Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Immediate need for a talented Data Scientist with experience in the Banking and Financial Industry. This is a 12+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Plano, TX.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business partners to analyze and understand business problem/need.
• Leverage thorough understanding of business and system processes to make recommendations and propose technical/non-technical solutions to meet business requirements.
• Collaborate with business partners to define project objectives and scope.
• Document current state business process ("as – is" process map) and future state business process ("to-be" process map).
• Assist in data modeling and analysis to determine key customer insights, drive business strategies, and maximize ROI.
• This position will provide customer insight to the organization through analysis, research, modeling and data mining.
• Provide analytical support to the organization by leveraging data mining tools and analytical methodologies.
• Integrate internal and external data sources.
• Assist in advanced quantitative methods to segment customers and evaluate customer related activities for effectiveness and efficiency.
• Assist in development, maintenance and enhancement of statistical models.
• Use statistical tools and techniques to extract and analyze trends from the customer database warehouse.
• Manage analytics projects.
• Prepare and deliver presentations.
• Experience in deep dive analysis and applying analytic techniques to customer/consumer behavior data to determine key customer insights, drive business strategies and maximize ROI
• Conduct multi-channel deep dive analysis for online and offline contexts using mobile phone/tablet/PC/offline browsing and purchase data.
• Going forward, assist in development and analysis of Real-Time data flows.
• Customer Service Center.
• Marketing.
• Compliance.
• 12 + months.
• Ongoing Support.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 2-5 years' experience in a data scientist or data analytics role.
• 2-5 of experience hands on BSA experience - Interviewing stakeholders, gathering requirements, presenting to the business.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Hands on experience using SQL, Business Objects, Oracle and other query tools on large databases
• Knowledge of at least one statistical programming language (R, SAS, and/or Python)
• Strong quantitative skills.
• Experience in applying advanced statistical or machine learning techniques.
• Knowledge of dashboard and reporting software (Tableau, OBIEE, etc.)
• Understanding of relational databases.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (Statistics, Applied Mathematics, etc.) or enough on the job use of related skills.
• Masters/PhD degree is a plus.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Exceptional standards for quality and strong attention to detail
• Knowledge of at least one programming language for API's (python, java, etc.)
• Experience working with API's and integrating external data sources.
• Additional knowledge in NOSQL databases (Hadoop) and real time frameworks (kafka, kinesis, flume, etc.), and AWS.
• Financial Services experience.

Our client is a leading Banking and Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.