Senior Data Scientist

Base Salary: $150k- $190k

Company summary:

Teragonia, a robustly capitalized startup with a well-established clientele, is dedicated to transforming the financial sponsor universe through cutting-edge data science and AI solutions. Our mission is to reimagine how financial sponsors execute their investment thesis, from sourcing to exit, and maximize value to all stakeholders (financial sponsors comprise private equity firms, venture capitalists, family funds, and sovereign wealth funds). We seek to accomplish this mission through an industry-aligned operating model that optimally blends business domain knowledge, technology, and quantitative techniques.

Our core offerings include: (i) business intelligence applications, (ii) enterprise solutions that provide data science and operations research-driven insights to business users, and (iii) data science consulting.

Teragonia offers a comprehensive career development platform through cross-learning within our multidisciplinary structure. We nurture a diverse, inclusive, collaborative, respectful, and collegial environment. Our competitive compensation package aligns with industry leaders, encompassing 401k contribution matching, medical insurance, and additional benefits.

Division summary:

Teragonia’s Data Science and Operations Research (DS&OR) consulting division centers around the financial sponsor industry, given the important role the industry plays in fostering innovation and improving operating efficiency in the economy, while providing access to substantial private capital to startups and middle market companies. We specialize in leveraging innovative statistical, optimization, and AI/ML models to solve business problems and generate transformative business value.

We champion the professional growth and development of our team members, offering focused education, diverse professional experiences, and mentorship. We understand the importance of balancing between professional advancement and personal pursuits. Our team fosters a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

Job summary:

We are particularly interested in candidates who operate with integrity, intellectual humility, and a long-term career commitment. The ideal candidate for this role will have a solid foundation in data science, mathematical modeling, and programming. You should have the ability to extract, summarize and articulate meaningful business insights to our financial sponsor clients. As a Senior Data Scientist at Teragonia, you will be a significant contributor to our service delivery, innovation, business development, practice development, and thought leadership. You will have the opportunity, and the management support, to develop specialized knowledge of data science and AI applications in a chosen industry or domain.

Service delivery-technical skills:

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will work closely with our team that understands the client’s business needs and provide them with data-driven solutions. You will use statistical, operations research, and machine learning techniques to analyze data and develop predictive models while understanding the business context. The ideal candidate will have excellent attention to detailand the ability to work effectively as part of our diverse multidisciplinary team of business analysts, software engineers, financial engineers, and operations researchers.

You will be passionate about learning the business applications of data science to enable revenue growth and cost optimization for our clients. You will develop and utilize expertise in technical research and review of existing solutions and literature relevant to the problem at hand.

As a Senior Data Scientist you should be able to write clean code efficiently, to develop advanced models. You will receive appropriate mentoring and have access to company selected resources and training programs to further develop your coding skills.

Transforming low-hygiene data sets to develop organized databases with high fidelity is a necessary part of the job. As such, you will gain expertise in data wrangling skills. You will develop deep knowledge of the software tools used for service delivery, including data manipulation and data visualization software to efficiently and effectively complete the assigned tasks.

Service delivery - engagement and client management:

You will be working on multiple client engagements simultaneously, or a large and complex engagement, and the scope of the engagement could evolve based on changing client needs. The financial sponsor universe demands actionable insights in a relatively short period. As such, the engagement duration typically lasts a few weeks relative to longer-duration projects at large global corporations. The ideal