Oportun | Jobs | Senior Data Scientist | BigDataKB.com | 04-02-22

05/04/2022

Job Location: Chennai

Roles and Responsibilities

Develop risk, profitability, fraud,and loss mitigation models used to provide affordable credit to serve those who are mis-scored by traditional credit bureaus, nearly half of Oportuns customers do not have a valid FICO score
Discover insights from a myriad of data sources to understand and influence consumer financial behavior
Build data pipelines to prepare data for rapid learning in a scalable manner
Design and build machine learning and data infrastructure by partnering with data and production engineering teams
Develop new complex features to be used to build next generation of machine learning models by combining techniques and business acumen
Partner with production engineering team to deploy models, strategies, verification methods
Communicate and partner with third party data vendors

Desired Candidate Profile

Masters degree or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or Economics or other quantitative discipline (Bachelors’ degree with significant relevant experience will be considered)
5+ years of coding experience using machine learning toolset within Python, SQL, Spark, SAS and/or Scala; 5+ years of experience leveraging machine learning techniques such as Gradient Boosting, Logistic Regression, and Decision Trees, among others
5+ years of experience in working on risk based marketing and digital analytics; Preferably in financial services industry
5+ years of experience hands-on experiences with data extraction, cleaning, analysis and visualization; experience with non-structural data is a plus
Excellent written and oral communication skills
A relentless problem solver, out of the box thinker, and proven track record to drive business results in a timely manner
Experience working with AWS or other cloud-based platforms
Experience with HDFS, Hive, Shell script and other big data tools
Comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced, agile environment