Job Description:
This role is remote-friendly.
Responsibilities for a Data Scientist:
- You will work with a financial services client on risk and anti-money laundering analytics.
- You will design and develop transaction monitoring scenarios.
- You will improve segmentation for the scenarios/models using techniques such as clustering.
- You will execute periodic tuning for the threshold parameters of the scenarios through sample collection.
- You will develop post processing models to reduce the number of false positives generated by the scenarios using techniques such as rare event logistic regression and machine learning algorithms.
- You will develop post processing models that incorporate Natural Language Processing techniques to reduce the number of false positives.
- You will implement models.
- You will develop and execute ongoing monitoring plan to monitor the performance of the models.
- You will document of the model development, especially the implementation process.
- You will support model validation activities.
- Ad hoc analysis to address requests from partners.
- You will report to Senior Director, Analytics.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, AND six (6) years related experience.
- Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, AND four (4) years related experience.
- OR PhD degree in Statistics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, AND two (2) years related experience.
- Anti-money laundering related data science/ML experience in the Banking domain.
- High proficiency with Python, R, SAS, and SQL.
- Advanced data sourcing and management skills.
- Enhanced experience with web scraping.
- Knowledge and experience with CDSW (Cloudera Data Science Platform) platform.
- Experience with software development, especially deployment.
- Experience with classification models.
The anticipated salary range for this position is $94,000-$152,375. Salary is based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.
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Location:
New York
Brand:
Ugam
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent
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