by Ronald Barron | Feb 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Twitter
What You’ll Do:
In this role, your North Star is to help the Quantitative Research team become the gold standard for research in the industry. You will lead quantitative research in your domain and spearhead cross-functional initiatives with teams like Product, Qualitative Research, and Data Science to build and improve the products, tools, and policies that are at the foundation of how customers experience and get more out of our platform. You will be an integral part of developing robust sampling and weighting methodologies for various populations and projects, and streamlining the quantitative research process via automation and standardization. You will build in research at multiple stages of the product development process to help our Product and Research partner teams understand their customers’ perceptions and achieve strategic goals. You will partner with others to identify where and how we should evaluate ideas, concepts, and existing experiences, and assist the team in making critical design decisions affecting the user experience. Your work will also require you to design the best approach for a wide variety of user experience questions, balancing timing, methodological rigor, research strategy, company goals, and business needs. Above all else, as a senior member of the team you’ll mentor junior members by investing your energy and talents in supporting the career growth and development of the people on your team.
Qualifications
Who You Are:
You’re an experienced researcher with a strong understanding of how to integrate qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. You are an expert in survey and experiment design, and have a strong, working understanding of survey methodology, statistical inference, regression modeling, exploratory data analysis, and mathematical demography. You know when to engage with teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Content Strategy, Strategy & Operations, and Data Science, what questions to ask, where to probe, and how to implement the most effective research strategies and analysis methods. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy setting your own research goals, managing workloads and expectations, and delivering actionable research findings and recommendations. You’re passionate about Twitter and believe that great experiences are always inspired by a deep understanding of the user.
Required competencies:
- Expertise in applying end-to-end survey methodology, e.g., survey design (including sampling and weighting, bias correction), principled questionnaire construction, instrumentation, and standard methodologies, to company, business, and product goals
- Strong understanding of foundational frequentist inferential statistics, e.g., experimentation, hypothesis testing, correlation vs causation
- Ability to effectively communicate complex data in an accessible and meaningful way to non-quantitative audiences, as well as build excitement and engagement about research
- Ability to connect business problems to measurable outcomes and shape business strategies, e.g., connecting user research to behaviors and/or revenue and creating actionable design/research recommendations
- Ability to transform ambiguous problem spaces into research plans that are flexible to external deadlines and priority adjustments, and to drive high visibility projects from initiation to completion
- Ability to envision and execute against a research roadmap in new and novel spaces
- Ability to execute while building, leading, and influencing collaborative cross-functional relationships with diverse groups of technical and non-technical stakeholders
Requirements:
- MS or PhD in Statistics, Political Science, Survey Methodology, or other Social Science or a related field
- 8+ years conducting user experience research and/or market research preferred
- Experience in psychometric analysis, cognitive testing, and/or developing frameworks & mental models
- Experience with Bayesian statistical models, primary data collection, field experiments, experimental design, missing data, low response rate probability samples / nonprobability samples, observational causal inference (regression adjustment, matching, propensity score stratification)
- Experience in complex data visualization (time-series, statistical distributions, maps, hierarchies, networks)
- Experience working with large scale data sets (logs analysis, surveys, experimental design)
- Expertise in statistical programming languages such as R, Python, and SQL
- Experience with large data technologies Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Spark, Hive, BigQuery, or Presto, preferred
- Experience working with Product and Design teams preferred
- Comfort with Data Science including machine learning, natural language processing a plus
- Experience with Tableau or similar platform a plus
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Citizens Bank
Description
In the role of Senior IAM Data Analyst, you will be responsible for driving the initiative to enhance Data Visualization, reporting, KPI s and data analytics across the IAM organization, and will collaborate with multiple stakeholders to build, own, and maintain Data modelling and Analytics to create new solutions and provide critical support to the operations and decision making of the IAM organization.
This critical role will provide the foundation required to become a data driven organization and achieve the overall compliance needs of Citizens.
Responsibilities will include:
- Implementing and consolidating data sources for improved reporting and analytics across IAM organization
- Working with multiple stakeholders to design and build key metrics, reports, dashboard and capabilities for effective execution of business goals and roadmaps.
- Using data to identify action items and drive change.
- Conducting analysis using advanced data mining and data visualization tools like Tableau to support IAM risk management, operations and governance teams to optimize efficiency.
- Creating Ad Hoc reports for providing insight for day to day strategic business decisions, audit and to provide insight to determine operational impact, trends and opportunities.
- Leading and mentoring junior analyst, and the execution of projects and initiatives
Qualifications
Experience and Skills:
- 4 years of data analytics and statistical modeling experience
- Proven experience with data visualization using Tableau, Metabase, SQL or similar tools.
- Strong SQL knowledge and experience working with databases
- Experience mapping and automating authoritative data sources to real time metrics dashboards.
- Ability to make complex data sets more understandable through data models and dashboards
- Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills with key attention to detail
- Preferred data governance and audit experience
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Experience with regulatory compliance frameworks (e.g. SOX, GLBA, Payment Security, NIST) preferred
- Self-starter with the initiative to self-manage and mentor others
- Attention to detail and focus on quality
- Clear and honest communicator adept at communication and negotiation skills to effect organizational change to align with IAM roadmap and strategies
Education and Certifications:
- Bachelor s Degree
- CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISACA or other relevant security certifications are a plus
Hours & Work Schedule
Hours per Week: 40
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday
This position is not available in Colorado
by Ronald Barron | Feb 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: UnitedHealth Group
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- As a Solutions Architect, you will ensure that we are building enterprise information systems that are truly aligned with the business by engaging in the following activities
- For any given project, quickly absorb the business drivers, and assess the IT assets needed to create the capabilities required to fulfill the business vision and requirements
- Understand the Enterprise Architecture roadmap, influence to Modernize architectures
- Research, identify, and recommend Modern Architecture patterns for solving business problems
- Rapidly navigate between high-level business vision, through Product/Capability/System level requirements, identify architecturally significant changes to provide Solution specification
- Identify candidate solution approaches, and model cost-benefit tradeoffs of each
- Rapidly develop a Conceptual model of the chosen solution, and document using a combination of text, diagrams and human interactions
- Collaborate to enable team – business, development, operations – to align to conceptual models
- Create the solution documentation (Agile Solution Intent and Software Models) that will provide both a basis for project sign-off by all stakeholders, and the foundation Product Teams
- Cultivate role as trusted advisor of all parties (business, RTE and Delivery)
- Gracefully transition solution leadership to the Product/Delivery team, once the solution is clearly understood, documented and under development
- Leverage your experience, versatility and quick-learning to jump in when and where needed to help the project through sticking points
- Provider Governance and Oversight to guide implementation with enterprise architecture direction
- Guide and mentor the work of other architects assigned to the project
- Seek opportunities to create efficiencies or advance architectural agenda, by identifying reusable assets
- Take leadership role in delivering and driving solution strategy at scale
- technologies across the organization. In senior level roles, leads business solutions, capabilities, and is a solid influencer that engages with client executives and stakeholders
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Experience architecting products against and using Kafka is a must specifically eventing patterns, event driven development, etc.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. MongoDB, SQL Server, MySQL, Cassandra)
- Experience architecting/designing scalable systems
- Experience in collaborating with Business/Product Managers to understand business needs to aligning architecture/solution options with business needs
- Experience with applying and harvesting software patterns
- Experience with delivering Agile Software Architectures & software models
- Experience in navigating in a complex enterprise, be able to take initiative and influence Enterprise Architecture direction (Business and IT capabilities)
- Experience working with diverse Global Team
- Technical background i.e. software development, systems development, etc.
- Expert in Modern Eventing Architecture, Microservices, DevOps & Cloud native Architecture patterns
- Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential requirement of this role. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination prior to employment to ensure compliance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to influence architecture strategies
- Intellectual curiosity – a desire to always learn more than seems necessary to accomplish the task at hand
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: UnitedHealth Group
Primary Responsibilities:
- Drive evolution of UHC Conversational Experience leveraging AI/NLP technologies
- Develop Semantic Search architecture in support of B360 Benefit Search aligned with UHG Global Search initiative
- Work on PoC and prototype implementations for Conversational AI and Semantic Search
- Perform Data Analysis, train and maintain AI/NLP models supporting UHC Conversational AI and Semantic Search
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of conversational AI, AI/ML, NLP
- 5+ years of experience with Data Engineering
- 5+ years of experience with Public Cloud
Preferred Qualification:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: US Foods
The Technical Architect is a practical position that involves leading the project implementations from a technological perspective. The position demands direct interaction with management, project managers, and technical teams. The Technical Architect provides technical designs, implementation, guidance, and training to the implementation teams as well as ensuring that implementations follow the best practice configuration principles.
The work is completed 100% remote anywhere in the continental United States.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Providing the technical connection between management, the project managers, and developers.
- Providing technical guidance for team members.
- Working with teammates and advising them on key architectural decisions concerning the platform and the supporting technologies.
- Evaluating projects from a technical stance, guaranteeing that the development methods used are correct and practical.
- Signing off system requirements and estimating timelines for project completion.
- Producing technical architectures that are modifiable, dependable, and scalable.
- Working with Enterprise Architecture to establish technology domain standards and review of new technologies for business application.
- Organizing technical project reviews.
- Mentoring team members on technology enhancements and standards development.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education/Training:
- B.S. in Computer Science, IT, a related field, or equivalent work experience, required.
Related Experience/Requirements:
- Minimum 6 years’ experience leading project implementations related to infrastructure technology directly within the VMWare architecture function.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Excellent spoken and written interpersonal and communication skills.
- Influencing skills over a wide spectrum of management and technical contacts.
- Ability to compel issue resolution across assorted groups within a corporate framework.
- Minimum college or university diploma in related field.
- Ability to operate across multiple projects concurrently; assume the responsibility for the appropriate technical and architectural implementation of projects.
- Skills in customer solutions implementation methodologies.
- Commitment to customer satisfaction and check customer focus
- Documented ability to communicate the value project solution to resonate with all levels of the customer’s company.
Preferred Qualifications:
- High level of technical field expertise in Layer 1 – Layer 7 technologies.
- Working knowledge of Windows Server architectures.
- Working knowledge of firewall and web filtering technologies.
- Deep knowledge or experience in any of the following architectures: Internet / MPLS / VoIP / client-server / Network Security / Microsoft / HP.
- Working knowledge of InfoBlox Grid Technologies for DNS, DHCP
- Deep knowledge or experience in any of the following technical disciplines: network, servers, storage, database management, middleware, and/or operations.
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