Senior Data Scientist
Application Procedure:
Go to https://jobs.montana.edu/postings/50895 to apply!
Job Duties
- Prepare, manage, and support federal (e.g., IPEDS, FVT/GE), state, and other compliance reporting requirements.
- Extract data from Edify (institutional data warehouse), and Montana University System data systems, sources, and databases housed outside of the MUS (e.g. federal and state databases).
- Provide ad hoc and ongoing statistical and analytical support in collaboration with requester, UDA staff, and other university offices with minimal supervision.
- Develop original analytical projects and products for technical and non-technical end users through Edify .
- Identify and propose solutions to potential data, analytical, statistical, or other problems.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and appropriate use across analytical products, reports, and dashboards.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation for data pipelines, code, and analytical processes to support continuity and reproducibility.
- Build analytical capacity across campus by advising units on effective data use and interpretation.
- Lead projects involving other staff in and outside of UDA.
- Present research and findings to University leadership and other institutional constituents.
Job Qualifications
Required:
Preferred:
- Master’s degree in the social sciences, data science, mathematics/statistics, higher education, or a related field or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Three (3) or more years of work experience in an institutional research, analytics, or related functions.
- Advanced knowledge of research design and statistics.
- Demonstrated successful experience with data analysis tools and software (e.g. R, SPSS, SAS, Stata).
- Demonstrated successful experience with database management and querying (e.g. SQL, database management tools).
- Demonstrated experience effectively communicating data analysis in a professional setting.
Preferred:
- Demonstrated successful experience with reporting on IPEDS, FVT/GE, CDS or other higher education compliance reporting.
- Experience working in higher education analytics.
Institution Description
University Data & Analytics partners with stakeholders to transform data into information that advances MSU’s mission and impact. This mission is accomplished through five strategies: Consultation & Capacity Building, Institutional Effectiveness, Data Governance & Strategy, Analytics & Data Science, and Compliance & External Reporting.
Benefits
Benefits can be found on our HR website: https://choices.mus.edu/employees.html
Application Due Date: 2026-04-09
Job Start Date: 2026-05-18
Salary: Dependent on qualifications and experience.
City: Bozeman
State/Province/Region: MT
Institution: Montana State University
Reports To: Associate Chief Data Officer
Staff # Reporting to Position: 0
Reports In Office: University Data & Analytics
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