Position: Data Scientist
Company: ELEKS
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

ELEKS Data Science Office is looking for Data Scientist in all our locations

** ABOUT CUSTOMER**
Our client is helping financial institutions worldwide grow assets efficiently with its innovative portfolio management suite of data management, investment accounting, and performance measurement solutions delivered over its secure private cloud.

Together we deploy trusted solutions and services that create operational efficiencies and help reduce complexity and risk. In addition to the cloud solutions, we are offering help to deliver enriched and ready-for-use investment data.

 
**KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

Getting insight into the business problem, understanding the opportunity and value of analytical models for the customer
Collecting, transforming, and preprocessing raw data to prepare it for analysis
Deriving descriptive statistics out of the preprocessed data
Building statistical and probabilistic models
Designing, developing, training, and testing data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence models and algorithms
Providing comparative research on different algorithms and models
Implementing the model in a form that can be easily used by engineers, documenting its interfaces
Delivering the model in a form that can be easily deployable and maintained

**SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE**

Advanced knowledge of optimization (linear/non-linear, dynamic optimization, lin/nonlin/dynamic programming)
Hands-on experience with Python
Strong understanding of how FinTech solutions and models can work
Understanding theoretical concepts of statistics/probability, data mining, machine learning
Understanding how these theoretical concepts could be applied to real-world problems
Ability to understand the nature of business problems and see the place of analytical models in the solution
Knowledge and hands-on experience with one or more of the following for data analytics: Spark/Theano/TensorFlow/Caffee

**SKILLS AND ABILITIES**

Strong English verbal and written communication skills
Deep analytical skills
Self-organization, self-management
Ability to work independently with limited supervision
Ability to handle multi-tasking activities
Ability to learn quickly
Following academic research and trends as a habit
Initiative and pro-active skills and flexibility

**JOB CONTEXT**

Customer-facing role
Sole responsibility over the analytical project
High level of responsibility
Simultaneous handling and fast processing of multiple tasks
Lots of educational and self-educational activities
Culture of knowledge sharing

**WHAT WILL YOU GET WITH ELEKS**

Above average compensation and competitive Social package
Close cooperation with a customer
Business trips
Challenging tasks
Competence development
Ability to influence project technologies
Projects from scratch
Team of professionals
Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy
Medical insurance

**ABOUT ELEKS**

ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.

Our 1,800+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting and dedicated teams.