Verafin - Senior Data Scientist

As a part of the AI Analytics team, this role leverages Verafin’s vast quantity of data to innovate solutions to key business problems. In this role, you will use your technical ability to solve non-routine analysis problems, generating insights to support business goals and product development.

You will identify opportunities for improvement and demonstrate effectiveness of solutions through a data-driven, scientific approach. The results of your work will help Verafin detect and prevent financial fraud and money laundering, helping accomplish the company’s purpose: to fight crime! 
 

Role Responsibilities 

• Analyze real and experimental data to derive quantitative insights 

• Contribute to data science initiatives through the identification of problems, design of solutions, and development of prototypes used to validate outcomes 

• Devise solutions for a variety of non-routine analysis problems 

• Work with talented, knowledge-driven individuals and share your ideas across the team 

• Assist with data-driven decisions based on project outcomes 

• Willingness to ask for help, learn from, and mentor others 

Essential Skills and Qualifications 

• A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or another quantitative discipline 

• Proficient with SQL, Java, Python, and major Python data science libraries 

• Experience with Simulation techniques or generation of synthetic data 

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to explain technical concepts to an audience of varying technical backgrounds; able to create meaningful data visualizations 

• Comprehensive understanding of statistical and mathematical techniques used in data science 

• Strong analytical skills and creativity to solve complex problems 

Experience in any of the following areas would be considered an asset: 

• Experience in the banking or financial domain 

• Supervised and unsupervised machine learning 

• Optimization and evolutionary algorithms 

• Numerical analysis and convergence testing 

• Research experience demonstrated through a record of publishing papers in academic journals or conferences