Key Responsibilities of the Data Scientist
- Build real-time business performance dashboards for risk monitoring.
- Design risk assessment scorecards for all lending stages (pre-acquisition to recoveries) using explainable ML techniques.
- Develop proprietary variables from mainstream (credit bureau, application data) and alternative sources (social media, transaction patterns).
- Implement supervised/unsupervised learning models combining structured and unstructured data.
- Convert raw data (bureau, transactional, social media) into actionable features via techniques like dimensionality reduction, interaction terms, and temporal aggregation.
- Maintain a continuously-updating Business Rule Engine that codifies lending policies using Python.
- Optimize Python-based feature pipelines for GPU acceleration (CUDA/Numba) and Spark/Dask distributed processing.
- Establish data handling protocols for extraction, cleaning, and pipeline maintenance.
Collection Insights & Analytics
- 0 to 2 years of experience with Power BI and SQL as a data analyst or similar role.
- Strong analytical mindset with attention to data accuracy and problem solving, and an ability to work independently.
- Strong background in writing advanced SQL queries (joins, filters, window functions, etc.).
- Experienced at building Power BI data models and manage relationships between multiple tables.
- Comfortable using DAX for building complex measures, calculated columns, Parameters etc.
- Ability to troubleshoot and debug issues when reports or data pipelines break.
- Effective communication skills to translate business needs into analytical solutions.
- Experienced in working with large datasets from different sources.
- Basic knowledge of Python for data wrangling (numpy, pandas).