Lead, Data Science Analyst

Responsibilities

• Identify high impact opportunities where a model or data-related solution can provide large leverage.
• Design, build, validate, implement, monitor, and improve data science solutions.
• Evaluate new data sources, technologies, and model-building techniques.
• Develop algorithmic solutions to automate income verification.
• Promote best practices for model development and software design.
• Communicate and collaborate with cross-functional partners.
• Work with third-party vendor partners to evaluate data and products and integrate promising ones into data science practices and platforms.
• Develop testing & control procedures to ensure execution accuracy and effective post-implementation monitoring.
• Unlock insights from non-traditional data sources such as information from other industries, tax data, deposit data, demographic data, and digital data.

Requirements

• Proven experience with data analysis and coding equivalent to 3+ years of experience working as a data scientist.
• Applied experience with a variety of modeling techniques like regression, boosted decision trees, deep learning, NLP, and so forth.
• Strong software development skills covering design, algorithms, optimization, testing, and source control.
• Hands-on experience with building self-contained solutions with clear interfaces.
• Demonstrable mathematical and algorithmic aptitude.
• Outstanding communication skills with the comfort to interact with all levels with clarity and at an appropriate level of detail.
• Able to identify and convey the essential information in every communication.
• Able to understand the business intent behind every project and tell the story around it.
• Willingness to propose and defend ideas.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams across a large, multi-stakeholder organization.
• Able to work with a high degree of autonomy: can resolve or escalate issues appropriately; can fill in the gaps when requirements are incomplete.
• Able to work with teams of diverse individuals focused on several disparate projects simultaneously.
• Risk management mindset: Can foresee risks and potential points of failure in a data science system and appropriately mitigate or manage them.
• Can anticipate weaknesses in models, software, and systems.
• Uses defensive practices to build robust products (e.g. testing, code review).
• Minimizes surface area for failure (develops around clear interfaces, uses well-understood tools, minimizes external dependencies).
• Prepares for the unexpected (fails fast with clear error messages, develops failure contingency plans).
• Understands the importance of monitoring production systems and setting up clear alert systems.
• Balance the tradeoffs between using cutting-edge enterprise systems vs. simple and familiar tooling.

Who We Are

OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF) is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. Since 1912, we’ve looked beyond credit scores to help people get the money they need today and reach their goals for tomorrow. Our growing suite of personal loans, credit cards and other products help people borrow better and work toward a brighter future. Driven collaborators and innovators, our team thrives on transformative digital thinking, customer-first energy and flexible work arrangements that grow lives, careers and our company. At every level, we’re committed to an inclusive culture, career development and impacting the communities where we live and work. Getting people to a better place has made us a better company for over a century. There’s never been a better time to shine with OneMain. Benefits Because team members at their best means OneMain at our best, we provide opportunities and benefits that make their health and careers a priority. That’s why we’ve packed our comprehensive benefits package for full- and some part-timers with:

• Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances.
• Up to 4% matching 401(k) Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount).
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year).
• Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance, prorated based on start date.
• Paid holidays (11 days per year, based on start date).
• Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date).