Full-Time R Programming Rock Star (10080) – Job Opportunity @ Salt Lake City, U.S.
Job Description
Object Systems International (OSI) is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud and Mobile systems and software development services. Since 1998, the company’s products have been used to manage business-critical data for small businesses and Fortune 100 clients alike. OSI-build software serves tens of thousands of users in travel, government, healthcare, and other markets. OSI is headquartered in the United States, with a European operations center located in Sofia, Bulgaria.
We are looking for an R programming rock star to wow us with statistical and data analysis magic on a high-velocity Scrum team. If this is you, you will be passionate about velocity, technology, and leading by example within the Scrum framework, on top of being a technically proficient R data miner. In short, you build great models fast, and you love doing it.
This is a long-term, W2 position, with tremendous potential to continuously deliver high value to the customer in weekly increments.
Responsibilities:
*Take personal responsibility for determining what you are going to do to help your team meet its objectives every day and every sprint
*Take personal responsibility for ensuring you understand the work your product owner is asking you to do every sprint
*Consciously work to become T-shaped in your technical and process skillsets
*Mentor your teammates in your strengths
*Give your PO reasons things can be done instead of reasons things can’t be done
*Use velocity and quality as your process yardsticks, and fitness of the software as your technical yardstick
*Take pride in what you do, and how fast you do it
*Build statistical and data analysis routines for data mining a warehouse
*Extract, report, and graph outputs and outcomes
*Crank out high-value stories every sprint
Requirements:
*2+ years statistical programming using R
*Proficiency with dplyr, ggplot, and ggviz
*Data extraction and reporting
*Willingness to learn the Scrum framework
*Not know the meaning of “impossible”
*Love to make and keep reasonable commitments
*Up to 10% travel
Nice to have (pluses):
*Passion for Scrum, and the ability to tell us where this passion comes from
*Experience using R in AWS or another cloud environment
*AWS Redshift
*Passion for and practical experience with TDD, CI, and CD, with ability to mentor other team members in it
*Healthcare
*ETL, reports, and DB analysis using Python or other dynamic language
*Degree in CS, statistics, mathematics, or related field of study
OSI offers:
*W2 employment with a competitive salary and benefits
*Friendly work environment and nice attitude
*Work-life balance
*Interaction with a great customer building market-leading software at a high velocity
*Opportunity to see Scrum at scale
*Opportunities for career development in a fast-paced, growing international company
