by Angela Guess
American Express is looking for a Data Decision Scientist in New York, NY. According to the post, “This position will be a part of a highly motivated and innovative team driving the strategy of Amex. Challenges will include designing the winning applications that will elevate Amex to the forefront of the digital revolution. To execute on these applications, this position will lead the development of new Big Data capabilities that leverage existing industry knowledge and platforms, refining for the Amex context, and innovate new and novel solutions.”
Responsibilities include the following: “Developing high impact digital strategies that leverage Amex’s unique closed loop and Big Data capabilities. Develop solutions that mine complex digital behavioral data and transform it into actionable information. Intelligently integrating traditional structured data with unstructured data from web and social media. Identifying communities within the American Express ecosystem of Cardmembers and Merchants and partner with Marketing teams to devise new marketing strategies. Prior experience working with very large datasets using Big Data tools and platforms (Hadoop, PIG/HIVE/Mahout).”
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