Andela: Senior Data Scientist (Remote)
About the job
About Andela
Andela exists to connect brilliance and opportunity.
Since 2014, we have been dedicated to breaking down global barriers and accelerating the future of work for both technologists and organizations around the world.
For technologists, Andela offers competitive long-term career opportunities with leading organizations, access to a global community of professionals, and education opportunities with leading technology providers.
For companies, Andela provides access to a global network of fully integrated team members that unlock their business innovation and growth potential.
At Andela, we are deeply passionate about creating long-lasting and transformative growth opportunities for all and doing it in an E.P.I.C. way.
We are excited to continue building our remote-first team with incredible people like you!
About Company
Our client is looking for a seasoned Data Scientist to support their Data Science team by providing critical insights on the design, and implementation of complex Machine Learning models to make predictions on creditworthiness, rent-delinquency, and other forward-looking statistical factors, to arrive at a robust, interpretable, and precise, predictive risk model(s)
Responsibilities:
Have a growing understanding of the banking, fraud, and risk in the banking sector
Implement Machine Learning models to predict individuals’ financial history to provide the best financial resources. This includes creditworthiness, rent delinquency, and so on. These models have to be robust, interpretable, and precise, giving confidence alongside predictions.
Support the development of financial products such as rent relief for rent payments by implementing statistical models to assess risk.
Required Skills:
5+ years' experience in data science
Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Computer Science or similar, advanced degree preferred with an outstanding record of academic achievement.
Experience in agile development methodologies.
Ability to tell stories from data insights and be familiar with some form of visualization like Tableau, Power BI.
Knowledge of statistical programming languages like Python and database query languages like SQL.
Experience with relational databases.
The overlap required: fully overlaps with GMT +2 except Sunday where it is expected you will overlap at least 5 hrs.
Work week: Sunday-Thursday
At Andela, we outcompete through diversity. We know that our strengths lie in the multiplicity of talents, perspectives, backgrounds & orientations of residents in our community and we take pride in that.
Andela is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices. Andela provides equal employment opportunities and workplace to all employees and applicants without regard to factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy (including breastfeeding), genetic information, HIV/AIDS or any other medical status, family or parental status, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This commitment applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Our policies expressly prohibit any form of harassment and/or discrimination as stated above.
Andela is home for all, come as you are.
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