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  • ID
    #17812968
  • Job type
    Contract
  • Salary
    $65.00 - $70.00 per hour
  • Source
    Mantek Solutions Inc
  • Date
    2021-08-03
  • Deadline
    2021-10-02

Data Scientist

California, Irvine, 92616 Irvine USA
 
Contract

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#6491

Seeking a Data Scientist for a 6 month contract with the possibility of extensions. Please note this position requires the successful completion of a background check, drug screen, and employment and education verification prior to starting work.

Seeking a Data Scientist to join global AI product support team. This scientist will report to Senior Director of Global Data Science Products. Will play a critical role in the rollout of global suite of AI products across consumer lending, business intelligence services and health product suite.

This role will cover a wide range of responsibilities with plenty of variation from week to week.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Product development

  • Prototype new modeling methodologies for incorporation into global suite
  • Work directly with ML engineering team to identify issues and guide them on requirements
  • Write data pipelines / ETL for non-standard or new modeling use cases
  • Build new dashboards and reports to provide insights to clients on model performance and impact, leveraging proprietary BI toolkit
  • Help document methodologies, tool usage and business logic

Client & user support

  • Support implementation teams executing complex modeling tasks on enterprise ML ops platform
  • Perform complex/custom data engineering where needed to support strategic clients
  • Train ML models for underwriting, targeting and other applications where needed

Testing & QA

  • Test new product features and algorithms and verify accurate implementation ahead of live release to global client base
  • Implement bug-fixes and upgrades to methodologies in credit-related business logic (e.g., Bureau Inferencing modifications etc.)

Valuable skills include

  • Highly proficient writing data processing code with at least one SQL dialect
  • Spark SQL experience desirable but not required
  • Comfortable using Python and Jupyter notebooks with common open source libraries for machine learning
  • MLlib, pytorch, sklearn, tensorflow all valuable
  • Understanding of credit risk modeling fundamentals
  • Strong communication skills - able to talk to business users to understand and articulate issues requirements, as well as more technical developer audiences
  • Strong data visualization skills - can present datasets to bring out insights & tell a story
  • Self-starter willing to solve problems and ask the right questions, growth mindset
  • Desirable: Familiarity with widely-used credit risk assessment tools like FICO Model Builder and SAS
  • Desirable: Understanding of the credit risk lifecycle from prospecting and acquisition to customer management and collections

What your background looks like

  • Experience in modeling and/or data engineering in a Credit Risk institution. You will have worked at least 3 - 5 years for a major bank, FinTech or other financial institution.
  • At least 5 - 7 years total industry experience focused on analytics, data science and/or data engineering, with some direct experience in applied statistics and machine learning
  • Advanced degrees in quantitative fields and/or professional experience in applied analytics are valuable
  • Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred
W2 Only No Corp to Corp No Sponsorship No third party candidates considered for this position Remote in a preferred area - U.S.A.

If you are interested in this position and feel you are qualified, please apply to JO# 6491 along with a copy of your updated resume

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