Data Scientist - PhD required - onsite Dallas, TX

Welltower™ Inc. is a global leader in residential wellness and healthcare infrastructure, transforming senior living and wellness-focused real estate. They are seeking a Data Scientist who will work with the data science team to analyze data and enhance business performance through predictive analytics and data engineering techniques.

What you'll do:

• Assist the Business Insights team with Welltower’s data and analytics strategy and predictive analytics application across Welltower
• Work on creating predictive models and solutions to consume data for the purpose of analytics
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Extending company’s data with third party sources of information as and when needed
• Analyzing the output of the predictive analytics model to make meaningful information valuable to Welltower investment process
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner

What they're looking for:

• 1-3 years of post-education Data Scientist work experience
• Knowledge of the data and analytics landscape and with at least 3 years of work experience
• Strong technical skills to include a deep understanding of (but not limited to): Reporting, Programming, Predictive Modeling, and Solution Architect
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as Neural Networks, etc
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, MatLab, Python etc. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
• Experience with data mining and data visualization tools, such as Alteryx, Tableau etc
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, correlation, statistical testing, regression, etc
• Good communication skills and data oriented personality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with business and technology partners
• Familiarity with Real Estate and Healthcare industries systems and specialist in business consolidation in diverse source systems
• Knowledge of enterprise profitability and business planning and forecasting
• PhD in Mathematics or Statistics or Economics with a focus on Predictive Analytics solution is required

Benefits:

• Competitive Base Salary + Annual Bonus
• Generous Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Program – purchase shares at a 15% discount
• Employer-matching 401(k) Program + Profit Sharing Program
• Student Debt Program – we’ll contribute up to $10,000 towards your student loans!
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Comprehensive and progressive Medical/Dental/Vision options
• Professional Growth