Analytic Consulting - Consultant I (Predictive/Decision Modeling/Data Mining/Credit Scoring)

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

“As part of our team, you will work closely with our clients on customized projects to design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art, data-driven predictive models to solve business problems using the latest technologies in data mining, statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and performance inference.”– VP, Analytic Consulting.

What You’ll Contribute

• Design and develop state-of-the-art, data-driven exploratory analysis as well as predictive and decision models to solve business problems across the financial services industry.
• Build and evaluate predictive and decision models to be deployed in production systems, or for research. This includes the analysis of large amounts of historical data, determining suitability for modeling, data clean-up and filtering, pattern identification and variable creation, selection of sampling criteria and performance definition, and variable selection, and experiments with different types of algorithms and models, analyzing performance, to identify the best algorithms to employ.
• Set priorities and manage projects of small to medium scope; identify roadblocks and work to resolve them.
• Review project variances against deliverables; negotiate necessary changes without committing to the impossible and engage in direct dialogue with client to achieve agreement on project outcomes.
• Adapt to changing environments, resources, and project demands.
• Establish appropriate model report format for communication with clients.
• Participate in pre-sales support and/or provide post-implementation support, which may require travel.
• Create, review, and deliver formal presentations of work to clients.
• Participate in authoring white papers, proposals and publications.
   

What We’re Seeking

• BS degree in a statistics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics, operations research field (MS preferred).
• Related experience (school project or industry) in predictive modeling and data mining is preferred with proficiency in analytic tools.
• Experience analyzing data in order to draw conclusions about data integrity, accuracy, and general relationships.
• Experience with facilitating and giving presentations.
• Ability to anticipate, investigate and analyze database and data processing problems to pinpoint cause of problems and recommend possible solutions.
• Ability to use object-oriented languages such as Java/C++ and/or scripting languages such as Python/Perl to manipulate data for purposes of model development is a plus.
• Additional experience in R and/or SAS would be beneficial.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
• The targeted base pay range for this role is: $96,000 to $132,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
   

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Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’