Job Description:

This role is remote-friendly.

Responsibilities for a Data Scientist:

• You will work with a financial services client on risk and anti-money laundering analytics.

• You will design and develop transaction monitoring scenarios.

• You will improve segmentation for the scenarios/models using techniques such as clustering.

• You will execute periodic tuning for the threshold parameters of the scenarios through sample collection.

• You will develop post processing models to reduce the number of false positives generated by the scenarios using techniques such as rare event logistic regression and machine learning algorithms.

• You will develop post processing models that incorporate Natural Language Processing techniques to reduce the number of false positives.

• You will implement models.

• You will develop and execute ongoing monitoring plan to monitor the performance of the models.

• You will document of the model development, especially the implementation process.

• You will support model validation activities.

• Ad hoc analysis to address requests from partners.

• You will report to Senior Director, Analytics.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, AND six (6) years related experience.

• Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, AND four (4) years related experience.

• OR PhD degree in Statistics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, AND two (2) years related experience.

• Anti-money laundering related data science/ML experience in the Banking domain.

• High proficiency with Python, R, SAS, and SQL.

• Advanced data sourcing and management skills.

• Enhanced experience with web scraping.

• Knowledge and experience with CDSW (Cloudera Data Science Platform) platform.

• Experience with software development, especially deployment.

• Experience with classification models.

The anticipated salary range for this position is $94,000-$152,375. Salary is based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

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