learning algorithms, and big data technologies.
Responsibilities
Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience
Plan and lead the complete analytics life-cycle for problem solving, including: requirements gathering, problem formulation, data grooming, data exploration, model prototyping, model validation, and algorithm productionalization
Leverage knowledge in analytical and statistical algorithms to help stakeholders explore methods to improve their business
Utilize experience and feedback to recommend options during the development/research/analysis phase
Lead large-scale exploratory data analyses for new data sources or new uses for existing data sources
Establish links across existing data sources and find new, interesting data correlations
Plan effectively to ensure analytics products are flexible, modular, and both leverage and contribute to the team’s existing reusable code base
Exercise thought leadership and discretion in tailoring the tools, approaches, and data used to meet the needs of the particular problem
Responsible for interpretation of results – for both causal inferences and predictive effectiveness
Synthesize appropriate recommendations for action and changes
Present findings, suggested actions and changes to a broad audience, and manage follow-ups and execution
Help teach and explain techniques and tools used to a broad set of business-intelligence, data, and analytics professionals with varied backgrounds
Create project plans to help team achieve defined project goals within deadlines; proactively communicate status and escalate issues as needed
Mentor and train junior team members as well as assist leadership in setting strategic vision
Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
Demonstrated mastery and experience with languages such as R and/or Python (including relevant packages) in support of advanced analytics and AI/ML
Demonstrated experience with SQL, large data sets and the tools to efficiently obtain, transform, and store large volumes at scale
Firm understanding of data architecture and data warehousing techniques
Experience and proficiency with commercial cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP
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Demonstrated experience and solid theoretical foundation of the properties of the major families of machine learning models, including regression, classification, clustering, neural networks, and large language models
Experience with large scale multi-series time series forecasting
Command of advanced mathematical concepts including calculus, PDEs, probability, and statistics, and the ability to independently learn any necessary additional concepts
Effective synthesis and presentation skills
Ability to communicate results and recommendations to a wide variety of audiences
Demonstrated ability and desire to continually expand skill set, and learn from and teach others
Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, operations research and/or equivalent combination of education and experience
7+ years data manipulation and statistical modeling as a Scientist, Consultant, Architect, DBA, or Engineer
7+ years SQL/R/Python Programming
Nice to have:
Experience in the advertising sales, cable and/or telecommunications industry
Advanced Python knowledge and deep experience in the AI/ML ecosystem surrounding Python
Experience in Operations-research/optimization, in particular mixed-integer programming, multi-objective optimization, CPLEX and Gurobi solver configuration and performance tuning
Experience in AWS ecosystem (including EMR, Glue, Athena, SageMaker, Bedrock)
Experience in Snowflake architecture, resource optimization, and performance tuning
Experience in distributed computing paradigms and parallel processing, including Spark optimization techniques and performance tuning
Experience in MLOps, including end-to-end ML pipelines with automated training, validation, and deployment, model registry systems for versioning and governance
Experience with development of systems using generative AI, reasoning models and agentic AI methods
Master’s Degree in related field
About the Company
Spectrum Reach provides custom advertising solutions for local, regional and national clients. Spectrum Reach creates scalable advertising and marketing services driven by aggregated and de-identified data insights and award-winning creative services. Spectrum is a suite of advanced communications services offered by Charter Communications, the leading broadband and video company in the nation and the fastest growing mobile provider in its footprint, with services available to more than 70 million homes and small to large businesses across 45 states. When you join our team, you’ll be keeping customers connected to Seamless Connectivity and Entertainment with Spectrum Internet®, Mobile, TV and Voice products.
