Data Scientist Senior

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title:  Data Scientist Senior

Location:  Buffalo, NY

Hire Type:  Contingent

Pay Range: $65.00/hour

Work Type:  Full-time

Work Model:  Onsite

Work Schedule:  Monday – Friday, 8am – 4:30pm

Recruiter Contact: Sean Pebbles | View phone number on us.fitly.work | View email address on us.fitly.work

Nature & Scope:

Positional Overview

The Imagine Group is recruiting for a  Data Scientist Senior  on behalf of our client, a leading financial institution in  Buffalo, New York , serving individuals, businesses, and communities across the eastern United States. Known for its strong regional presence, commitment to community engagement, and focus on long-term customer relationships, the organization offers a stable and collaborative work environment with opportunities for growth.

In this role, you will be responsible for developing complex methods, processes, and systems to consolidate and analyze diverse big data sources to generate insights and solutions for business partners and product enhancement. Works with more experienced data scientists to develop new research approaches.

Role & Responsibility:

Tasks That Will Lead to Your Success

 

• Work with large and complex data sets to solve unstructured problems using different analytical and statistical approaches for multiple products independently.
• Lead sourcing, ingesting, and cleaning of data sets in preparation for analysis, and assist more experienced data scientists to productionize and scale data cleanup process. Ensure data is stable, accounting for complex data drift in development and production.
• Build complex econometric, statistical and machine learning models for various problems inclusive of classification, clustering, pattern analysis, sampling, and simulations.
• Commit complex code into model repository and promote complex models into production system.
• Develop champion/challenger models and adjust models accordingly.
• Implement framework for building self-healing models.
• Select and refine models, taking into account performance, reliability and stability metrics and business feedback.
• Draft model refinement educational materials for data users.
• Create model outputs for business discussions to display model outcomes, impact and business value.
• Lead less experienced team members in creating consumable model outputs. Attend stakeholder meetings to discuss concerns, opportunities and production challenges.
• Work with more experienced data scientists to develop new research approaches and provide initial assessment of how techniques will be adapted based on client needs.
• Review code to ensure it is efficient, accurate, and using best practices.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the brand.
• Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Skills & Experience

Qualifications That Will Help You Thrive

 

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years related experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years higher education and/ or work experience, including a minimum of 5 years related experience.
• Experience working with multiple statistics and data science principles such as AB testing, sample selection, hypothesis testing, and modeling bias
• Proficiency with pertinent statistical software and languages and tools
• Experience with various hybrid databases both on premise and in the cloud
• Intermediate level knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) and Not Only Structured Query
• Language (nSQL)
• Intermediate understanding of modeling techniques such as Bayesian Modeling, Classification models,
• Cluster analysis, Neural Network, Non-parametric methods, and Multivariate statisticsm
• Experience analyzing large data sets
• Data Visualizations using Tableau and Power BI
• Alteryx
• Data ETL using SQL, python

Education and Experience Preferred

• Masters of Science or Doctorate degree in Statistics, Economics, Finance or related field in the quantitative social, physical or engineering sciences, with proven coursework proficiency in statistics, econometrics, economics, computer science, finance or risk management
• Fluent in econometric/statistical techniques, including time-series analysis, panel data methods and logistic regression
• Tactical experience with pertinent statistical software and languages and tools