Data Scientist - Draper, United States - SSI People

Description

Professional Experience/Background to be successful in this role:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in risk analytics, data analysis, or data science within the Fintech or online payments industry.
• Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Mining or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience using statistics and data science to solve complex business problems.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, Excel including key data science libraries.
• Experience working with large datasets.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex results to technical experts, business partners, and executives including development of dashboards and visualizations, ie Tableau.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and yet able to steer analytics projects toward clear business goals, testable hypotheses, and action-oriented outcomes.
• Demonstrated analytical thinking through data-driven decisions, as well as the technical know-how, and ability to work with your team to make a big impact.
• Desirable to have experience or aptitude solving problems related to risk using data science and analytics.

Bonus:

• Experience with AWS, payment rule systems, and knowledge of credit products.