Data Scientist II - Client Protection

Description

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Job Summary:
This job is responsible for reviewing and interpretating large datasets to uncover revenue generation opportunities and ensuring the development of effective risk management strategies. Key responsibilities include working with lines of business to comprehend problems, utilizing sophisticated analytics and deploying advanced techniques to devise solutions, and presenting recommendations based on findings. Job expectations include demonstrating leadership, resilience, accountability, a disciplined approach, and a commitment to fostering responsible growth for the enterprise.

Client Protection Shared Services – Advanced Analytics is looking for an energetic and inquisitive data scientist to join our team and help us combat financial crime. In this role, you will be expected to work on large and complex data science projects that entail working with both relational and graph databases. In these projects, it is expected to collaborate with internal strategy, technology, product, and policy partners to deploy advanced analytical solutions with the goal of reducing fraud losses, lowering false positive impacts, improving client experience, and ensuring the Bank minimizes its total cost of fraud. Key responsibilities include applying knowledge of multiple business and technical-related topics and independently driving strategic initiatives, large-scale projects, and overall improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Perform graph analytics to find and mitigate densely connected fraud networks
• Assist with the generation, prioritization, and investigation of fraud rings
• Enable business analytics, including data analysis, trend identification, and pattern recognition, using advanced techniques to drive decision making and data driven insights
• Understanding of end-to-end model development work, ranging from supervised, unsupervised, and graph-based machine learning solutions, to maximize detection of fraud or capture anomalous behavior
• Manage multiple priorities and ensures quality and timeliness of work deliverables such as data science products, data analysis reports, or data visualizations, while exhibiting the ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Manage relationships with multiple technology teams, development team, and line of business leaders, including alignment of roadmaps, managing projects, and managing risks
• Oversee development, delivery and quality assurance for data science use cases delivered to the production environment and other areas of the line of business
• Support the identification of potential issues and development of controls
• Support execution of large-scale projects, such as platform conversions or new project integrations by conducting advanced reporting and drawing analytical-based insights
• Manages a roadmap of data science use cases to answer business trends based on economic and portfolio conditions and communicate findings to senior management, while diligently working and leading peers to solve for these use cases
• Coach and mentor peers to improve proficiency in a variety of systems and serve as a subject matter expert on multiple business and technical-related topics
• Apply agile practices for project management, solution development, deployment, and maintenance
• Deliver presentations in an engaging and effective manner through in-person and virtual conversations that communicates technical concepts and analysis results to a diverse set of internal stakeholders, and develops professional relationships to foster collaboration on work deliverables
• Maintain knowledge of the latest advances in the fields of data science and artificial intelligence to support business analytics
• Engage business and technology senior leaders on reporting of project/deliverable statuses, opportunity identification, and planning efforts

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in data and analytics
• 4+ years of experience in data analytics within fraud prevention
• Must be proficient with SQL and one of SAS, Python, or Java
• Must have familiarity with Graph databases (e.g. TigerGraph, Neo4J) and graph query languages
• Problem-solving skills including selection of data and deployment of solutions
• Proven ability to manage projects, exercise thought leadership and work with limited direction on complex problems to achieve project goals while also leading a broader team
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Thrives in fast-paced and highly dynamic environment
• Intellectual curiosity and strong urge to figure out the “whys” of a problem and produce creative solutions
• Exposure to model development leveraging supervised and unsupervised machine learning (regression, tree-based algorithms, etc.)
• Expertise in data analytics and technical development lifecycles including having coached junior staff
• Expertise handling and manipulating data across its lifecycle in a variety of formats, sizes, and storage technologies to solve a problem (e.g., structured, semi-structured, unstructured; graph; hadoop; kafka)

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced Quantitative degree (Master’s or PhD)
• 7+ years of experience; work in financial services is very helpful, with preference to fraud, credit, cybersecurity, or other heavily quantitative areas
• Understanding of advanced machine learning methodologies including neural networks, graph algorithms, ensemble learning like XGB, and other techniques
• Proficient with SPARK, H2O, or similar advanced analytical tools
• Analytical and Innovating Thinking
• Problem Solving and Business Acumen
• Risk and Issue Management, interpreting relevant laws, rules, and regulations
• Data Visualization, Oral and Written Communication, and Presentation Skills
• Experience managing multi-year roadmaps, engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders, and leading large cross-functional formal projects
• Experience influencing mid to senior (executive) level leaders
• Experience managing risk and issue remediation
• Understanding of computer science topics like automation, code versioning, computational complexity, parallel processing, requirements gathering, testing methodologies, and development lifecycle models like Agile

Skills:

• Agile Practices
• Application Development
• DevOps Practices
• Technical Documentation
• Written Communications
• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
• Business Analytics
• Data Visualization
• Presentation Skills
• Risk Management
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Consulting
• Networking
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - IL - Chicago - 110 N Wacker Dr - Bank Of America Tower Chicago (IL4110), US - MA - Boston - 100 Federal St - 100 Federal St Lp (MA5100)Pay and benefits informationPay range$165,000.00 - $246,200.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.BenefitsThis role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.