Data Scientist - Credit Strategies On behalf of our client in the Banking Sector, Procom is looking for a Data Scientist - Credit Strategies
Data Scientist - Credit Strategies– Job Description
- The role is primarily responsible for feature engineering and strategy migration for Personal Lending strategies to support a major system migration
- Use advanced data tools to perform explorative data analysis, feature selection and feature engineering for credit strategy usage
- Develop deep knowledge in Personal Lending Acquisition and Account Management Credit strategies
- Support a major system migration and corresponding work on feature development, strategy assessment, developing and testing using Python and Teradata SQL
- Assess all variables used in the existing strategies
- Derive and engineer features to be used in strategy development
- Simulate and assess all strategy outcomes using the new variables
- Redesign and enhance current strategies using new features
- Document new features and strategy outcomes if any
- Communicate and socialize the changes with internal teams such as product, collection
- Collaborate with Implementation team closely to implement variables into production environment
- Conduct pre-production testing and post implementation verification
Data Scientist - Credit Strategies– Mandatory Skills
- Proficient Science and Data Engineer knowledge using SQL, Python, SAS
- Knowledge and experience working with Teradata, Data Lake, Amazon S3, and big data processing tools
- Business Knowledge into Retail financing products and Retail Credit Risk
- 3+ years of experience performing data science or data engineer. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong learning capability and project management skills
- Strong statistical or mathematics background. Undergraduate degree in Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative fields of study
Data Scientist - Credit Strategies– Preferred Skills
- Experience working with PySpark
- Prior experience in Personal Financing products
- Prior experience developing risk, pricing and/or profitability models
Data Scientist - Credit Strategies– Assignment Start Date ASAP – 15 months to start
Data Scientist - Credit Strategies– Assignment Location Toronto, ON – Work Hybrid