Position: Junior Data Scientist
Company: AppReal
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

Our customer is the leading provider of AI-based Big Data analytics.

They are dedicated to helping financial organizations combat financial crimes through money laundering facilitating malicious crimes such as terrorist financing, narco trafficking, and human trafficking which negatively impact the global economy.

Their Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Intuitive AI solutions enable clients to manage risk, detect money laundering schemes, uncover operational issues, and reveal valuable new growth opportunities.

We are looking for a Data Scientist for customer-facing projects that combine data science with deep knowledge and understanding of machine learning and big data technologies to create solutions for customers’ challenges and needs, defining and developing appropriate technical and business solutions.

The Data Scientist will work closely with Product Management, Algorithm, Engineering, and Customer Success teams and lead external partners to successful implementations of the platform and solutions.

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver successful deployment and Pilots
- Manage and design the Customer-specific technical solution throughout the project life cycle
- Technical leadership of Data Science & Engineering aspects and team members including partners
- Work on various data sources and apply sophisticated feature engineering capabilities
- Bring and use business knowledge
- Extract insights and actionable recommendations from large volumes of data and Investigate anomalies in Big Data
- Build and manage technical relationships with customers and partners
- Provide product requirements input to the Product Management team
- Train the customers on the system – system usage and monitoring aspects
- Travel to customer locations both domestically and abroad

Responsibilities

- 1+ years of experience as a data scientist/data engineer/big-data developer
- BSc or equivalent in Mathematics, Statistics, ComputerScience, Economics, or another related field
- Must have proven professional experience in data analytics for financial services with strong forensic skills
- Must have Hands-on experience and knowledge of scripting languages: Python/PySpark as well as DS workflow management.
- Spoken English

Advantage

- Experience working Financial customers
- Working experience with Linux OS

Core Competencies

- Able to solve tech problems for customers; improvise; cope with unexpected challenges
- Able to drive relevant internal functions to deliver/solve problems for customers/partners
- A motivated, self-starter who can demonstrate high analytical and technical skills
- Ability to design creative solutions for complex requirements
- Ability to learn and lead projects independently, and to work with minimal supervision of customers (tech & business)
- Strong interpersonal relationship building
- Ability to execute multiple projects and drive key business results under tight deadlines