Data Scientist Senior

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. seeks a Data Scientist Senior in Pittsburgh, PA with the ability to work from home with appropriate telecommuting systems for up to two days per week, with a minimum of three days per week in the office. Within the Retail Lending Credit & Operational Intelligence department, the position will be responsible for performing analytical tasks on vast amounts of structured and unstructured data to extract actionable business insights. Specific duties include: (i) performing quantitative financial analysis using statistics, exploratory data analysis, machine learning models and time series analysis to enhance credit risk management and operational efficiency; (ii) engaging in gathering, processing, and mining of large and complex quantitative financial datasets persisted in Hadoop and cloud datastores; (iii) building automated data workflows to consolidate and summarize data for weekly/monthly reporting to recommend optimal actions to management; (iv) developing quantitative algorithms using advanced mathematical and statistical techniques like machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing to drive decision making at PNC; (v) running quantitative financial analytical experiments in a methodical manner to find opportunities for product and process optimization; (vi) assisting in the presentation of business insights to management using visualization technologies and data storytelling; and (vii) partnering with Data Architects, Data Engineers, and Visualization Experts to develop data-driven quantitative financial solutions for the business.

Master’s degree in Analytics, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or Information Systems Management plus 3 years of experience in data querying with SQL and programming in Python for developing applications for a large organization (>10,000 employees) is required. Must have experience with: (i) handling, manipulation and analysis of large datasets (multiple gigabytes of data) persisted on Hadoop, Neo4j and cloud data platforms; (ii) using statistical analysis techniques including logistic regression, time series analysis, and hypothesis testing; (iii) utilizing data query tools including SQL, R, and Python to manipulate, analyze and interpret data; (iv) writing and implementing code to clean and transform large tabular and text datasets (typically exceeding 1 million rows of data) to a consistent format usable in data visualization and developing machine learning models; (v) enriching in-house data by integrating with external data sources (Bureau and third party vendor data) to extract and analyze trends for risk management; (vi) designing rich data visualizations to communicate complex ideas to customers or company leaders; (vii) programmatically extracting data from a Hadoop database and transforming the data into a presentable form using Python plotting libraries (Matplotlib and Seaborn) and Tableau visualizations; and (viii) building machine learning models to drive business insights and improve financial outcomes.

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