Data Scientist I
Charlotte, North Carolina;Plano, Texas; Richmond, Virginia; New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Chandler, Arizona; Chicago, Illinois; Tampa, Florida; Kennesaw, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; Newark, Delaware; Phoenix, Arizona
Job Description:
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Job Description:
This job is responsible for analyzing and interpreting large datasets to uncover potential revenue generation opportunities and develop effective risk management strategies. Key responsibilities include collaborating with key stakeholders to comprehend business problems, utilizing data gathering and analysis techniques to devise solutions, and presenting recommendations based on the findings. Job expectations include demonstrating flexibility, resilience, accountability, a disciplined approach, and a commitment to fostering responsible growth for the enterprise.
Responsibilities:
Performs business analytics, which includes data analysis, trend identification, and pattern recognition, using advanced techniques (e.g., machine learning, text mining, statistical analysis, etc.) to support decision-making and drive data-driven insights
Applies agile practices for project management, solution development, deployment, and maintenance
Creates and maintains technical documentation, capturing the business requirements and specifications related to the developed analytical solution and its implementation in production
Manages multiple priorities and maintains quality and timeliness of work deliverables such as quantitative models, data science products, data analysis reports, or data visualizations, while exhibiting the ability to work independently and in a team environment
Delivers engaging presentations and engages in both in-person and virtual conversations that effectively communicate technical concepts and analysis results to a diverse set of internal stakeholders, and develops professional relationships to foster collaboration on work deliverables
Mitigates risk by identifying potential issues and developing controls
Researches the latest advances in the fields of data science and artificial intelligence to support business analytics
Skills:
Adaptability
Attention to Detail
Business Analytics
Technical Documentation
Written Communications
Agile Practices
Application Development
Collaboration
Data Visualization
DevOps Practices
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Networking
Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
Presentation Skills
Risk Management
LOB Specific Information:
This job is responsible for supporting advanced analytics technical development and the pathway to optimality, scalability, and sustainability in close partnership with Bank of America Technology. This work closely integrates with business efforts to improve portfolio risk, profitability, performance forecasting, and operational performance for customer products and related divisions such as credit cards. Key responsibilities include applying knowledge of multiple business and technical-related topics and independently driving strategic improvements, large-scale projects, and initiatives. Job expectations include working with counterparts within the Line of Business, across the technology organization, and risk teams.
Client Protection Shared Services - Advanced Analytics is looking for a seasoned and energetic professional to join our team as a Data Scientist and help us deliver data science products to the production environment especially for scalable graph analytics. In this role, you will be expected to work on large and complex data science projects. Collaborating with internal strategy, technology, product, and policy partners to deploy advanced analytical solutions with the goal of reducing fraud losses, lowering false positive impacts, improving client experience, and ensuring the Bank minimizes its total cost of fraud.
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Responsibilities:
Some tasks that this role may be responsible for include (but are not limited to):
Manage a roadmap of data science use cases for technical development and implementation to the production environment in close partnership with Bank of America Technology
Manage relationships with multiple technology platform and development team leaders including alignment of roadmaps, managing projects, and managing risks
Engage business and technology senior leaders on reporting of project/deliverable statuses, opportunity identification, and planning efforts
Oversee development, delivery and quality assurance for data science use cases delivered to the production environment and other areas of the line of business
Perform complex analysis of financial models, market data, financial data, and portfolio trends to understand product performance and improve portfolio risk, profitability, performance forecasting, and operational performance
Coach and mentors peers to improve proficiency in a variety of systems and serves as a subject matter expert on multiple business and technical-related topics
Support execution of large scale projects, such as platform conversions or new project integrations by conducting advanced reporting and drawing analytics based insights
Link Analysis/Graph analytics to find and mitigate densely connected fraud networks
Develop and tune graph algorithms to maximize detection of fraud
Assist with the generation, prioritization, and investigation of fraud rings
Required Skills:
A minimum of 3 years of experience in data and analytics is required
Must be proficient with SQL and one of SAS, Python, or Java
Critical problem-solving skills including selection of data and analytical approach
Experience providing thought leadership, developing deliverables, and working with limited direction on complex problems to achieve project goals
Effective communication and influencing skills
Thrives in fast-paced and highly dynamic environment
Intellectual curiosity and strong urge to figure out the "whys" of a problem and come up with creative solutions
Experience handling data across its lifecycle in a variety of formats and storage technologies (e.g., structured, semi-structured, unstructured; graph; hadoop; kafka)
Experience with data analytics and/or technical development lifecycles
Desired Skills:
Advanced degree (Masters or Doctorate) preferably in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), business, or finance
5+ years of experience; work in financial services is very helpful, with preference to fraud, credit, cybersecurity, or other heavily quantitative areas
Experience in data engineering work including defining data requirements, designing and building pipelines (e.g., DDL, DML), quality testing, and post development evaluation
Understanding of data quality dimensions, performance of data quality assessments, and the build/maintenance of proactive monitoring of data across its lifecycle
Understanding of advanced analytics techniques, especially supervised and unsupervised machine learning development and maintenance, graph analytics development, and related statistical methods
Familiarity with data science tools such as H2O, Hadoop, TigerGraph, or similar advanced analytical tools
Experience engaging with cross-functional teams and in large multi-organization formal projects
Understanding of computer science topics like automation, code versioning, computational complexity, parallel processing, requirements gathering, testing methodologies, and development lifecycle models like Agile
Experience with administrative and compliance duties such as access management, technical documentation, change management, issue management, and risk reporting
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
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