Our Company
All candidates should make sure to read the following job description and information carefully before applying.
Home Partners of America, A Blackstone Portfolio Company, is an owner and operator of high-quality, single-family, residential homes.
Our mission is to help more people get into great homes, in the neighborhoods they love, while preserving the opportunity to build a more secure financial future.
This commitment to making homeownership a reality is made possible through a unique business model that leverages data and analytic capabilities on Home Partners’ technology-enabled operating platform.
We are a dynamic organization poised for growth and expansion into the future and are looking to hire passionate and energetic employees.
Your Role
The Data Scientist Junior Associate will help with production data and systems used in HPA’s most critical business intelligence and data analytics tasks, with the opportunity to engage with the production process from beginning to end.
Projects will center on working with large datasets around real estate, credit underwriting, consumer behavior and property-level information, such as maintenance spend and rental payment tendencies, to create forecasts and models.
Other projects will include further development of existing algorithms and models for determining rent pricing strategies, home values, portfolio analysis and management, risk modeling of consumers, and other data analytics exercises as required.
The Junior Associate can expect to be writing code and scripting on a daily basis using Python, Jupyter notebooks working cross-functionally with the Data Engineers and Software Developers on the team as well as gaining exposure to data management, data storage, and data visualization techniques.
The Junior Associate will also be expected to write production codes and deploy models on top of a cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS on an as-needed basis.
The Junior Associate will be expected to do some manual work and ad hoc tasks to supplement and help out the senior members on the team.
They are expected to bring energy and enthusiasm as they learn more about both how the real estate market works as well as develop their technical skills.
ON YOUR RESUME, PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING :
- Clear and concise description of one or more data / machine learning-related projects : (It can be school projects, Kaggle competitions, or real work experience)
- What statistical methods / algorithms were used for the business problems
- Information about the dataset (e.g. data size) used in the project / experience
- What tools or languages were used (e.g. Python, SQL, AWS, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Assist in working through strategies for cleansing data.
- Develop financial and technical models for reporting and business intelligence tasks.
- Work hands-on with large sets of data to help develop new applications, databases and data structures.
- Demonstrated ability to manage working on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Execute on deliverables and meet deadlines.
- Conduct research and analysis at the direction of Senior Management and the Analytics Team.
- Communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences, including Analytics leadership and both internal and external stakeholders.
- Perform ad hoc requests in line with business priorities.
Requirements
- Undergraduate or master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or commensurate technical experience.
- 0-2 years of experience in a technical role or analytics role (software development, data science, etc.).
- At least 1-year of experience in writing production-level code in Python. Experience in other programming languages such as R, Spark, Julia, etc. is a plus.
- Demonstrated strong conceptual and hands-on knowledge in the domain of Probability Theory and Statistics.
- Demonstrated conceptual and hands-on working knowledge of machine learning algorithms.
- Demonstrated ability to think critically, ask pointed questions, and formulate solutions to problems in a clear, concise, and timely manner.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP is a plus.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, work under pressure, work independently and meet deadlines.
Home Partners of America and Pathlight Property Management are Equal Opportunity Employers and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.
All employment decisions including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, or sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, veteran or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations in which we operate.
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