Data Scientist

About the role:

The Data Scientist will be responsible for managing, understanding and analyzing in-house and customer data – including text mining, developing predictive systems, risk scoring, creating efficient algorithms, data quality improvement and other related activities. This individual will work closely with the TRSS Analysts to drive, identify, evaluate, design and implement statistical analyses of gathered open source, proprietary, and customer data to create analytic metrics and tools to support TRSS analysts, customers and existing product offerings.

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to contribute directly to the features and capabilities deployed in our applications. They will work with customers to assist in gathering requirements and contributing to Statements of Work (SOWs) for new sales or POCs and executing design post sale while getting deeply involved into the delivery of the proposed solutions. The role will interface with the customer and provide continuity of technical and data-exploration expertise to ensure we are delivering a workable solution that meets the customer requirements and technical capabilities. The position requires a proactive, mission-oriented person who strives to produce the best possible work for the customer.

Job Description

Define, manipulate, aggregate and use both structured and unstructured “big data” in order to support
descriptive and predictive analytics across the businesses.

• Collaborate with scientists, product groups and content groups to perform “big data” aggregations, symbology mapping, and manipulations of important data-sets
• Perform statistical (and machine learned) analyses on data to serve business purposes
• Narrate stories (sometimes to a non-technical audience) about our content and processes by data analysis and visualization
• Define and develop software for the analysis and manipulation of large and very large data-sets
• Guide the architecture of “big-data” business processes with an eye towards robustness, parsimony and reproducibility (at senior levels)

Additional Information

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your data quality improvement experience to a world class organization that is leading the way in both content and technology to serve and protect our citizens home and abroad? Do you have the skills necessary to manage, understand, and analyze inhouse
and customer data including text mining, developing predictive systems, risk scoring, creating efficient algorithms, data quality improvement and other related activities? Then Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for you!

What You’ll Do: As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for driving, identify, evaluate, design and implement statistical analyses of gathered open source, proprietary, and customer data to create analytic metrics and tools to support TRSS analysts, customers and existing product offerings. Successful
candidates will have the opportunity to contribute directly to the features and capabilities deployed in our applications. They will work with customers to assist in gathering requirements and contributing to Statements of Work (SOWs) for new sales or POCs, and executing design post sale while getting deeply
involved into the delivery of the proposed solutions. The role will interface with the customer and provide continuity of technical and data-exploration expertise to ensure we are delivering a workable solution that meets the customer requirements and technical capabilities. The position requires a proactive, mission-oriented person who strives to produce the best possible work for the customer.

As the Data Scientist, you will also contribute to a variety of areas including:

• Working with interdisciplinary engineering and research teams on designing, building and deploying data analysis systems for large data sets.
• Working closely with customers to apply data science to their mission specific content.
• Creating algorithms to extract information from large data sets.
• Establishment of scalable, efficient, automated processes for model development, model validation, model implementation, and large-scale data analysis.
• Development of metrics and prototypes that can be used to drive business decisions.
• Providing thought-leadership and dependable execution on diverse projects.
• Identification of emergent trends and opportunities for future client growth and development.
• Researching and identifying Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods – including Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods.
• Identification of new applications of AI in the context of Thomson Reuters and TRSS content sets.
• Exploring existing data for insights, and recommends additional sources of data for improvement.

About You:

You’re a good fit for the role of Data Scientist if you have:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, computer science, mathematics physical/biological sciences, or GIS).
• 3-5 years of experience with data cleaning, analysis, programming, and reporting of results to internal or external stakeholders (education can substitute for some years of experience)
• Programming skills in one or more major programming languages (Python/R/Java).
• Are creative, intellectually curious, and willing to experiment and work in dynamic organizations and situations, sometimes with little oversight or well-defined requirements.
• The ability to take ownership for defined areas of accountability, most critically the integrity of the technical and data design in terms of meeting customer needs, design delivery and supportability.
• A good understanding of distributed computing concepts.
• Experience facilitating and gathering input from subject matter experts.
• Excellent understanding of ML, NLP, and statistical methodologies.
• The ability to test ideas and adapt methods quickly end to end from data extraction to implementation and validation.
• Strong planning, time management, and organizational skills.
• A team player / self-starter mentality with the ability to work using own initiative.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. national security clearance.

Additional Desired Skills:

• Big Data analytics experience (preferred, but not required).
• Previous experience with data modeling for graphs (preferred, but not required).
• Experience with search engines, classification algorithms, recommendation systems, and relevance evaluation methodologies (preferred, but not required).

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.

Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $101,640 - $188,760.

This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.


About Us

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