Data Scientist Job at WSECU, Olympia, WA

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  • WSECU
  • Olympia, WA

Job Description

Are you a talented Data Scientist? WSECU is looking for an entry level Data Scientist to synthesize and leverage our many disparate datasets in order to enhance the products and services we offer to make our members' financial lives easier. In this role, you will perform experimental design approaches to validate findings or test hypotheses. You'll be responsible for continually challenging our current best thinking on how our products and services are meeting our members financial needs. This is a unique opportunity to join a new, multidisciplinary team of creative and passionate individuals destined to change the face of the Credit Union industry. We are focused on the Credit Unions agenda, and work on high-impact projects utilizing big data analytics and machine learning to improve the financial well-being of our members. Your day might include: Working with end-users and analysts to model complex problems, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, algorithmic, data mining and visualization techniques Modeling and framing business scenarios that are meaningful and which have direct impact on critical business processes and / or decisions Interviewing end-users to determine requirements for data, reports, analysis, metadata, training, service levels, data quality, and performance Developing and performing text classification using methods such as logistic regression, decision trees, support vector machines and maximum entropy classifiers Helping build WSECU's capability and strategy (short term and long term) to understand and assess new products, and evaluating the success of existing products and services Distilling insights from member data that address key business challenges and providing actionable recommendations Ability and desire to solve business problems, and to find patterns and insights within structured and unstructured data. The ability and desire to propose analytics strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of those around you Demonstrating accomplishments in the use of statistical analysis environments such as R, MATLAB, SPSS or SAS Experience with Programming and/or scripting languages a plus. Python, Java and C/C++ strongly preferred Developing & communicating data insights & recommendations in a clear & concise manner (i.e., data driven change management) Providing expertise on mathematical concepts for the broader applied Analytics and Insights team and inspiring the adoption of advanced analytics and data science across the entire breadth of our organization What you bring to the team: Master's Degree in one of the following areas: econometrics, operations research, applied statistics, machine learning, hard science or engineering, or related quantitative discipline Demonstrated understanding of the financial and economic levers that impacts WSECU's business performance Strong technical, analytical, and problem solving skills and the ability to effectively utilize techniques to derive insights Demonstrated ability to communicate operational and technical issues to a wide variety of audiences at all organizational levels - must have strong data storytelling abilities Expertise in one the following: econometric modeling; statistical and predictive modeling; machine-learning approaches such as; clustering and classification techniques, recommendation and optimization algorithms well-developed oral and written communication skills including the writing of executive and board level reports, human relation skills and problem solving skills Requires the ability to communicate effectively to many levels of staff internally as well as outside individuals and vendors outside the organization with the ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language Bonus points if you have: Postgraduate school experience delivering wor WSECU

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