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Senior Data Scientist
| Company | Caterpillar Inc. |
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| Location | Peoria, IL, USA |
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| Salary | $110520 – $179640 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Highly skilled in using SQL, Dashboards (Tableau, Power BI), Python, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Snowflake or cloud data services.
- Highly skilled in data analytics techniques, automation, data science, AI to drive business KPI results.
- Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with internal and external business partners including senior leaders.
- Knowledge of the activities, tasks, practices and deliverables for assessing and documenting business opportunities; ability to assess the benefits, risks, and success factors of potential applications.
- Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
- Knowledge of the concepts, methodologies and methods of research analysis; ability to locate, interpret and evaluate research findings compiled and documented by others.
Responsibilities
- Transform business questions into technical requirements that can deliver flexible, sustainable data products to serve the business.
- Investigate and assess gaps in business process and data assets to recommend changes to and creation of new data products and automations.
- Lead the development of junior data scientists and citizen developers – creating/curating guides, resources, and standards to support implementation of the analytics strategy.
- Develop engaging, actionable, and visually appealing digital products and dashboards.
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional experience in data analytics or data science role
- Intermediate to advanced understanding of Python or another object-oriented programming language
- Technical background using datasets in SQL
- Experience creating visuals and modeling data in Power BI
- Ability to collect required business data through various data sources and apply data analysis techniques to establish, modify, and maintain business data structures
- Experience with project management concepts including project charters, scheduling and planning projects and successful completion
- 5+ years of business insights and automation related experience preferred
