2025 AARC Senior Data Science Analyst

At Discover, you will never stop learning. We are looking for people driven by purpose, who want to help us change the game in financial services. We were founded in 1986, and now have over 16,000 employees. Together we are dedicated to helping people spend smarter, manage debt better and save more for a brighter financial future. 

By joining us, you will be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. We are as focused on our employees as we are on our customers – and we have been consistently awarded for both. Be the reason we help millions of people build a brighter financial future, and achieve yours along the way.

Job Description:

Discover's Analytics Development Program at the AARC is designed to accelerate learning and career development of participants. Our goal is to enable passionate, motivated, curious, and solutions-oriented professionals and give them the training, resources, skills, and experiences to create value for the business while advancing their careers.

Participants can expect to:

• Work alongside experienced technical managers and contribute to challenging and meaningful assignments across Discover, ranging from consumer banking, credit risk management, Anti-Money Launder/Bank Secrecy Act, fraud mitigation, customer service, etc.
• Participate in a structured learning curriculum and training to increase development and impact
• Develop cross-functional industry and market knowledge, along with technical and leadership skills
• Receive ongoing feedback and coaching from project leads, performance managers, and a dedicated program management team
• Engage with other participants as a cohort to expand knowledge sharing, collaboration, and professional network
• Explore various career pathways in analytics, modeling, and data engineering
• Move to a post-program position within 12-24 months 

What You’ll Do

• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Develops advanced analytics solutions including customer segmentation, optimization, test and design of experiments and prescriptive analytics to solve business problems.
• Operates as a subject matter expert on statistical analysis, test and design of experiment, analysis methodology, modeling and application, and financial impact analysis.

• Collaborates with cross-functional partners to understand their business needs, formulated and completed end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering, analysis, ongoing scaled deliverables and presentations.

• Delivers effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of leadership, creating visual displays of quantitative information.

• Establishes and maintains effective performance tracking; identify improvement opportunity, form hypothesis, propose, design and implement tests to drive strategy enhancement and optimization.

• Manages multiple priorities, communicate business performance and project progress to management and business partners.

• Develops and automates reports, iteratively build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale, solving for analytical needs.

• Facilitates implementation of work product and ensure accuracy.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Must have a Masters degree in Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.

• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

• Ability to communicate verbally.

• Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• A graduation date between Aug 2022-Aug 2025

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