Data Scientist

Job#: 2040843

Job Description:

* If you are interested in applying for this role, please email your resumes to Maddie Watt at [email protected] *

Job Title: Data Scientist with Graph Database experience
Location: 100% Remote
Client Type: Financial Services
Duration: 1 year – Contract to hire
Rate: $45-65/hr. (based on experience)
Job Description:
Our client has a specialized need for a Data/Decision Scientist with prior Graph Database experience. The Data Scientist will join the Data Science Delivery group that specializes in identifying fraud and loss within the corporation. The team has a large inventory of internal and vendor models which require ongoing testing, maintenance, and documentation updates to meet model risk regulations and corporate compliance.
Day to day responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders and business partners throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging enterprise data to drive business solutions.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Integration of data elements from disparate systems to uncover insights.
• Independently converts business management questions and into analyzable problems and provide solutions.
• Clean, preprocess and transform raw data into structured format suitable for analysis and machine learning models.
• Design, implement and evaluate advanced statistical models to solve wide array of challenging problems.
• Ensure selected algorithms/modeling techniques are appropriate and aligned with desired project outcome.
• Anticipates potential issues that could limit projects success or implementation and escalates as needed.
• Build machine learning models for various problems inclusive of regression, classification, clustering, pattern analysis, forecasting and simulations.
• Translate complex analytical and technical concepts to non-technical audience to enable understanding and drive informed business decisions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Analytics, Information Science or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in data/decision science
• Graph database experience
• Data modeling, data analytics, and machine learning
• SQL, Python, Snowflake, Tableau, Databricks etc.
• Understanding of digital channel technologies (e.g., HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript), information architecture and wire framing

• Banking/fraud background

• Knowledge of Confluence and Jira
• Knowledge of Agile technical software delivery methodologies
• Knowledge and demonstrated use of process engineering methodologies
• Familiar with concepts related to human centered design or high-tech anthropology
• Experience in design research activities including planning, moderation, analysis and synthesis, and communication of findings

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