Data Scientist II - Remote

Overview

The Data Scientist II will provide innovative solutions to achieve various business goals by analyzing and interpreting data.

In Short

• Assure the integrity of project data, including data extraction, storage, manipulation, processing, and analysis.
• Analyze data with standard statistical methods, interpret the results, and provide both written and verbal summaries and recommendations.
• Produce solutions that will impact the Company’s bottom line within different aspects of the company, including but not limited to: Partnerships, marketing, sales, pricing, credit, and risk.

Requirements

• 1+ years of work experience in the Financial Services industry focused on business analytics.
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Experience with A/B testing and/or building predictive models using statistical/machine learning techniques (e.g. CART, logistic regression, linear regression, random forest, XGBoost etc.).
• Intellectual curiosity and aptitude to pick up new technical skills and domain knowledge.
• Strong written and verbal communications.
• Master’s degree in Data Science, Analytics Math, Physics, Engineering or related quantitative fields.


Nice to Have:
• Experience in consumer lending.
• Experience with lending marketplaces (e.g. Credit Karma, Credible, etc.).
• Proficiency with PowerBI.