Data Scientist

Role: Data Engineer / Data Scientist

Duration: Long-term contract

Location: Iselin, NJ or Charlotte, NC – 3 days onsite in a week.

10-14 years of experience

• Create and maintain data flow design and technical requirements documentation using defined documentation templates that meets Agile product development standards (such as data analysis or methodology, MS Excel calculations).
• Understanding business objectives and developing models that help to achieve them, along with metrics to track their progress.
• Demonstrating the results of various algorithmic approaches and evaluating their performance
• Leverage a broad set of modern technologies - including Python, R, Scala, and Spark — to analyze and gain insights within large data sets and implement systems for automatic data collection, curation and model training
• Analyze diverse sources of data, extract features from data sources, train and test models, and Productionalize the models that significantly improve business outcomes.
• Works closely with Data Scientists and Data Engineers to develop predictive algorithms
• Training models and tuning their hyperparameters.
• Collaborate with other team members, subject matter experts, and delivery teams to deliver strategic advanced analytic based solutions from design to deployment
• Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant industry standards, best practices, business processes and technology used in modeling and within the financial services industry
• Manage own work with minimal oversight and proactively communicate status and risks to leadership.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years overall experience with 1-3 years in an ESG(Environmental, social and governance) technology focused role within asset management or financial services industry.
• Proficiency with Python and basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas.
• Experience with machine learning tools such as scikit-learn, R, Theano, TensorFlow, SparkML. or Foundry
• Experience in using two or more of the following modeling types to solve business problems: classification, regression, time series, clustering, text analytics, survival, association, optimization, reinforcement learning.
• Understanding of data models, large datasets, business/technical requirements. Bl tools, statistical programming languages and libraries
• Demonstrates functional knowledge of data visualization libraries such as matplotlib or ggplot2; knowledge of other visualization tools such as Microsoft Power Quick Sight or Tableau .
• Knowledge of cloud & computing technologies such as: Hadoop, Apache Spark, AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google cloud.
• Bachelor's or Masters degree in computer science; Data science, statistics, mathematics, or a related field

Job Type: Contract

Salary: Up to $80.00 per hour

Experience:

• Python: 1 year (Preferred)
• SQL: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: On the road

Salary : $80