Jobs at 2U

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Technical

• Help to ensure that the integrity of the business domain products are maintained.
• Follow and contribute to best practices when completing work.
• Implement and maintain enterprise architecture.
• 20% of capacity needs to be dedicated to refactoring or maintenance.
• Research and recommend technology to meet business requirements.
• Define structure of new modules.
• Actively mentor and explain programming concepts to junior members.

People

• Work with team members to provide story points for upcoming work.
• Provide technical guidance and feedback to junior members.
• Provide peer feedback to the engineering team lead.
• Work with the engineering lead to help grow junior team members.
• Participate in technical interviews.

Management

• Communicate progress effectively with team members and business stakeholders.
• Make sure best practices are followed by team members.
• Work with juniors to break up tasks into smaller pieces.
• Drive solutions when maintenance issues arise.

Business

• Work with business to clarify and define requirements.
• Provide business domain knowledge to help drive decision making by business.
• Understand the roadmap and how current work relates to the strategic goals.
• Contribute to developing product strategy.
• Effectively communicate technological limitations to business.

Personal

• Live the company's values.
• Actively look for opportunities to improve.
• Drive self-improvement.
• Make sure team members don't get left behind.

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• ± 3 Years web development experience.
• A degree in a software development related field.
• Object orientated experience.
• Good understanding of PHP, as well as front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and RESTful API.
• Good understanding of MySQL, Relational Database design and writing SQL queries.
• Linux command-line and Git experience.
• Familiar with continuous integration.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Experience in Moodle framework (beneficial, not required)

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role:

Working Conditions

• The candidate may be required to work after hours and be on support, if needed.
• High stress fast paced environment.

Management Responsibilities

• Personal time management is important.
• Ensure that administrative tasks, e.g. CapEx tracking sheet and Jira tickets, are updated in a timely manner.

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The purpose of this role is to serve as an analytics specialist in the business, focusing on advanced data mining, statistical analysis and modeling of data to create solutions that enable enhanced business performance through data-driven insights. Will serve as the Academic product portfolio data science lead and in doing so ensures that roadmap and architecture consider data needs. Actively seeks opportunities to leverage Data Science to enhance product.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Technical 

• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Use machine learning tools and statistical techniques to produce solutions to business problems
• Use machine learning tools and statistical techniques to produce solutions to business problems
• Cleansing and verifying the integrity of data and enhancing data sources where necessary
• Ensure code is thoroughly tested
• Ensure best practices are followed
• Performs ad-hoc data mining and exploratory analysis 
• Analysis of data in order to provide data-driven insights 
• Visualize data insights and communicate findings

People 

• Support, mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid level Data Analysts
• Coach analysts and scientists through complex issues
• Provide feedback on technical performance
• Manage team member’s career paths
• Ensure team members have a work-life balance
• Protect team members’ time
• Coach team through complex issues
• Oversee the team’s day-to operations
• Support, supervise & line manage direct line reports
• Monitor & drive excellent performance
• Communicate clear instructions to team members
• Motivate team members

 Management 

• Drive sprint planning
• Ensure that analysts have the resources they require to do their best work
• Manage leave of team members

Business

• Collaborate with the data leads and stakeholders to understand the data requirements in order to provide them with support 
• Work with business to create solutions that enable enhanced business performance through data-driven insights
• Help guide business when making technical decisions
• Manage ambiguity around tasks
• Ensure that roadmap and architecture consider data needs

Personal

• Perform research and constantly stays on top of the industry’s trends
• Actively look for opportunities to improve through stretch assignments and continuous learning
• Adhere to internal Agile methodology

Things That Should Be In Your Background: 

• ± 5 - 7 years in the Data industry
• 1+ year’s experience in supervising people and giving guidance to more junior employees
• Specific qualifications or technical skills 
• A Bachelor's degree (Stats, Engineering, Business Science preferred)
• Experience in data analysis and business intelligence
• Proficiency in SQL
• Proficiency in R or Python
• Experience working in statistics
• Experience in building machine learning models
• Additional required skills
• Good Problem Solving Skills
• Analytical, strategic and logical thinker
• Time management, discipline, accountability, self-motivation and eagerness to learn
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audience
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate to data solutions
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Ability to collaborate effectively and work as part of a team as well as on your own
• Attention to Detail
• Curious and eager to learn
• Enjoy working in agile, fast paced environment
• Comfort with ambiguity, ready to solve complex problems
• Self aware and humble, ask for help/give help
• Resilience 
• Empathize with end users and stakeholders