Synopsis of the role
What You Will Do
- For the first 3-6 months you will learn our data, our technologies and our platforms and support our advanced analytics team in your journey to becoming an Equifax data expert.
- You will develop new tools, advanced analytical techniques and products.
- You will develop new attributes which add value to business decisions including exploratory analysis across new alternative data sources, new data partnerships and expansion of the Equifax data lake.
- You will design new features to meet the needs of our Scoring and Modelling team, creating packages which offer superior predictive power to those currently being utilised
- With the support of your manager, you will work on your own projects including defining business and technical requirements, resource planning and analytical solution design.
- You will provide recommendations and market insights that support solving complex business problems
- You will ensure quality control of all analytical output by junior and intermediate data scientists.
What Experience You Will Need
- 3 years' data science and analysis experience with expert knowledge of Python, SQL, R or SAS in a large data environment.
- 3 years' proven hands-on experience designing, building and implementing analytical solutions to solve real world problems.
- Experience working with credit or fraud data
- Understanding of advanced machine learning algorithms and statistics and the model development process
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or Physics is essential.
Skills What could set you apart (nice to have skills):
- A background in financial services, credit, telecommunications or utilities.
- Experience creating and using advanced machine learning algorithms and statistics
- Experience in leadership and mentorship
- Experience with development and deployment of models in a cloud based environment such as AWS or GCP is preferred.
- Master's level degree in a business-related field/MBA.
Who is Equifax?
