Sr. Data Scientist

• Role : Sr. Data Scientist
• Location : Scottsdale AZ (onsite)

Data Scientist JD:

• • Experienced data science, engineering, mathematics, or related work experience is required.
• • Experience developing data science pipelines & workflows in Python, R or equivalent programming language. Experience in writing and tuning SQL. Experience handling terabyte size datasets
• • Experience applying various machine learning techniques, and understanding the key parameters that affect their performance
• • Experience using ML libraries, such as scikit-learn, mllib, etc.
• • Experience using data visualization tools
• • Able to write production level code, which is well-written and explainable
• • Interest to do lots and lots of proof of concepts/rapid prototyping
• • Ability to effectively communicate findings from complex analyses to non-technical audiences.

• Essential Functions
• • Explore and aggregate data independently to uncover data anomalies that impact algorithm performance
• • End to end feature engineering - brainstorm, create, validate, down-select, etc.
• • Write production level code in a dynamic, start-up environment
• • Solve complex problems using terabyte size data sets
• • Apply of a variety of machine learning techniques to a business problem to arrive at optimal approach
• • Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
• • Explain and visualize results and algorithm performance to non-technical audiences
• • Support the company's commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Preferred Qualifications
• • Pyspark experience
• • Building fraud and/or risk models
• • Knowledge of advanced ML algorithms
• • Industry experience in machine learning
• • Experience exploring data and finding hidden patterns