Nelnet is looking for a talented Data Scientist to help drive our businesses forward. The Data Science team represents a niche division of our Analytics department tasked with solving our most complex quantitative, statistical, and data-oriented problems. This role will use a powerful blend of business acumen, analytics, mathematics, programming, and modeling to provide strategic recommendations, insights, and products across a diverse set of business areas and industries.   Functional projects typically include deep-dive operational and financial analyses, data wrangling and processing, programmatic automation, and predictive modeling. Our data scientist roles operate with wide-latitude and are often asked to tackle complicated questions that require creative solutions; candidates should be highly inquisitive, self-motivated, strong communicators, and have the ability to map out solutions with a starting point and end goal, but few steps identified in-between.   By supporting teams that span the entire organization, we operate in a fun, fast-paced, and engaging environment that brings new and unique challenges every day.   This position requires work in support of the Company’s contract with the United States Department of Education (“ED”). As such, the United States Government requires that any applicant for this position must complete United States Government security clearance. Effective June 1, 2018, ED has informed Nelnet that security clearance applications for foreign nationals are not being accepted or processed. In light of this direction from ED, Nelnet will be unable to hire applicants without United States citizenship for such positions.  

Leads, directs, manages, plans, and administers the operational and administrative activities of a department or product segment.

Reasons to work for Allo Communications as a Voice Engineer: - Become a member of a fast growing fiber optics VoIP telecommunications service provider with an exciting future. - Maintain cutting edge voice core and access network equipment in a highly available virtualized environment. - Utilize advanced troubleshooting skills and methodologies to resolve complex network issues. - Learn new telecommunications technologies. - Contribute to the network design, future direction and growth of Allo. As a Network Engineer (Voice Emphasis) you will be a key part of the team for creating and maintaining the Allo Communications fiber access networks. Your responsibilities will include network design, access-network capacity planning, platform management and maintenance, as well as serving as an escalation point for significant network events. You will have demonstrated skills in the design and operation of fiber optics VoIP telecommunications networks in a virtualized environment. Your skills will also be called on by the network test teams who will ask you to review their test plans prior to release. You will act as an escalation point for high severity network issues, combining excellent troubleshooting, communication, and network management skills, to expedite problem resolution and act as a key point of contact between internal groups, vendors, and network peers. You will learn quickly and adapt to changes. You will maintain a high sense of urgency while staying cool under pressure.

Nelnet as a company is focused on educational services including loan servicing, payment processing, education planning, and asset management. Headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, with other offices around the United States, we employ more than 6500 associates who serve customers throughout the education life cycle. Nelnet is a rapidly growing company looking to expand our diverse team of Infrastructure Engineers.    As a member of the Infrastructure Engineering team, you’ll help design and implement solutions across business units and technology stacks. Ideally we are looking for a candidate near our offices around Lincoln, NE, Madison, WI, and Highlands Ranch, CO, but remote candidates would be considered.   A day in the life of an Infrastructure Engineer team member is quite varied, we’re responsible for a wide array of functions within the company.  We go beyond just designing and implementing solutions, we’re often involved in complex troubleshooting across business units and technology stacks.  We strive to reduce unplanned work by improving daily tasks, while leveraging automation, testing, and configuration management.  Nelnet is open to new ideas, toolsets, methods, etc.  With this, we welcome creative approaches to complex problems.    This position requires work in support of the Company’s contract with the United States Department of Education (“ED”).  As such, the United States Government requires that any applicant for this position must complete United States Government security clearance.  Effective June 1, 2018, ED has informed Nelnet that security clearance applications for foreign nationals are not being accepted or processed.  In light of this direction from ED, Nelnet will be unable to hire applicants without United States citizenship for such positions.

The IT Senior Software Engineer is responsible for designing and developing software solutions.