Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Exciting opportunity to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact in an enterprise environment.

Candidates will collaborate with some of the best talents in the industry to create and implement innovative, high-quality solutions focused on our customers' needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Work with various stakeholders such as Business Consultants, Senior Statisticians, Product Management, and Clients on the formulation and application of new modeling solutions for a variety of industry problems
• Manipulate large data sets, integrate diverse data sources, data types and data structures into solutions
• Develop analytical approaches to meet business requirements; this involves translating requests into use cases, test cases, preparation of training data sets and iterative algorithm development
• Research new and advanced predictive modeling techniques as appropriate for a specific solution
• Present results and recommendations to internal and external customers
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop ideas and execute business plans
• Develop solution prototypes and help integrate them with the product
• Work closely with software development teams to communicate requirements and ensure quality of end-to-end deliverables of developed analytical solutions
• Contribute to the team knowledge by keeping up with the state-of-the-art in machine learning applied to our domain

This is a 6 month contract opportunity with a leading global organization based in Alpharetta, GA! This is a fully remote position - however resources needs to reside in GA, local to Atlanta / Alpharetta if possible.

Successful candidates have a high level of initiative and thrive in a fast paced, enterprise environment.

Visionaire Partners offers all full-time W2 contractors a comprehensive benefits package for the contractor, their spouses / domestic partners, and dependents.

Options include 401k with up to 4% match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident coverage, and both Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.

REQUIRED SKILLS :

• 4+ years of professional experience as a data scientist or statistical modeler in at least one of the following : identity and fraud, credit risk, telecommunications, financial services, payment, ecommerce, B2B or B2C, marketing, insurance, or security analytics arena.
• 4+ years working with Python and SQL.
• Experience with state of the art machine learning algorithms such as deep neural networks,support vector machines, boosting algorithms, random forest etc.
• Experience conducting advanced feature engineering and data dimension reduction in Big Data environment
• Active cloud certification

PREFERRED SKILLS :

• Professional experience as a data scientist or statistical modeler in identity and fraud, credit risk, telecommunications, financial services, payment, ecommerce, B2B or B2C, marketing, insurance, or security analytics arena
• Strong SQL skills in Big Data environment (Hive / Impala etc.)
• Proficient with any programming languages such as Python , Java, Scala
• Experience working with very large datasets, knowledge of distributed computing tools (Hadoop Streaming, MapReduce, Spark)
• Exposure to Visualization tools such as Tableau
• Extensive knowledge in fraud prevention methods and detection tools
• Strong knowledge of credit bureau data and business problems in financial services and / or telecommunications
9 days ago