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Risk Focus, a Ness Company, provides strategic IT consulting to global enterprises. Our DevOps and Infrastructure practice provides solutions, methodologies, and strategic guidance for digital transformation, containerization, and automation. Our Financial Services team offers strong domain expertise and technology acumen to deliver feature-focused solutions in Capital Markets.
We solve complex business problems with technology and insight. Our business domain knowledge, technology expertise, and Agile delivery process have delivered seamless Digital Transformations at some of the largest customers globally. We’re an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, a Premier Confluent Systems Integrator and a Snowflake Select Services Partner.
As a Data Scientist you will:
- Serve as an inidual contributor on data science projects for Ness clients across multiple industry verticals: financial services, digital media, manufacturing, and others.
- Contribute to the success of data science and ML projects providing expertise in multiple of the following:
- System architecture
- Data cleansing
- Data wrangling
- Feature generation and selection
- Model development and testing
- Deployment
Requirements
- Strong Python skills (Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, etc)
- Strong quantitative skills
- Experience with data collection, cleaning, and ETL processes
- Experience with commonly used machine learning algorithms
- UNIX/Linux skills including shell scripts and system administration
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong database skills with both SQL-based relational databases as well as NoSQL
Additional Desired Skills:
- Experience with machine learning projects on AWS and/or Azure
- Programming languages including Java, Scala, C++, C#, JavaScript, R
- Data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake, AWS Redshift, and/or Azure Synapse Analytics
- Experience with AWS ML technologies such as SageMaker
- Knowledge of deep learning, NLP or big data analytics tools (e.g., Apache Spark, DataBricks) is a plus
- Experience with streaming data analytics using Kafka, Kinesis Streams, or similar
Education and Certification Requirements:
- An undergraduate degree in a STEM discipline is usually required.
- Graduate degree (MS or PhD in Data Science, Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science, or other quantitative discipline) strongly preferred
- AWS or Azure certifications desirable (Solution Architect, Machine Learning or Big Data specialty certification
- Snowflake SnowPro certification desirable
Benefits
- Flexible work environment with a globally distributed team
- Competitive compensation packages including performance bonuses
- Paid vacation and sick time off
- Employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance
- A culture of cooperation and support
- Continual professional and personal development through employer-paid training and certifications
