Data Scientist - Big Data Ecosystems - Bilingual English/Spanish

On behalf of our client in the Banking Sector, PROCOM is looking for a Data Scientist - Big Data Ecosystems - Bilingual English/Spanish.

Data Scientist - Big Data Ecosystems - Bilingual English/Spanish – Job Description

Global Data and Analytics Solutions is seeking a Data Scientist to support key projects, in an agile rapid lab environment, aimed at accelerating benefits for customers and the bank, leveraging enterprise-level data management tools and advanced analytics

Work closely with Global teams, business lines, Digital Banking and technology to apply advanced analytics techniques and tools, as well as explore ideas to enhance business opportunities utilizing advanced analytics and artificial intelligence

The Data Scientist role in the Customer Insights, Data & Analytics team is designed for individuals with a curiosity for deriving insights out of data and applying them to address business opportunities, in partnership with global teams and business lines driving innovation and advanced analytics across the Enterprise

Work in an Agile environment to deploy solutions within 90-120 days

Collaborate with business lines and other stakeholders to identify opportunities to drive business value by leveraging Data Science

Ingest massive volumes of structure and unstructured format data, model, transform and store it in a variety of data stores

Leverage distributed computing tools (e.g., Spark, Hadoop) for analysis, data mining and modeling

Collaborate with Data engineering to deploy models and algorithms in production, across business lines and geographies

Create and apply model and algorithm testing strategies to measure conduct multi-variate testing and A/B testing to measure effectiveness of models and make ongoing changes

Prepare detailed documentation to outline data sources, models and algorithms used and developed

Present results to business line stakeholders and help implement real data-driven changes

Lead Research & Development work focused on the effective application of design thinking and scalable advanced techniques to drive ideation and innovation

Collaborate with other Advanced Analytics stakeholders and partners to define data engineering, visualization and machine learning best-practices

Be an integral part of the Advanced Analytics community for incubating ideas and use case acceleration in rapid labs across key markets through advisory, training and scalable solutions

Support analytical use-case delivery, as well as customer/financial benefits tracking and communication

Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.

Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team

Data Scientist - Big Data Ecosystems - Bilingual English/Spanish – Mandatory Skills

Must be fluently bilingual in Spanish/English

3+ years of hands-on experience with Big Data ecosystem tools (e.g., Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Spark, Kafka)

3+ years of experience hands on with SQL & Python

2+ years of experience cleaning, transforming and visualizing large data sets working with various data formats (e.g., unstructured logs, XML, JSON, flat files, audio, image)

Self driven and able to work independently during different time zones, evenings and weekends as required

Works well under pressure and against strict timelines

Ability to work well within a team towards common goals

Ability to provide progress reports and outline clear requirements to complete required integrated changes

Able to write and communicate fluently in English and Spanish in order to provide clear directives and work well with remote assistance in various countries

University degree in relevant STEM discipline (Computer Sciences, Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering and Mathematics)

Data Scientist - Big Data Ecosystems - Bilingual English/Spanish - Nice to have Skills

Natural Language Processing Experience - preferably demonstrated in recent projects

Solid SQL skills for querying relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, DB2, MySQL)

3+ years of experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Hbase, Cassandra, Druid)

Production experience with experimental design, statistical analysis, machine learning and predictive modeling (e.g., cross-sell, upsell, attrition, acquisition and lookalike models)

Experience using and implementing visualization tools like PowerBI or Tableau

Working experience with machine learning and other AI techniques for strategy design

Data Scientist - Big Data Ecosystems - Bilingual English/Spanish - Assignment Start Date

ASAP – 6 months to start

Data Scientist - Big Data Ecosystems - Bilingual English/Spanish - Assignment Location

Toronto, ON – Work Remotely