Data Scientist - short-term contract

Capstone Integrated Solutions is a comprehensive services provider. Our team consists of outstanding professionals, highly experienced in designing, building, and supporting retail software. We see ourselves as a build-as-a-service provider who follows a repeatable business pattern that can be applied to a variety of platforms and verticals. Having a culture built on outcomes and delivery at the core of the business, Capstone is providing its customers with a complete suite of services for software development, system analysis, integration, implementation, and support, as well as the option to engage a single team to perform all the services they require.  

Who You Are and What You'll Do:  

Capstone Integrated Solutions is looking for a highly motivated and talented Data Scientist. In this role you will support hands-on analysis, data preparation, validation, and feature exploration to enable accurate predictive modeling. This is an execution-focused role ideal for someone who enjoys working closely with large datasets, uncovering patterns, and collaborating with senior data science leadership.

  

Responsibilities:  

• Support data validation across historical and newly ingested datasets.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and feature relevance.
• Assist with data preparation, cleansing, and transformation for modeling.
• Collaborate with the Senior Data Scientist on feature understanding and engineering.
• Evaluate data across multiple data zones to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Help refine predictive outputs to improve demand and pricing forecasts.
• Document findings, assumptions, and validation results throughout the PoC.

Qualifications:  

• Professional experience as a Data Scientist or Applied Data Analyst.
• Strong background in data preparation, validation, and exploratory data analysis (EDA).
• Experience working with historical time-series or pricing/demand datasets.
• Proficiency with Python and common data science libraries (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, etc.).
• Ability to collaborate effectively with senior technical leads and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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