Gartner- Senior Principal - Business Analytics

What makes Gartner a GREAT fit for you?

When you join Gartner Research, you'll be part of a leading-edge team that values bold ideas and intellectual courage. You'll contribute to our double-digit growth by providing our clients worldwide the unbiased insight they need to make the right decisions on their key initiatives. Through constant learning, discovery and collaboration you'll not only help clients through insights on strategic and management topics, you'll grow your career and the scope of your impact across industries. Our culture demands hard work and rewards it with exceptional opportunity. If you are intellectually curious and principally motivated by ideas, Gartner is looking for you.

About this role:

The Research Business Analytics (RBA) team is part of the Research & Advisory Strategy organization. We power fact-based decision making by providing data, insights and analytic tools to continuously improve our business operationally and strategically. We are growing our team and we are looking for a Data Scientist to help us evolve to the next level. This highly visible position involves applying advanced analytic techniques to discover insights, make predictions, and generate recommendations to propel mission critical business priorities. The Senior Principal position provides ample opportunity for game changing technical thought leadership and expertise that will be recognized and rewarded.

What you'll do:

- Execute large scale, high impact data modeling projects with responsibility for developing, validating, socializing, and maintaining data-driven analytics that provide business insights to increase operational efficiency and customer value.

- As needed, provide ad hoc modeling and analytical insights to inform strategic and operational initiatives.

- Conduct all phases of the analytics process. Including: Understanding business issues, proposing technical solutions, data wrangling, data cleaning, data analysis, feature engineering, model selection, model development, model validation, presentation of results and insights, model implementation, model documentation.

What you will need:

- 7-9 years of work experience

- 4+ years data modeling experience in a business environment.

- Bachelors Degree required. Masters degree Preferred. Degrees with a concentration in statistics, data science, operational research, computer science or related field preferred.

- In-depth knowledge of statistical principles and their application in modeling and data analysis.

- Experience developing and applying descriptive, predictive, prescriptive models.

- In depth NLP knowledge and application experience.

- Proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark. Basic skills in PBI, Excel, Power Point.

- Experience with multiple modeling techniques such as: Time Series, Random Forests, Clustering, Neural Networks, Generalized Linear Models, Optimization, DOE, Dimensionality Reduction.

- Experience with churn analysis, profiling, recommendation systems.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver against milestones.

Who you are:

Some of the shared characteristics of our successful hires include:

- Sound logic to solve business problems using structured approach

- Aspiration to constantly learn and improve

- Ability to gather, analyze, restructure, identify and articulate insights from qualitative and quantitative data

- Self-driven and can work as a part of geographically- distributed teams.

- Ready to roll up your sleeves and get the job done

What we offer:

In addition to an outstanding work environment with rapid advancement potential, Gartner research team enjoys exceptional benefits, including:

- Competitive base salary

- Great on job learning

- Inordinate work life balance

About Gartner:

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the worlds leading information technology research and advisory company. We deliver the technology-related insight necessary for our clients to make the right decisions, every day. We work with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A. Visit gartner.com to learn more.