Lead - Data Scientist - Banking Domain - IIT/NIT/BITS

Job Description

We are looking for a Data Scientist that will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of Banking data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high-quality prediction systems integrated with our products. You should be able to - automate scoring using machine learning techniques-, - build recommendation systems-, - improve and extend the features used by our existing classifier-, - develop internal A/B testing procedures-, - build system for automated fraud detection-, etc.

Responsibilities :

- Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques

- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods

- Extending company's data to third-party sources of information when needed

- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems

- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis

- Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner

- Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance

Skills and Qualifications :

- Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.

- Experience with common data science toolkits, such as Python(Mandatory), NumPy, {{depending on specific project requirements}}. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable

- Great communication skills

- Experience with data visualization tools, such as D3.js, ggplot, Tableau etc.

- Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL(preferable), Hive, Pig

- Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.

- Good scripting and programming skills (Python Scripting)

- Data-oriented personality

- May work hand in hand with Python/R as per requirement of the business

- Bachelor in Technology from Top Engineering Colleges(IITs, IIM, NITs BITS and other Tier Colleges.) with Minimum 3-6 yrs. of Experience

Key Skills Mandatory:

Python, NLP, Text Mining, Team leading experience.