Sr. Data Scientist

Sonsoft, Inc. is a USA based corporation duly organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Georgia. Sonsoft Inc. is growing at a steady pace specializing in the fields of Software Development, Software Consultancy and Information Technology Enabled Services.

Job Description

• Senior Data Scientist.
• Research various analytical approaches.
• Recommend and develop mathematical algorithms for related business problems.
• Communicate and direct development teams on implementation of statistical models.
• Interface with business users and gather feedback on delivered analytical data.
• Deploy solutions onto big data platforms.
• Functional Responsibilities:
• Specific tasks include but are not limited to:
• Work on one of the following initiatives within Predictive Client Analytics group: RFM recommendations, CCAR, and other projects TBD.
• Validation of analytical approaches produced by vendor and third-party consulting teams.

Technical / Analytical Skills:

• Excellent understanding and experience with application of machine learning concepts and techniques (linear/logistic regression, clustering, classification, PCA, Naive Bayes, association rules, collaborative filtering, recommendation techniques, etc.).
• Experience with regression techniques for modeling the relationship between an output variable and several input variables.
• Experience with big data technologies.
• Experience with visualization tools like Tableau.
• Experience creating interface specification documents, attribute mapping documents, functional specifications.
• Experience with web scraping.
• Experience with text matching applications.

Nice to have:

• Understanding of regulatory guidelines (CCAR, Basel) around model risk management.
• Working knowledge of various fixed income and equities products, for example derivatives, FX, and cash equities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Python, R, SQL, Hive, Spark.
• Statistical analysis: to understand and work around possible limitations in models.
• Being able to develop hypotheses and test the hypotheses with careful experiments.
• Research and implement data mining machine learning algorithms in supervised and unsupervised learning areas.
• Experience with time series modeling.
• Experience with optimization approaches.
• Familiarity with the Big Data Ecosystem tools: Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Mahout, Spark (Spark SQL, MLLib), HBase, and be comfortable with using the tools.
• Strong experience in data manipulation using SQL on Hive/Impala or other databases.
• Experience in developing and deploying models with Mahout, Spark MLLib is preferable.
• Must be proficient in programming either R/Python/Scala.
• Should have experience in the financial services industry - capital markets would be preferable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 7 years of experience within information technologies.

Additional Information

U.S. citizens and those who are authorized to work independently in the United States are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

• This is a Full-Time & Permanent job opportunity.
• Only US Citizens , Green Card Holders , GC-EAD , H4-EAD , L2-EAD , H1B , and TN Visa can apply.
• H1B Transfer can also apply for this Full-Time & Permanent job position.
• No OPT-EAD candidates please.
• Please mention your Immigration Status while applying.
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.