Intern – Data Scientist (SUMMER)

The Data Scientist intern will work hands-on with other Data Scientists to reconcile month to month financial services data. The Data Scientist Intern’s responsibilities include collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to identify insight requirements and applying creativity to test hypotheses, prepare data, build models, analyze and visualize patterns and integrate the results into innovative solutions. The Data Scientist Intern will be a champion of automating processes utilizing coding and scripting skills.

Internship Notes:

• Internship will begin May 20th, 2024

• Intern must be able to work from the Conway, AR office
• Interns are considered part-time and will work 20-29 hours
• Intern must not require sponsorship in the future

What you will learn and do:

• Apply algorithms relying on knowledge of statistical modeling to improve the performance/quality of existing products
• Build, evaluate and optimize models
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand business and insight goals
• Collaborate with other data scientists and team leads to define requirements including data sources, patterns, and implementation
• Work with the account team to transition development projects to production systems

What will set you apart:

• Experience with applying statistics and data science tools on datasets
• Basic to moderate SQL experience to model and identify patterns
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, etc
• Ability to read and understand java logs and xml to identify issues
• Ability to leverage critical data-driven thinking and enthusiasm for translating data into actionable insight to generate consistently accurate and useful analysis and models
• Balances desire for quantitative rigor with realities of inconsistent business data
• Attention to detail and time management delivering high quality work for multiple projects across several engagements while meeting deadlines
• Coursework in a quantitative field (Data Science, Statistics, Math) or related degree programs

Primary Location City/State:

Conway, Arkansas

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Acxiom is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person’s race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, military status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics or other protected status.

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