Data Scientist - REMOTE, Mid-Level

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Job Summary:

JSR Tech Consulting is seeking a Data Scientist to join their Institutional Retirement Strategies team. In this role, you will partner with a diverse team to develop advanced data science solutions and analytics capabilities, while also collaborating with engineers to integrate solutions with business platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the hands-on development of advanced data science solutions comprising the portfolio developed by the Lead Data Scientist and the technical requirements specified by the Lead Data Scientist.

• Perform hands-on data analysis, model development, model training, model testing.

• Write production-level code and partner with machine learning engineers to push development code into production.

• Continuously research new methods for problem solution, including new algorithms, modeling techniques, and data analytics techniques.

• Partner with machine learning engineers to productionized machine learning models.

• Partner with data engineers to build data pipelines.

• Partner with software engineers to integrate solutions with business platforms.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Advanced degree (Masters, Ph.D.) in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Econometrics, Physics, Computer Science, Actuarial, Data Science, or comparable quantitative disciplines.

• Working on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.

• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through self-initiative and seeking challenges.

• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills.

• Machine Learning: Understanding of machine learning theory, including the mathematics underlying machine learning algorithms.

• Expertise in the application of machine learning theory to building, training, testing, interpreting and monitoring machine learning models.

• Generative AI & Natural Language Processing: Experience with modeling and interpreting text analysis including NLP, LLMs (BERT, etc), and Generative AI.

• Experience in modern Gen AI technologies including RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, vector DB and their application in Institutional Retirement Strategies area.

• Statistics and Computing: Exceptional understanding of: Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Applied Probability, Applied Statistics, Computer Science (Programming Methodologies), and Cloud.

• Knowledge of statistical techniques such as the use of descriptive, inferential, Bayesian statistics, time series analysis etc. to extract business insights and experimentation to solve business problems.

• Data Acquisition and Transformation: Acquiring data from disparate data sources using API's and SQL.

• Transform data using SQL and Python.

• Visualizing data using a diverse tool set including but not limited to Python.

• Database Management System: Knowledge of how databases are structured and function in order to use them efficiently.

• May include multiple data environments, cloud/AWS, primary and foreign key relationships, table design, database schemas, etc.

• Data Wrangling: Preparing data for further analysis; Redefining and mapping raw data to generate insights; Processing of large datasets (structured, unstructured).

• AWS DevOps: Experience in the project development life cycle in an AWS environment.

• Familiar with development, QA, staging and production deployment stages.

• Programming Languages: Python, SQL.

Company:

JSR Tech Consulting provides contract consulting services for business and technology leaders in financial services. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Cranford, New Jersey, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.