Data Scientist - Reston, United States - Sony Electronics

Sony Electronics

Verified Company

Reston, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S.

businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth.

Position Summary
Sony is seeking a Data Scientist, Risk Analytics to join Sony's Corporate Information Security Division. This position will report to the Senior Manager of Risk Analytics and be a part of the team responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a Global Information Security Risk Analytics platform used to provide information security risk intelligence to Senior Leadership and monitor the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Sony assets.
Job Responsibilities Develop a comprehensive knowledge of the business to derive data science project requirements. Gather information, business goals, priorities, and organizational context around the questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models. Design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent. Format, restructure, and/or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis. Analyze large amounts of data/information to discover and articulate trends and patterns. Build predictive models and machinelearning algorithms. Develop conclusive insights using statistical methods. Make and defend arguments using data and databased insight. Explain solutions in a nontechnical manner. Mentor other team members. QUALIFICATIONS FOR POSITION Your qualifications and experience should include:

Minimum 3 years of applied work experience in data science.

Handson experience analyzing and mining large datasets. Proficiency with relational database (SQL), programming/scripting (Python or R), and statistics. Good experience with applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc. Knowledge of machine learning Ability to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems. Motivated and selfdirected, demonstrated ability to innovate. Ability to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and nontechnical audiences. Experience in information security or IT preferred. Experience with data engineering. Experience with data visualization tool and dashboard development. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we offer an environment and culture that promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We are committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for you to thrive as part of Sony's purpose to "fill the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology".

Benefits:

SCA offers benefitseligible employees (generally regular employees scheduled to work 20 or more hours a week) a comprehensive benefits program that offers coverage and support for employees and their family's physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing

What we offer you:
Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage with coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents, including access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits Fertility benefits, including surrogacy, and adoption assistance programs Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance Shortterm & longterm disability plans Paid parental and caregiver leave 401(k) Plan with pretax, Roth, and aftertax options and company match with immediate vesting Education assistance and student loan programs

Other Programs:

Time off to include vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, Summer Fridays (early release), and a winter break between Christmas and New Year's Day (based on business needs) Matching gift program
A wide variety of employee business resource groups (EBRGs)
Special discounts on Sony products, offered exclusively to Sony employees
Employee stock purchase plan (Sony covers commissions and fees for your Sony stock purchases made through aftertax payroll deductions)
Annual incentive bonus
The _anticipated_ annual base salary for this position is $150,000 to $165,000. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an indiv