Data Scientist II (US)

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:

$76,128 - $124,800 USD

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Line of Business:

Analytics, Insights, & Artificial Intelligence

Job Description:

Department Overview:

We are seeking a skilled Data Scientist in our Financial Crime Risk Modeling & Advanced Analytics team. In this role, you will be responsible for financial crime risk model validation and monitoring.

Job Description:

The Data Scientist II is responsible for collecting data and using wide range of data science techniques, including but not limited to data wrangling, profiling and visualization, statistical inference, to uncover actionable insights or build analytics solutions that guide decision making and strategic planning.

Depth & Scope:

• Works autonomously within a specialized business management function and may provide work direction to others
• Provides seasoned specialized knowledge, advice and/or guidance to various stakeholders and team members
• Scope of role may have enterprise impact
• Focuses on short to medium - term issues (e.g. 6-12 months)
• Undertakes and completes a variety of complex projects and initiatives requiring specialist knowledge and/or the integration of cross functional processes within own area of expertise
• Oversees and/or independently performs tasks from end-to-end

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree or advanced technical degree preferred (e.g., math, physics, engineering, finance or computer science) Graduate's degree preferred with either progressive project work experience, or;
• 3+ year of relevant experience; higher degree education and research tenure can be counted

Preferred Skills:

• Hands-on experience in modeling, model validation, or advanced data analytics with strong coding skills in Python and SQL.
• Knowledge of the AML domain is a plus, along with experience in SAS coding and Transaction Monitoring
• In lieu of an Undergraduate degree and 3+ years of relevant experience, we will consider a Graduate's Degree and 1+ years of relevant experience

Customer Accountabilities:

• Understands business context and data infrastructure and translates business problems to viable data science solutions
• Uses a wide range of programing languages (e.g. Python) and techniques for extracting and preparing data, applying statistics and various advanced analytics, along with business acumen to extract insights from the big data
• Visualizes insights from the data to tell and illustrate stories that clearly convey the meaning of results to decision-makers and stakeholders at every level of technical understanding
• Collaborates with other partners, such as data and business analysts, software engineers, data engineers, and application developers to develop scalable and sustainable data science solutions that retains long term benefit to the business

Shareholder Accountabilities:

• Solicits and offers ideas for improving business processes through insights with the objective of improving effectiveness and efficiency
• Educates the organization on approaches, such as testing hypotheses and statistical validation of result
• Helps the organization understand the principles and the math behind the scientist process to drive organizational alignment
• Translates up to date information into continuous improvement activities that enhance performance
• Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for our business area
• Ensures respective programs/policies/practices are well m