Hybrid Senior Data Scientist

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About the role

  • Senior Data Scientist developing data-driven insights for USAA's Life Company partners. Leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance business growth.

Responsibilities

  • Gathers, interprets, and manipulates structured and unstructured data to enable advanced analytical solutions for the business.
  • Develops scalable, automated solutions using machine learning, simulation, and optimization to deliver business insights and business value.
  • Selects the appropriate modeling technique and/or technology with consideration to data limitations, application, and business needs.
  • Develops and deploys models within the Model Development Control (MDC) and Model Risk Management (MRM) framework.
  • Composes, and assists peers with composing, technical documents for knowledge persistence, risk management, and technical review audiences.
  • Assesses business needs to propose/recommend analytical and modeling projects to add business value.
  • Works with business and analytics leaders to prioritize analytics and modeling problems/research efforts.
  • Builds and maintains a robust library of reusable, production-quality algorithms and supporting code, to ensure model development and research efforts are visible and based on the highest quality data.
  • Translates complex business request(s) into specific analytical questions, completes the analysis and/or modeling, and then communicates outcomes to non-technical business colleagues with focus on business action and recommendations.
  • Handles project landmarks, risks, and impediments.
  • Calls out potential issues that could limit project success or implementation.
  • Develops standard methodologies for engaging with Data Engineering and IT to deploy production-ready analytical assets consistent with modeling procedures and model risk management standards.
  • Maintains expertise and awareness of pioneering techniques.
  • Actively seeks opportunities and materials to learn new techniques, technologies, and methodologies.
  • Serves as a mentor to junior data scientists in modeling, analytics, and computer science tasks.
  • Participates in internal communities that drive the maintenance and transformation of data science technologies and culture.
  • Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics, economics, finance, actuarial sciences, science and engineering, or other similar quantitative field; OR 4 years of experience in statistics, mathematics, quantitative analytics, or related experience may be substituted in lieu of degree
  • 6 years of experience in predictive analytics or data analysis OR Advanced Degree (e.g., Master’s, PhD) in mathematics, computer science, statistics, economics, finance, actuarial sciences, science and engineering, or other similar quantitative field and 4 years of experience in predictive analytics or data analysis
  • 4 years of experience in training and validating statistical, physical, machine learning, and other advanced analytics models
  • 4 years of experience in one or more dynamic scripted language (such as Python, R, etc.) for performing statistical analyses and/or building and scoring AI/ML models
  • Validated experience writing code that is easy to follow, well documented, and commented where necessary to explain logic (high code visibility)
  • Strong experience in querying and preprocessing data from structured and/or unstructured databases using query languages such as SQL, HQL, NoSQL, etc.
  • Strong experience in working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data files such as delimited numeric data files, JSON/XML files, and/or text documents, images, etc.
  • Demonstrated skill in performing ad-hoc analytics using descriptive, diagnostic, and inferential statistics
  • Ability to assess and articulate regulatory implications and expectations of distinct modeling efforts
  • Advanced experience with the concepts and technologies associated with classical supervised modeling for prediction such as linear/logistic regression, discriminant analysis, support vector machines, decision trees, forest models, etc.
  • Advanced experience with the concepts and technologies associated with unsupervised modeling such as k-means clustering, hierarchical/agglomerative clustering, neighbors’ algorithms, DBSCAN, etc.
  • Experience guiding and mentoring junior technical staff in business interactions and model building
  • Experience communicating analytical and modeling results to non-technical business partners with emphasis on business recommendations and actionable applications of results.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
  • 401(k)
  • Pension
  • Life insurance
  • Parental benefits
  • Adoption assistance
  • Paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
  • Various wellness programs
  • Career path planning and continuing education assistance

Job title

Senior Data Scientist

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$143,320 - $273,930 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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