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Senior Data Scientist, Home Loans

SoFi
SoFi Salary
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 1/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/12/2025

The role

The Borrow Data Science team is seeking a Senior Data Scientist who will help support growth in our Mortgage and Home Equity businesses by improving SoFi’s ability to execute with data.  This is an exciting role for someone to leverage their analytical skills to create robust reporting, identify growth opportunities and insights, and build ML models using Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, and Sagemaker.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will drive growth in our business by delivering high quality analytics to key stakeholders, through a clear and repeatable data informed approach.  You will help create a culture of strong technical ownership, documenting your approach and ideas to socialize, resulting in strategies that have a wide impact within the organization. You will perform analytical deep-dives to proactively identify most impactful opportunities, and inform future experimentation design and product roadmaps.

In this role, you'll use your expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning to uncover insights that will directly influence product strategy and revenue growth. This role demands a strong technical foundation (SQL, Python / R, Tableau, Statistics), a deep understanding of business metrics, A / B testing, causal inference analysis, and exceptional collaboration skills.

Additionally, you are expected to work cross-functionally, including : engineering, product managers, lifecycle marketing, data science, design, operations, finance, risk, legal, compliance, and executive teams to set business objectives, define product strategy, prioritize features, and execute on them.

What you’ll do :

  • Identify high impact business opportunities to help members achieve their financial goals
  • Develop and apply machine learning models to solve business problems
  • Evaluate and interpret the results of data analysis
  • Build strong relationships with stakeholders and present insights on a regular cadence communicating findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Design and implement data collection. Build data pipelines to deploy production level datasets.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and business leaders to understand needs and offer data-driven solutions

What you’ll need :

  • Masters’ or above in quantitative areas : Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 5 years of relevant experience leveraging data-driven analysis to influence key decisions, preferably in a Tech or Finance company
  • Proven track record of being able to work independently, and proactively engaging with business stakeholders with minimal direction and drive measurable business impact.
  • Experience with using Airflow and DBT to build Data Pipelines in Snowflake
  • Strong programming skills in SQL and Python
  • Experience with building data visualizations with Tableau, Looker or other BI tools
  • Knowledge of varied ML algorithms, applicability to different business problems, and experience in deploying ML models at scale in production with monitoring metrics.
  • Ability to work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, with a strong attention to detail;
  • Effective communication and presentation skills and ability to explain complex analyses in simple terms to business leaders;
  • Strong relationship building and collaborative skills;
  • Exceptional problem-solving
  • Compensation and Benefits

    The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

    To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our  Benefits at SoFi   page!

    Pay range : $128,000.00 - $240,000.00

    Payment frequency : Annual

    This role is also eligible for a bonus, long term incentives and competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link above.

    Salary : $128,000 - $240,000

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