Data Scientist I

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting‑edge solutions like Zelle, Paze, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

This position serves as a data science team member in the company delivering leading edge machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts from start to finish in collaboration with senior technical and business leaders. This includes understanding the business problem, aggregating, and exploring data, building, and validating algorithms, quantifying the value of the model to Early Warning Customers by performing simulations utilizing real world inputs, understanding, and articulating the model risks, deploying completed models to deliver business results and regularly measuring model accuracy, drift and performance.

Essential Functions

• Produces standard and ad hoc analytic reports.
• Assists with developing, testing, and documenting open‑source codes for data analysis and modeling.
• Performs data analysis tasks, which include programming data transformations, interpreting results and investigating root causes.
• Participates in the creation of internal model validation procedures, supporting external Model Validations, and performing regular model validation as part of the Model Risk Management program.
• Explore and aggregate data independently to uncover data anomalies that impact algorithm performance.
• End to end feature engineering - brainstorm, create, validate, down‑select, etc.
• Write production level code in a dynamic, fast paced environment.
• Apply a variety of machine learning techniques to a business problem to arrive at optimal approach.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities.
• Partnering with Sales and Products to perform Customer Value tests to support the company's business development efforts for current and future Models.
• Explain and visualize results and algorithm performance to non‑technical audiences.
• Support the company's commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and / or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and / or external customers. Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation. The above job description is not intended to be an all‑inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Benefits

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Location and Compensation

The base pay scale for this position in Phoenix, AZ / Chicago, IL in USD per year is : $83,000 - $110,000. New York, NY / San Francisco, CA in USD per year is : $99,000 - $132,000. Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits. This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Early Warning Services, LLC ("Early Warning") considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and qualifications without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status or other protected class. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor irrelevant to job performance. Early Warning and its subsidiaries comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws related to equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.

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