Data Scientist

Data Scientist

STATUS: Open

LOCATION: Jersey City, NJ, United States

Requisition Details: As a Data Scientist, you will be solving some of the most complex problems with the most revolutionary analytical platform. Our applications, with your help, will fundamentally alter the way data is analyzed. Your technical and inquisitive aptitude will lead you to interesting datasets, but your creativity and initiative will help you find clarity with obscure information. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to perform exploration and experimentation to build prototypes and best practices for our applications. This position will bring insight and change how our customer's approach complex problems with analytics.

Responsibilities:

• Directly interact with customers in the Financial Services industry to understand and help solve their data problems
• Become a master user and advocate of client financial product
• Serve as a technical and subject matter expert in Financial Services information technology, assisting sales during pre- and post- sales efforts.
• Make scientific contributions while providing thought leadership in publications, peer-reviewed publications, speaking opportunities, presentations.
• Interact and collaborate with engineers and product managers, relaying feedback from customers to continually develop our product

Requirements:

* MS or PhD in quantitative field * 4+ years in a financial institute or related organization * Solid understanding of existing statistical and machine learning techniques. * Ability to translate analytic ideas into code using one or more of R, Java, Python, C/C++. * Familiarly with one or more data science toolkits such as Spark, Hadoop, scikit-learn and pandas.