Watson Financial Crimes Insight Data Scientist

Job description

IBM Watson FSS: Join a Leader in Financial Services Solutions!

IBM Watson Financial Services Solutions help global top-tier Financial Services clients solve their most complex business and financial risk issues. As a Data Scientist in the Financial Crimes Insight Solutions you will play a key role within the exciting Financial Crimes Insight Solutions business. You will use your subject matter expertise and data science skills to design, develop and deploy data driven solutions from pre-sales to delivery.

The Financial Crimes Insight development organization is a fast-paced product development team working in an agile environment. As a member of the development team you will apply data science skills to ensure the successful design and implementation through various phases of POCs and solution implementations. Main responsibilities include: analysis of industrial-sized data sets to determine suitability for model building; identify opportunities for data augmentation; data staging and analysis; signal processing, pattern identification and feature extraction; variable creation and selection; experimentation with algorithms; performance analysis and presentation for communication with internal and external clients. The Data Scientist creates, tests and validates hypotheses for business problems. Able to work with experts in a business area; has some knowledge of business strategy/execution. Identifies approaches to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of analytics models. Understands and prepares data for analysis by applying knowledge of data sources and how they are gathered, stored and retrieved as well as manipulating large volumes of data. Able to effectively use key analytics tools to design, develop and apply appropriate statistical and mathematical techniques to solve business problems as well as to create repeatable, automated processes. Familiar with several data and big data tools. Creates visual presentations of analytics results and sometimes translates quantitative insights for a non-technical audience. Works with target users to deploy analytics solution.

In addition to broad and deep data and analytics skills, the data scientist has strong business acumen, coupled with the ability to communicate findings to both business and IT leaders in a way that can influence how an organization approaches a business challenge. Incumbents also advise on and select the business problems that have the most value for the organization. Incumbents are typically not found within a functional area or tied to an individual project, but rather are experts who are able to address problems across the organization.
Auto req ID

124285BR
Required Education

Bachelor's Degree
Role ( Job Role )

Data Scientist
State / Province

NORTH CAROLINA
Primary job category

Data Science
Contract type

Regular
Employment Type

Full-Time
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No
Travel Required

Up to 10% or 1 day a week
IBM Business Group

Industry Plat
Preferred Education

Master's Degree
City / Township / Village

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK
EO Statement

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Developer will utilize skills and experience in mathematics and statistics to design and implement analytice algorithms, machine learning and executiong pipelines.
·  Analytic/scientific programming skills (UNIX, Python, scripting, R, SAS, MATLAB, Spark, SPSS, etc)
·  Developer will lead other data scientists
Country

United States
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

·  Knowledge and understanding of SQL, JAVA, Scala, or Big Data infrastructure
·  Minimum 2 years experience designing and implementing analytics
Eligibility Requirements

·  none
Position Type

Professional
New Collar Role

No