Junior Data Scientist

Job description

The Opportunity at Hand

This company, a software engineering and data science company with interests in the financial services and insurance verticals, is currently recruiting a Jr Data Scientist to join the Data Science and Decision Management Team.

In this role, you'll be tasked with mining and analyzing data, developing and deploying machine

learning models, visualizing and interpreting data, developing cost/benefit analysis, generating new products and/or business ideas, and distilling complex conclusions to actionable insights.

Who We're Looking For

An ideal candidate for this role should possess the following:

• 2 - 4 years of related experience in an analytical role

• A minimum of 2 years work experience with MySQL, MariaDB, or other RDBMS

• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and individually

• Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently

• Highly demonstrative entrepreneurial spirit with a will to win

Highly qualified candidates will possess any combination of the following:

• Demonstrative superior command of ANSI SQL, ideally the MySQL dialect

• Well documented experience with predictive modeling projects

• Working proficiency with the command line and/or GitLab

• Exposure to either Java or Python programming languages

• Prior experience in banking/financial services/risk management

• Prior experience generating and measuring data-related experiments

What's In It For Us

Your skillset will help our business grow and reduce risk by:

• Developing machine learning models to evaluate application risk and profitability

• Developing self-service analytical tools to provide insight into the business

• Performing complex analytical projects to identify trends or items of interest

• Resolving ad-hoc requests to ensure the business is running smoothly

• Suggesting opportunities of enhancement through technology or process

What's In It For You

In addition to a wonderful work life balance and pleasant place to work, you will receive:

• A competitive salary commensurate with experience

• 90% of Individual and 75% family health insurance premiums subsidized

• Access to a 401K with contribution matching

• A generous vacation policy with all federal holidays off

• A fully stocked kitchen subsidized by the company

• Company wide social events in addition to departmental events

• The ability to learn and grow within the fintech industry