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Oportun1 month ago

Senior Data Scientist (R14015)

Remote · India or IN

Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Masters Degree
Company size
Medium
Industry
Fintech Platform

Job Summary

Senior Data Scientist to join a mission-driven finance team, focusing on broadening financial inclusion by building and deploying machine learning models using non-traditional data to score risk and support fraud, collections, and portfolio management. You will develop data products and ML models, create automated model monitoring, build end-to-end data pipelines, and collaborate with Compliance, Bank Partners, and Model Risk Management on governance and validations.

Required Qualifications

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or Economics or other quantitative discipline (Bachelor’s degree with significant relevant experience will be considered)
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with data extraction, cleaning, analysis and building reusable data pipelines; Proficient in SQL, Spark SQL and/or Hive
  • 3+ years of experience in leveraging modern machine learning toolset and programming languages such as Python
  • Hands on experience leveraging machine learning techniques such as Gradient Boosting, Logistic Regression and Neural Network to solve real world problems
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Strong stakeholder management and project management skills
  • Experience working with AWS EMR, Sage-maker or other cloud-based platforms is a plus
  • Experience with HDFS, Hive, Shell script and other big data tools is a plus
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