Data Scientist III 922 views

Data Scientist III

At LexisNexis, they develop the legal professions most innovative products for data analysis, visualization, and research – uncovering insights about judges rulings, revealing critical cases, enabling lawyers to make data-driven decisions, and more. LexisNexis seeks a Senior Data Scientist to join their rapidly growing team. As a senior member of the Data Science team, you will design systems to tackle tough problems in the legal domain and expand our award-winning products.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Evaluate, fix, and help in the maintenance our data assets and training/evaluation data sets
• Develop and implement scalable machine learning-based solutions
• Pariticpate in model reviews with key stakeholders, including stakeholders with limited statistical backgrounds from among that set
• Work with product leaders to apply data science solutions
• Maintain current knowledge-base of best-in-class algorithms, API’s, and open-source methods and be able to quickly evaluate alternatives
• Translate complex business requirements into actionable stories with reasonable time estimates
• Participate in knowledge sharing sessions (e.g. Guilds and Chapters)

DATA SCIENCE AND NLP SKILLS

• Formal training in dimensionality reduction, clustering, and sequence classification algorithms
• 3+ years experience using Machine Learning package ScikitLearn
• 3+ years experience using NLP methods  such as OpenNLP, StanfordNLP, Mallet, LDA, word2vec

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

• 3+ years recent coding experience using Python AND/OR (Java OR Scala)
• SQL programming experience

CLOUD AND DATABASE SKILLS

• 1-3 years experience developing in AWS
• 1-3 years experience working in high-performance / large-scale (big data) computing systems (e.g Hadoop, Spark)

TEAM AND SOCIAL SKILLS

•  Strong collaboration and team skills (DIR/MGR)