Sr Data Scientist at Personal Capital

Grow your career with a growing organizationWhether they’re helping people reach their long-term financial goals or providing personal wealth management strategies, every associate contributes to changing the lives of those we serve for the better. When it comes to job satisfaction, that’s hard to beat. And from a personal satisfaction perspective, you’ll enjoy the freedom to support causes that matter to you and experience a truly inclusive work environment. Your future starts now.RoleYou will provide insights to business stakeholders in Marketing, Sales, Product, and Service, enabling them to make informed decisions. You will perform exploratory and detailed analysis of large data sets and present the analysis to stakeholders. You will maintain and create complex classifiers, predictive models and utilize other machine learning techniques, in collaboration with Data Engineers, Java Engineers, Business Analysts and business stakeholders to provide analysis and make recommendations. Candidate We are searching for someone innovative. Someone who can think outside of the box, understand our financial services business, and advocate visionary and new ideas. Further, the ideal candidate will be self-motivated, work well autonomously as well as with others, possess solid critical thinking skills, hold the ability to synthesize complex problems and develop programs to apply data science concepts to improve business efficiencies.  Excellent written and speaking communication skills are required to work successfully in a collaborative cross-functional environment and interact with the full spectrum of business divisions.  Qualifications
5+ years of professional experience as a data scientist 
A Bachelor/Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics, or another quantitative discipline. A Master/PhD's degree is an added bonus. 
Experience with statistics and/or applied math as the basis for selecting appropriate models and experiments.  
Experience with data science projects from end to end, starting with problem formulation to model development in production.
Experience utilizing conventional machine learning and deep learning libraries, in particular scikit-learn and keras.
Experience developing data pipelines and feature engineering in Python, R or other equivalent programming languages.
Experience working with large sets of data stored in a variety of storage platforms such as traditional Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and NoSQL.
Experience mentoring Data Scientists
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with stakeholders, understand requirements and translate them into solvable problems via Data Science/Machine Learning
Experience with all phases of software development life cycle.
Familiarity with machine learning techniques and classification algorithms.
Familiarity with distributed computing and Big Data technologies, including map/reduce ecosystem (Hadoop, Spark, PySpark, HDFS, Hive)
Strong programming experience in at least one programming language, preferably Python.
Experience utilizing machine learning platforms such as Amazon SageMaker is a plus.
Please note that this role is being posted by Personal Capital, an Empower company. Personal Capital roles are cross-posted to the Empower web site and are also available at https://www.personalcapital.com/company/jobs.  For more information about Personal Capital, please visit www.personalcapital.comWhat we offer youWe offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.
Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 5%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year

Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus nine paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
Business Resource Groups (BRGs) - internal networks that rally around common interest, experiences and identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, ability, military status and sexual orientation. BRGs play a vital role in educating and engaging our people and advancing our business priorities.
The salary range below describes the minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the location listed. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.Base Salary Range$ 113,200.00-181,200.00LocationCA RemoteWe are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age (40 and over), race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.