Data Scientist III (HYBRID-Minneapolis)

Are you looking for a Client Facing Data Scientist role to help drive innovation in the fraud detection space?

About the role; As a collaborative Data Scientist you will use and suggest new tools to optimize models and policies leveraging thousands of data points from the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network as well as other LexisNexis Risk Solutions products on the Dynamic Decision Platform.

About the team; This client facing team is driving evidence-based solutions to help our clients make more informed decisions and help mitigate risk.

About the Business
 LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics, decisioning tools and data management services that help them solve problems, make better decisions, stay compliant, reduce risk and improve operations. Headquartered in metro-Atlanta, Georgia it operates within the Risk market segment of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: Be a thought leader on analytical projects for existing and prospective customers across industries and our product suite. Your analytical expertise will help drive new initiatives to show value to existing customers and drive new revenue.
• Analytics: Use and suggest new tools to optimize models and policies leveraging thousands of data points from the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network as well as other LexisNexis Risk Solutions products on the Dynamic Decision Platform.
• Consulting: Scope, plan and deliver customer focused projects including proof of values, proactive analytics, go-lives, optimizations, and custom models.
• Innovation: Inspire and support research that further improves the capabilities and tools available within the team. (Recent examples include design of a globally adopted genetic algorithm, feature engineering over cellphone sensor data, centralized code repository, network analysis over UK banking industry). Experience with Git and Jira to help guide and scope these research projects are required.
• Presentation: Clearly explain complex patterns of behavior using data and models in a simple manner to non-technical audiences. Help other resources on the team by providing guidance on how to simplify and present complex analyses.
• Best Practice: Develop and maintain strong best practices for the team to further scale and grow and help streamline deliverables.
• Collaborate: Collaboration with LexisNexis Risk Solutions teams including Products, Engineering, Sales and your colleagues to continually share and redefine best practices and help shape and improve our products.

What you’ll be doing

• Stay ahead of the industry trends by continuously thinking of new ways to apply our tools and solutions to customer problems across different industries. Help the team by thinking outside the box.
• Scope, plan, and deliver on customer analytical requests. Be a leader on the team to help with more complex analytics and difficult customer problems
• Use your strong knowledge of SQL, Python, Excel and LUA plus quantitative skills to deliver insight which will help capture evolving fraudster behaviors. Ability to quickly learn and teach about new tools to help the team with their deliverables
• Be constantly curious and have strong problem-solving skills to help transform uncertainty into value-add opportunities for our customers
• Use your strong attention to detail and ability to craft a story through data, delivering industry-leading presentations for external and executive audiences
• Leverage BI tools to identify and respond to anomalies and emerging industry trends (e.g. SuperSet, PowerBI, Snowflake, CoPilot, Jupyter)
• Build an extensive knowledge of cybercrime and become an SME for all industries that we support (Financial Services, E-commerce, Gaming, Telecommunications)
• Promote the team by writing blogs, representing the team at conferences
• Employ your multi-tasking and prioritization skills to excel in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing customer priorities

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions is supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:​

• Mentoring scheme for women in technology,​
• Women’s network forum, regularly run events for schools about careers in technology to inspire the next generation of girls in technology.​

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
● Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
● Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
● Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
● Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
● Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
● Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
● In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

Posting start date: 1/15/2025. We anticipate this posting will be posted  for 30 days.

The position is eligible for base salary plus an annual bonus.

The salary range provided in this posting is the base salary range for Minnesota 90,000-100,300 USD

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At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups. 

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