Senior Data Scientist at OneFi

We are looking for a passionate, career driven Senior Data Scientist to join our team. This is a great opportunity to gain significant and substantial experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and implement methods for adaptive learning with associated controls of effectiveness, methods for explaining model decisions where necessary, model validation, as well as A/B testing of models.
• Creating predictive customer behavioral models using a multitude of data sources
• Experiment with in-house and external data sets to test feasibility on relevance and value of data to business problems
• Work with business stakeholders to aid with data driven business decisions
• Collaborate with engineering to implement predictive models in production environment
• Pro-actively drive availability of relevant data, tools, and infrastructure

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Information Systems or related engineering fields , with 5+ years experience in the relevant industry
• Practical experience with statistical learning techniques such as logistic regression, Naïve Bayes, SVM, decision trees, or neural networks.
• Financial services domain knowledge including expertise at the intersection of risk, finance and customer domains
• Strong technical background in Programming, Database Technology, Data Visualization and Big Data

Skill Sets

• Strong analytical skills with previous experience working with large and complex data sets.
• Result-oriented team player with exceptional motivation and interpersonal skills
• Expert in performing statistical analysis, data manipulation and modeling in R and/or Python.
• Proficient in reporting/visualization using any of the available tools in R, Python, Kibana, etc.
• Excellent skills in Apache Hadoop and related toolset (MapR, HDFS, YARN, Spark and/or Mlib)

Preferred

• AWS Toolchain experience, S3, RedShift, RDS, EMR, Machine Learning