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# Data Scientist 3

- **Company:** Choice Hotels International, Inc.
- **Location:** Rockville, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Franchise
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Amazon Web Services, Artificial Neural Networks, JIRA, Data Infrastructure, Machine Learning, NumPy, Software Tools, Spatial Data Infrastructures, SQL Databases, Data Ingestion, IT Architecture, Git, Pandas, Data Delivery, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-BAE81DB3F1A1FF3163/

## About the Role

* Master's Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or another quantitative field.
 * 2+ years of analytical experience is required with a background in spatial modeling. Examples include spatial clustering, spatial regression, and spatial autocorrelation.
 * Knowledge of AWS environment and AWS Sagemaker preferred.
 * Experience with basic data engineering tools (eg pandas, geopandas, numpy, and SQL).
 * Experience with basic version control (eg Git, BitBucker) and project management tools (eg Jira).
 * Experience with Machine Learning approaches and techniques such as decision trees, neural networks, and collaborate filtering is a plus.
 * Must be an energized self-starter who can work independently and who drives for results.
 * Ability to evaluate business trends and develop successful solutions that enhance business performance.
 * Effectively partner with business stakeholders to ensure integrated and timely insights to the enterprise.
 * Has strong intellectual curiosity.
 * Active learner - able to enhance personal, professional, and business growth through new knowledge and experiences; pushes the organization to learn from other industries' standards and practices.
 * Results oriented; delivers results under difficult conditions and demonstrates balanced judgment under pressure.
 * Good communication skills - includes oral (one on one and presentations to large audiences) and written.

## Description

Are you passionate about building spatial models and spatial data? We invite you to apply today for our Data Scientist 3 role today and ., * Execute modeling initiatives that drive key decisions and insights across the enterprise. Work closely with stakeholders to address strategic and operational needs with spatial models such as:

 * Geographically based RevPAR and occupancy models
 * Hotel hot spot models
 * Point of Interest clustering models
 * Provide pre-processed spatial data to the department for modeling use.
 * Research cutting-edge methodologies and contribute to upskilling the overall team's capabilities. Ensure that the team is maturing its data science and analytics knowledge and understanding.
 * Work with IT architecture and data delivery team to enhance data infrastructure to support real-time, machine learning modeling capabilities, and deploy throughout Choice.
 * Support data ingestion efforts from third parties., This is an individual contributor role that will report to the Manager, Predictive Analytics and Data Science. You will have multiple peer teammates and collaborate with cross functional departments on a regular basis.