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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Data Science Consultant within the Customer Excellence Data and Analytics, (CEDA) organization. The Senior Data Science Consultant is responsible for owning the full analytics development cycle including mining and analyzing data, building predictive models using NLP and Machine Learning techniques, identifying performance issues and opportunities, delivering meaningful insights and building documentation of validation methods and results.

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables by utilizing data-driven, advanced analytical, statistical techniques, algorithms, or models to make actionable insights, trends, or recommendations.

• Review and analyze moderately complex, large structured and unstructured data sets from various sources, requiring an in-depth hypothesis generation and advanced analysis of variable factors to convert data into meaningful insights and recommendations.

• Independently analyze and resolve moderately complex issues and lead team to meet deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of analytic capabilities.

• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to drive recommendations and strategies based on data-driven analytical insights, trends, and patterns that will resolve issues and achieve goals; may lead projects, teams, or serve as a mentor for lower-level staff.

• Follow the model development life cycle to support collection and preparation of data to support the building, testing and iterative development of models or analytical solutions, and partner with deployment and oversight functions to ensure successful delivery and achievement of business objectives.

• Interpret and analyze data, using advanced analytics modeling methods and programming, to recommend ways to solve problems and influence business decisions and strategies.

• Communicate actionable insights and recommendations using data in a digestible format to a non-technical audience of varying levels.

Required Qualifications:

• 4 years of data science experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics, economics, or computer science

Desired Qualifications:

• Fluency in SAS, Python, SQL (Teradata).

• Experience with Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP).

• Large Language Model (LLM) experience preferred.

• Model development and model validation experience including end-to-end model build efforts from discovery to deployment.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex material to a diverse audience.

• Adept at designing/performing model testing, including explainability, robustness, fairness testing, etc.

• Proficient in creating accompanying documentation in model development process.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

• Ability to work on site per Wells Fargo's standard operating model in one of the listed locations.

Posting Locations:

• CHANDLER, AZ

• MINNEAPOLIS, MN

• WEST DES MOINES, IA

• CHARLOTTE, NC

• IRVING, TX

• SAN ANTONIO, TX

The Chief Operating Office Functions adhere to a location strategy; therefore, your candidacy may be determined based on your current location. Remote work locations are not available for these roles, so if you are not in a location listed on the posting, you must commit to relocation within an agreed upon timeframe.

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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