Lead Data Science Analyst

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

*** Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position.  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. ***

As a Lead Data Science Analyst with Discover, you will be responsible for working closely with management to execute analytical initiatives. This can include solving business problem by leveraging techniques such as segmentation, optimization, advanced analytics and machine learning. You will also create reports and dashboards to closely monitor performance metrics and provide insights. 

Responsibilities 

·       Leads the development and implementation of advanced analytics including customer segmentation, optimization, prescriptive analytics and machine learning algorithm & recommendation to solve business problems. Operates as a subject matter expert on statistical analysis, test and design of experiment, analysis methodology, modeling & application, and financial impact analysis. 

·       Collaborates with cross-functional partners to understand their business needs, formulate and complete 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, proposes, designs and implements tests to drive strategy enhancement and optimization. 

·       Manages multiple priorities, communicate business performance and project progress to management & 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. 

·       Consistently follows standard work processes and documentation requirements. Recommends improvement to work processes to increase efficiency while maintaining quality of work. 

·       Continuously improves technical and leadership skills through training and development. 

Minimum Qualifications 

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: 

·       Bachelor's Degree in Analytics, Engineering, or Statistics 

·       4+ years of experience in Credit Risk, Fraud Risk, Marketing Analytics, Optimization, Operations Analytics, Modeling/Data Science or related. 

Preferred Qualifications 

If we had our say, we’d also look for: 

·       Master's Degree in Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics or Statistics 

·       2+ years of experience in Credit Risk, Fraud Risk, Marketing Analytics, Optimization, Operations Analytics, Modeling/Data Science or related 

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