Expert Technical Specialist

Expert Technical Specialist

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Expert Technical Specialist to join our Client's team.

This role will take a forward-looking approach driving innovation and identifying emerging opportunities for Dataiku and advanced analytics adoption across the enterprise. The individual will focus on developing the long-term roadmap, assessing new technologies, and shaping strategic direction to enable Delta Dentals data-driven transformation.

This role is critical to advancing enterprise-wide analytics at Delta Dental. The Expert Technical Specialist will partner closely with data architecture, data engineering, and business analytics teams to identify and implement machine learning (ML) use cases that address real-world business challenges.

The position sits within Delta Dentals Data & Analytics Center of Excellence, which is responsible for executing the companys Enterprise Data & Analytics strategy fostering a data-driven culture, governing data assets, and enabling impactful business insights.

Key Responsibilities :

• Leverage deep expertise in Dataiku (and Azure ML) to support business data scientists in defining, developing, tuning, and deploying ML models.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to data scientists and development teams on ML best practices from ideation to deployment.
• Serve as an Advanced Analytics Product Owner : identify and prioritize new ML use cases, track progress and risks, and coordinate resolution efforts.
• Drive thought leadership on Advanced Analytics governance, including ethical and legal guidelines.
• Build, validate, and implement predictive models in support of strategic initiatives or AI / ML proof-of-concepts; clearly present findings to stakeholders.
• Analyze current data-related processes and lead process improvement initiatives.

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Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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