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Sr. Data Scientist at Avance Consulting in Memphis, TN

ExperiencedOn-siteMemphis, TN

Skills

pythonrsqlhivesparktableauweb scrapingtext matchingmachine learninglinear regressionlogistic regressionclusteringclassificationpcanaive bayesassociation rulescollaborative filteringrecommendation techniquestime series modelingoptimizationhadoopimpalamahoutspark sqlmllibhbaseverbal communicationwritten communicationresearch skillshypothesis developmentexperimentationccarbaselmodel risk managementfixed incomeequitiesderivativesfxcash equitiesqlickviewexcelscala

Job Description

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I have a job opportunity related to your profile with one of our client, please find below Job Description for your review. If you are interested and available for the following position then please send your updated resume in word format along with your contact details to discuss further.

Role: Sr. Data ScientistDuration: Full Time / PermanentLocation: Memphis, TNRequired Skills:

Overall Responsibilities:

Senior data scientist.

Research various analytical approaches Recommend and develop mathematical algorithms for related business problems Communicate and direct development teams on implementation of statistical models Interface with Business users and gather feedback on delivered analytical data. Deploy solutions on to big data platforms

Functional Responsibilities:

Specific tasks include but are not limited to:

Work on one of following initiatives within Predictive Client Analytics group: RFM recommendations, CCAR and other projects TBD Validation of analytical approaches produced by vendor and 3rd party consulting teams Developing data validation methods

Required Skills:

Technical / Analytical Skills:

Excellent understanding and experience with application of machine learning concepts and techniques (linear/logistic regression, clustering, classification, PCA, Naive Bayes, association rules, Collaborative Filtering, recommendation techniques etc.) Experience with regression techniques for modeling the relationship between an output variable and several input variables Experience with Big Data technologies Experience with visualization tools like Tableau Experience creating interface specification documents, attribute mapping documents, functional specifications Experience with web scraping Experience with Text Matching applications

Nice to have:

Understanding of regulatory guidelines (CCAR, Basel) around Model Risk Management Working knowledge of various Fixed Income and Equities products, for example Derivatives, FX and Cash Equities

Essential Skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills Strong research skills Python, R, SQL, Hive, Spark Statistical analysis: To understand and work around possible limitations in models Being able to develop hypothesis and test the Hypothesis with careful experiments Research and implement data mining machine learning algorithms in supervised and unsupervised learning areas Should have experience with time series modeling Should have experience with optimization approaches Familiarity with the Big Data Ecosystem tools: Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Mahout, Spark(Spark SQL, MLLib),Hbase and be comfortable with the using the tools Strong experience in data manipulation using SQL on Hive/Impala or other Databases Experience in developing and deploying model with Mahout, Spark MLLib is preferable. Must be proficient in programming either R/Python/Scala. Should have experience in Financial services industry -Capital market would be preferable Should have exposure to Data Visualization tools: Tableu(Preferable)/Qlickview/Excel

Additional Information

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