What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist (Senior) position at Equifax for Business?
Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.
Our Data Scientist roles are unique. This is a career level (Senior) Data Scientist opening. The ideal candidate is a rare hybrid, a scientist with the programming abilities to scrape, combine, and manage data from a variety of sources and a statistician who knows how to derive insights from the information within. He or she will combine the skills to create new prototypes with the creativity and thoroughness to ask and answer the deepest questions about the data, what secrets it holds, and to push the boundaries of what is possible with big data. Want to know more?
Are you ready to power your possible? Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!
Who is Equifax?
At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence.
We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life’s pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.
Equifax is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Our Data Scientist roles are unique. This is a career level (Senior) Data Scientist opening. The ideal candidate is a rare hybrid, a scientist with the programming abilities to scrape, combine, and manage data from a variety of sources and a statistician who knows how to derive insights from the information within. He or she will combine the skills to create new prototypes with the creativity and thoroughness to ask and answer the deepest questions about the data, what secrets it holds, and to push the boundaries of what is possible with big data. Want to know more?
- This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.
- This position can be based in Alpharetta, GA. This resource should be local to Atlanta and will be able to work from this particular office.
- Corporate Return To Office expectations: Onsite weekly requirements each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday each week.
- Utilize combined knowledge of data structures, analytics, algorithms/models, and strong computer science fundamentals to independently prepare datasets, conduct analytics, and develop deployable solutions
- Collect, analyze and interpret large data assets to define and build multiple innovative solution components leveraging business and technical expertise. Support the analytical strategy by understanding critical technical capabilities and suggesting opportunities. Lead the development or projects with multiple deliverables, leveraging business and technical expertise.
- Work on high-complexity tasks in problems often within multiple business or analytical domains, collaborating with other teams to develop predictive models, risk assessments, fraud detection, recommendation engines, etc. encouraging enhanced solutions
- Package, summarize, visualize and perform storytelling on analytical findings and results for management and business users
- Communicate results to external stakeholders and mid level leadership, able to communicate business impact of work
- Evaluate the technical work of peer and junior data scientists, guiding them on deliverable quality and accuracy
- BS degree in a STEM major or equivalent discipline
- 5-7 years of experience in a related analytical role
- Proven track record of designing and developing predictive models in real-world applications
- Experience with model performance evaluation and predictive model optimization for accuracy and efficiency
- Cloud certification strongly preferred
- Additional role-based certifications may be required depending upon region/BU requirements
- Passion for data science, data mining, machine learning and experience with big data architectures and methods
- A Master's degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Economics)
Are you ready to power your possible? Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!
Who is Equifax?
At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence.
We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life’s pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.
Equifax is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
