Data Scientist

NAVEX; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Growth

Flexible Work Time

Competitive Pay

Wellbeing Programs

Job summary

NAVEX is seeking a Data Scientist to join their Product Engineering team in Charlotte, NC. In this role, you will leverage machine learning and statistical modeling to address business challenges, contributing significantly to our risk and compliance management platform.

The ideal candidate will have a Master’s degree in a relevant field and over 5 years of data science experience, working with machine learning techniques and developing impactful algorithms. The compensation for this role starts at $140,000 annually.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a data scientist with specialization in machine learning.
• Strong knowledge of predictive modeling and statistics.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large sets of Risk and Compliance data.
• Design and develop machine learning models.
• Collaborate with other data scientists for integrating insights.

Skills

Machine Learning

Statistical Modeling

Data Analysis

Predictive Modeling

Python

R

SQL

TensorFlow

Visualization Tools

Education

Master’s degree in Data Science, Applied Economics, Statistics, or STEM field

Tools

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

Power BI

ggplot

d3.js

Spark

Job description

At NAVEX you will join our Product Engineering team that shares a passion for designing quality solutions, embracing new technologies and delivering powerful products within our integrated risk and compliance management platform that help our customers protect their reputation and bottom line. We are changing the way people experience life at work!

As a Data Scientist, you will be expected to create innovative solutions to solve business problems by using machine learning, statistical modeling and optimization techniques and turning them into real world solutions for decision making. You will design algorithms that solve business critical problems for the world’s largest risk and compliance platform. You will see your contributions make a material impact to business culture. If you want to use cutting-edge machine learning techniques with technology that drives crucial decisions, this role is for you.

We Offer You:

• An Inspiring Culture. Invested teammates, belonging groups, and a socially determined culture
• Meaningful Work. Innovative products and solutions with real life impact for people and organizations
• Career Growth. Stellar training and an unwavering commitment to your growth and success
• Life Flexibility. Time to care for yourself, your loved ones, and your community
• Industry Leadership. A highly reputable, fast growing and consistently profitable organization
• Real Rewards. Competitive and transparent pay practices, wellbeing programs and benefits with choice

What You Will Do:

• Analyze large sets of Risk and Compliance data to understand core domain behavior
• Design, develop, train, validate, deploy and monitor machine learning models
• Develop a clear and complete plan of action through collaboration, probing, reflecting, and summarizing of the solution
• Elaborate on alternative product configurations, platforms, and implementation issues
• Participate in various training opportunities to invest in your technical knowledge, skills, and methods to provide innovative solutions
• Analyze risks and benefits of various approaches to solve technical problems
• Communicate problems to appropriate stakeholders when necessary, understanding who to bring in for assistance
• Understand upstream and downstream dependencies and connections of a problem between applications and platforms
• Collaborate with other data scientists and team members to ensure the seamless integration of data-driven insights into our products and services

What You Will Need:

• Master’s degree in Data Science, Applied Economics, Statistics, or STEM field with sufficient overlap in explanatory analysis, predictive modeling, data treatments and coding
• 5+ years’ experience as a data scientist or in another predictive modeling job with specialization in machine learning, statistical modeling and optimization
• Strong knowledge of predictive modeling, statistics and data science in general, with an interest in continuing education
• Experience with machine learning methods including transformer based models, deep neural networks, reinforcement learning, adversarial learning, decision tree based models, and/or classical models such as logistic, non-parametric, and other regression based models
• Experience interacting with large language models and building model pipelines preferred
• Desired experience in visualization tools such as ggplot, d3.js, Matplottlib, and Power BI
• Proficiency in one or multiple data science programming languages such as Python, R and Spark, as well as SQL
• Knowledge of data manipulation and analysis tools, such as Pandas, NumPy, or dplyr
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a commitment to collaborate with people across a variety of levels with diverse backgrounds

We believe each member of our team deserves to see a path forward to achieving their career and financial goals.

• Each team member is required to have a career plan in place and reviewed with their manager after six months with our team.
• The starting pay for this role is $140,000 per annum with 5% MBO.
• Pay progression is based on performance.

Our pay programs are just one element of our commitment to Be the ONE place you want to thrive in life. Check out NAVEX’s career page to learn about our innovative people programs designed to create one powerful life experience for YOU!