Director, Data Science

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Full Time Greenwood Village, Colorado Posted 08/14/2025 Anticipated Close Date: 2025-08-21 09:06 PM (UTC) Areas of interest: Business Analysis, IT Management/Project Management, Leadership Requisition Number: 2025-55610 BDA705

Are you ready to lead the execution of advanced analytic techniques to generate causal inferences, predictions, and recommendations for business process improvements? As the Director, Data Science at Spectrum, you will apply your expertise in techniques and algorithms to identify key investment areas, synthesize actionable insights, and communicate findings to diverse audiences. You will also recruit and supervise a small team, manage projects, and collaborate with key customers to establish roadmaps, present results, and address issues, driving impactful changes across the organization.


How You’ll Make an Impact

  • Plan and lead the execution of the analytics lifecycle, leveraging significant experience in leading this type of work in previous roles
  • Use survey varied data sources in relational databases, Hadoop, flat files, and external sources for analytic relevance
  • Execute the full scope of advanced analytic techniques, performing problem formulation, requirement analysis, and planning
  • Responsible for data surveying, profiling, and pre-processing; model data management for validation (e.g. holdout, cross-validation)
  • Selection of appropriate algorithms and execution
  • Responsible for interpretation of results – for both causal inferences and predictive effectiveness; synthesize appropriate recommendations for action and changes
  • Present findings suggested actions and changes to a broad audience and manage follow-ups and execution
  • Help teach and explain techniques and tools used to a broad set of business intelligence, data, and analytics professionals with varied backgrounds
  • Develop an effective leadership team and assists them with developing their direct reports to drive a high-performance culture
  • Manage internal client relationships, including planning, budgeting, roadmap, issue resolution, and overall accountability for results and client satisfaction
  • Exercise thought leadership and discretion in tailoring the tools, approaches, and data used to meet the needs of the particular problem

Working Conditions: Office environment; Travel as required

What You’ll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications

  • Education: Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, operations research or another quantitatively-focus field
  • Experience:
    • 10+ years of statistical analysis experience
    • 8+ years business analysis experience
    • 8+ years SQL/R/SAS programming experience
    • 5+ years management and supervision (general leadership and management experience in the field of analytics and/or data management)
    • 5+ years internal client relationship management experience
    • 2+ years database design or database modeling experience
    • Experience in the telecommunications industry, or two other consumer-based industries
  • Skills:
    • Background with Cable systems and operations
    • Experience with Hadoop, particularly HIVE, Spark,PySpark and Scala
    • Working knowledge of scripting, analysis and ETL, basics of command line interfaces, statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms.
    • Experience with SQL
    • Familiarity with the open-source ecosystems surrounding R and Python (PyPi) 

SPECTRUM CONNECTS YOU TO MORE

  • Innovative Tools & Tech: Work with high-performing software and applications on the forefront of the digital telecommunications industry.
  • Dynamic Growth: The growth of our industry and evolving technology will power your career as you move up or around the company.
  • Supportive Teams: Who you are matters here. And, we aim to foster an inclusive workplace where every person is empowered to bring their best ideas.
  • Total Rewards:See all the ways we invest in you—at work and in life

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This job posting will remain open until 2025-08-21 09:06 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.

The base pay for this position generally is between $138,800.00 and $246,400.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.

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