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Job Title

Principal Data Scientist

Job Description
The Data Science team at Ethoca (a Mastercard company) is looking for a Principal Data Scientist. This is a senior level role responsible for developing, deploying, and monitoring Data Science projects involving Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and other AI techniques.

Responsibilities
1. Transform business challenges into scientific research problems
2. Develop data-driven solutions to the challenges using appropriate techniques (AI, ML, DL, etc.)
3. Build and execute various data science projects for product and business use cases across the organization (both product and technology).
4. Hands on data extraction, data analysis, data cleaning, preparation, modeling, and evaluation
5. Deploy, document, maintain and monitor the developed solutions
6. Presenting data science results to variety of audience
7. Protect the developed algorithms and solutions by patenting the technology and publish at academic and industrial research conference.
8. Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts and tool evaluations.
9. Knowledge dissemination by presenting work externally at conferences and Universities.
10. Collaborate with internal teams and across the Mastercard teams
11. Participate and review data science solutions developed by the team
12. Mentor and support junior data scientists

All about You
1. Several years of proven experience in developing and deploying Machine learning and Deep learning solutions end-to-end (data exploration to deployment).
2. Several years of prior experience as a senior level data scientist
3. Ability to extract, cleanse and manage structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
4. Deep understanding of different supervised, unsupervised machine learning, Deep learning, and AI algorithms and the math behind it.
5. Experienced in Text Mining, natural language processing, information extraction and retrieval
6. Solid understanding of the fundamentals behind these algorithms
7. Ability to explain complex algorithms and results to variety of audience
8. Handling data responsibly by maintaining data governance, privacy, and ring-fencing standards
9. Ability to handle multiple complex data science initiatives at the same time
10. Having patents (filed/issued) in the past
11. Curious, critical thinker, hacking skills and scientific reasoning
12. Not afraid to ask questions and propose new approaches

Skills
Python, R Programming
ML Frameworks (Scikit learn) and Deep Learning Framework (TensorFlow, PyTorch)
SQL, SAP HANA, Hadoop, Snowflake databases
Linux, Azure environment, Azure Machine Learning, Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala)

Masters degree is required (PhD is preferrable)

Nice to have
1. In addition to the above, identify new challenges that can be solved using the data.
2. Generate new innovative ideas that can potentially add value to the organization
3. Prior experience in publishing research articles at academic conferences

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. Weve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know were all in this together.

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