Data Scientist

TransVoyant is seeking a Data Scientist to drive live and predictive data analytics and development for our patented Continuous Decision Intelligence™ Platform. The ideal candidate will structure data and create the analytics needed to provide insights into our customer domains–ranging from predicting customer demand to forecasting port disruptions to getting in front of risks to national security. This position will do data discovery, interpret, craft models and build streams for Insights in TransVoyant CDI™.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Become an expert on TransVoyant CDI™ Platform solutions and how they solve pressing customer challenges within Supply Chain and National Security arenas
• Identify, retrieve, manipulate, relate and exploit multiple TransVoyant structured and unstructured data sets from thousands of various sources (ex. tweets, live aircraft, forecast weather), including building or generating new data sets as appropriate
• Create methods, models and algorithms to understand the meaning of streaming live data, translating it into insightful predictive output for customer applications and data products
• Educate internal staff (ex. development, sales, marketing) on how data science and resulting predictions can be productized for key industry verticals
• Represent TransVoyant and our solutions to customers and prospects at industry networking events and tradeshows
• Keep up to date on competitive solutions, products and services
• May need to travel up to 10% of time

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 2+ years of cloud-based data parsing and analysis, data manipulation and transformation, and visualization experience
• Understanding of Hadoop and Apache based tools to exploit massive sets of TransVoyant data
• Programming and scripting experience with Scala or Java is considered a plus
• Experience with Spark considered a plus
• Experience with Kafka or other streaming architecture frameworks considered a plus
• Ability to explain technical and statistical findings to non-technical users and decision makers
• Experience in technical consulting and conceptual solution design
• Domain knowledge in Supply Chain, and/or transportation management and visibility technologies is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree is required

ABOUT TRANSVOYANT

TransVoyant delivers our customers continuous insights to increase revenues, reduce costs and manage risks by combining the current and future behavior of their enterprises, their ecosystems and they dynamic world around them. We are innovative, creative, focused on customer success and love what we do. Team members enjoy highly competitive compensation, a fast-growing and flexible work environment, comprehensive benefits, 100% 401k matches, unlimited vacation days and professional development opportunities.