We are looking for Senior Data scientist to be part of our team. You will lead initiatives to build diverse set data products and mentor junior data scientists. Working in a fast-growing company, we are about to expand regionally thus there will be an exciting opportunity for high personal growth and unlimited access to lots of data to explore. Our ideal candidate is result-focused, innovative, has a solid quantitative background and a good business understanding.
Job Responsibilities:
- To lead and mentor team of Ds in a multi-disciplined team where you’ll take full ownership of turning discoveries and ideas into machine learning models
- Identify opportunity and conduct research development to improve efficiency & effectiveness of business process using ML model across fields — CS, underwriting, collection, marketing; by using our vast amount and unique set of data
- Actively contribute to taking Data Science at FinAccel to the next level
- Communicate the potential impact of — product data — to relevant stakeholders.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of industry experience in working at financial domain for a consumer-facing company
- Experience building robust end-to-end predictive models using the latest Machine Learning techniques and methodologies
- Proficiency in Python or R. Exposure to RDBMS (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and No-SQL platforms (i.e. S3)
- ·Proven communicator with technical teams, clients and senior stakeholders
Bonus points (optional) for:
- Experience with alternate data to evaluate credit risk
- Experience in building end-to-end Deep Learning and/or NLP models