Mindlance
Senior Data Scientist
McLean, Virginia, USA · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- Your Impact: As a Data Scientist at clients, you will join a group of skilled professionals who use data science to solve important business problems.
- Providing innovative, detailed and practical solutions to an extensive range of demanding and complicated problems.
- Implementing statistical models in efficient software languages, coding model prototypes for specification and test cases, modifying source codes in the existing application.
Responsibilities
- Developing analytical methods and models about the collateral underlying the mortgages in clients portfolio.
- Coordinating the testing through the model implementation, conducting back tests to monitor the model performance, and performing economic tests and stress tests to validate the model forecast results.
- Providing modeling and analytical support to a line of business or product area, functioning as day-to-day technical specialist.
- Preparing documentation for the technical analytics and rationale through the model development to comply with model oversight and support model review for approval.
- Working under limited direction, independently resolving and developing approach to solutions.
Requirements
- Doctorate degree, or Master degree with 3 years of equivalent work experience, in quantitative finance, statistics, economics or a related quantitative field.
- Programming languages may include but are not limited to SAS, Python, R, SQL, and MATLAB Experience working with large data sets and relational database.
Nice to have
- Experience in statistical model development and implementation is preferred Experience with software development and system setup for model application is preferred
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.
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