Data Scientist -Lewisville, TX Texas

Company: Digital Technology Solutions
Location: Lewisville
Posted on: September 16, 2023

Job Description:

DTS is looking for Data Scientist for a long term contract with our direct client Position in Lewisville, TX



The Job Itself

This role is quantitative in nature and requires the individual highly capable of interrogating and analyzing massive account-level data using Snowflake SQL, Python. Skills for other programming, data mining tools such as SAS, R are preferred. He or she will join the data science team under consumer asset management, with the responsibility to support collection strategy optimization and predictive analytics for consumer risk management. Daily work involves all phases of data science projects, including account-level data processing and validation, exploratory analysis for hypothesis testing and variable screening, communication and presentation to executive leadership team. This senior data scientist must be an innovative and strategic thinker, willing to challenge status quo, can learn quickly, is self-motivated and detail oriented.



Key Responsibilities include:

Support complex business optimization projects via predictive analytics (e.g., customer segmentation, clustering) for asset portfolio management; Independently prepare and analyze large, account-level consumer data from internal and external sources to identify customer behavior and strong risk indicators for consumer
Support the implementation of collection treatment optimization solution (what delinquent customers should receive which collection treatments by when)
Ability to think strategically, use sound judgement, and balance short and long-term risk decisions; Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to work effectively across multiple team
Understanding of risk management concepts and key performance drivers within consumer lending portfolios; Perform ad-hoc analysis, prepare crisp summary, and deliver recommendation
Managing projects of various size/complexity and day-to-day tasks independently in fast paced environment; Mentor junior members in the team



The Skills You Bring

3-5 years financial risk analytics, data science and/or predictive modeling work experience
Bachelor's Degree Preferred in Quantitative/Technical Discipline (Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science/Analytics, Economics)
Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience working with large, consumer account-level datasets using SQL (ideally Snowflake) and Python programming
Good knowledge of statistics and data mining (e.g., Correlation, Regression, Decision Tree segmentation), and programming skills with exploratory data analysis using Python. Knowledge of R or SAS are preferred.
Solid written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively present data analytics results to internal and external stakeholders
Highly self-motivated, with the ability to work effectively in fast paced environment

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in loan-level predictive data mining for consumer finance industry
Experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques using Python or other statistical programming packages such as R, SAS, Matlab
Master's degree in a quantitative field



DTS offers excellent compensation package.

Contact:
Kanika Narula
Digital Technology Solutions
248-243-6084

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