Director, Data Science - 2006128

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Boston, MA
Posted on: April 24, 2020

Job Description:

Position Description:

Carries advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) use cases from concept through client-facing implementation. Translates business needs into quantitative use cases for research and development.

Primary Responsibilities:

Translates qualitative business-level requests into technical requirements.

Engages with architects and data engineers, governance stakeholders, and scientists to develop models, prove their effectiveness, and demonstrate results.

Responsible for simultaneous use cases at different stages of maturity in their lifecycles and effectively switches contexts on demand as required.

Applies machine learning to data to develop analytics and insights.

Assists in developing data strategies.

Serves as an analytics subject matter expert within the organization.

Educates team members and associates within the organization about Machine Learning (ML) and AI.

Education and Experience:

Bachelors degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience in the job offered or six (6) years of experience developing and launching machine learning algorithms in the wealth and relationship management, marketing, and sales industries for client-facing financial platforms.

Or, alternatively, a Masters degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or four (4) years of experience developing and launching machine learning algorithms in the wealth and relationship management, marketing, and sales industries for client-facing financial platforms.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrated Expertise (DE) developing supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement machine learning algorithms (regression, decision trees/random forests, neural networks, feature selection/reduction, clustering, and parameter tuning), using programming languages (Python, PySpark, and Scala) and tools (Tensorflow, AWS services, d3.js, Gephi, and R).

DE designing and developing data pipelines, cleansing data, and constructing feature engineering routines, using Hive, PySpark, and Pandas; performing natural language processing, using Gensim, NLTK, and Spacy to create data sets used for statistical models and machine learning; and creating data sets used for statistical models, using advanced transformation techniques (SQL, Hive, or Impala) and Big Data.

DE executing data science projects across computing environments and platforms (Linux, Windows, Oracle/SQL, Greenplum/Postgres, and Hadoop/Hive); performing software development -- programming in Python and using data science libraries (NLTK, SciPy, Scikit-learn, NumPy, or Pandas) to create feature engineering pipelines or build machine learning models -- in a large financial services environment.

DE applying software development best practices -- source code management, documentation, code reviews, frameworks, and dependencies -- to create code during the course of research, using Jupyter Notebook, PyCharm, Bitbucket, and Git-Stash; coordinating with stakeholders to assign data engineering and analysis tasks, using project methodologies (Agile, Scrum, or Kanban) and technologies (Atlassian Stack and Trello); communicating with business stakeholders using Edifier, Skype, and Microsoft Teams to gather and interpret business and stakeholder requirements for data science projects; and writing stories and acceptance criteria, setting story priorities, and tracking requirement fulfillment progressing using Jira.

For full job details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.fidelity.com and search for job number: 2006128

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