Lead Data Scientist - BFSI

Key Responsibilities :

- Using data science in various facets of SME lending, including (but not restricted to) credit scorecards & portfolio monitoring frameworks, business insights, campaign management, propensity, and pricing

- Data mining or extracting usable data from valuable data sources

- Using machine learning tools to select features, create and optimize classifiers

- Carrying out pre processing of structured and unstructured data

- Enhancing data collection procedures to include all relevant information for developing analytic systems

- Processing, cleansing, and validating the integrity of data to be used for analysis

- Analysing large amounts of information to find patterns and solutions

- Developing prediction systems and machine learning algorithms

- Presenting results in a clear manner

- Propose solutions and strategies to tackle business challenges

- Collaborate with Business and IT teams

Skills required

- Should have knowledge of statistical programming languages like R, Python, and database query languages like SQL, Hive, Pig is desirable

- Good applied statistical skills, including knowledge of statistical tests, distributions, regression, maximum likelihood estimators, etc. Proficiency in statistics is essential for data-driven companies

- Proficiency in handling imperfections in data

- Hands-on experience with data science tools

- Experience with Data Visualization Tools like matplotlib, ggplot, d3.js., Tableau that help to visually encode data