Senior Data Scientist

About this role

Nelnet Business Services (NBS), a division of Nelnet, Inc., provides payment technology, education services, and learning management solutions to education and faith-based organizations, serving more than 1,300 higher education institutions, 11,500 K-12 schools, 3,500 churches, and millions of individual students, families, and supporters across the globe. Our culture of service enables us to form long-lasting and trusted partnerships, while our focus on creativity and innovative solutions empowers our customer communities to thrive.


As a Nelnet company, the perks at NBS go beyond our benefits package. You’re part of a community, invested in you as an individual and united by our mission to create opportunities for people where they live, learn and work.


The Senior Data Scientist is responsible for leading the development and implementation of machine learning models to solve complex business problems. This position works with large datasets, cleans and pre-processes data, and performs exploratory data analysis to understand the underlying patterns and trends. The Senior Data Scientist is also responsible for mentoring more junior Data Scientists, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and presenting findings and recommendations to senior leadership.


JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct advanced analyses and statistical deep dives, with a focus on producing actionable recommendations and strategic guidance for decision makers.
• Develop and deploy custom models and algorithms using data and machine learning libraries to solve complex business problems.
• Mine, clean, process, transform and join data from a variety of sources including SQL servers, AWS environments, Azure, SnowFlake, SalesForce, internal systems, and flat files.
• Identify, wrangle, scrape, and assemble new data sources from the web, data aggregators, and public sources.
• Build rich, interactive dashboards and visualizations from the ground up using PowerBI.
• Compile and prese...