Senior AI Data Scientist

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Join our AI Innovation Lab in Wexford, Ireland, as a Senior AI Data Scientist, and drive the development of cutting-edge AI solutions for Equifax UK&I. You will be instrumental in shaping our data and insights strategy, leading key projects, and providing technical and strategic expertise. Play a key role in the AI Innovation Lab. This role demands strong AI and machine learning skills, a passion for innovation, and the ability to mentor and lead within a collaborative team.

• Utilize combined knowledge of data structures, analytics, algorithms/models, and strong computer science fundamentals to independently prepare datasets, conduct analytics, and develop deployable solutions
• Collect, analyse and interpret large data assets to define and build multiple innovative solution components leveraging business and technical expertise. Support the analytical strategy by understanding critical technical capabilities and suggesting opportunities. Lead the development of projects with multiple deliverables, leveraging business and technical expertise
• Work on high-complexity tasks in problems often within multiple business or analytical domains, collaborating with other teams to develop predictive models, risk assessments, fraud detection, recommendation engines, etc.
• Package, summarize, visualize and perform storytelling on analytical findings and results for management and business users
• Communicate results to external stakeholders and mid level leadership, able to communicate the business impact of work
• Evaluate the technical work of peer and junior data scientists, guiding them on deliverable quality and accuracy
• Consistently deliver moderately to highly complex projects on time and against key metrics, with quality and speed
• Drive excellent execution by using experience and knowledge to complete work efficiently and suggesting opportunities for improvement
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency, agility and grit
• Organize own work independently, aligning with the leader's expectations to deliver winning results

• BS degree in a STEM major or equivalent discipline
• 5-7 years of experience in a related analytical role
• Proven track record of designing and developing predictive models in real-world applications
• Experience with model performance evaluation and predictive model optimization for accuracy and efficiency
• Cloud certification strongly preferred
• Additional role-based certifications may be required depending upon region/BU requirements
• Aplies a new perspective on existing solutions to solve complex problems
• Makes decisions within guidelines and policies that impact a range of customer, operational, process, or project activities
• Develops work plans for short-term assignments of moderate or high complexity
• Solid experience in data analysis, machine learning, and AI development
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based AI platforms and tools
• Requires in-depth knowledge and experience needed to operate independently with limited guidance and oversight

• Passion for data science, data mining, machine learning and experience with big data architectures and methods
• A Masters degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Economics)
• Experience with specific AI techniques, such as neural networks or natural language processing
• Knowledge of the financial services industry
• Contributions to open-source AI projects
• Experience with data visualization tools
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Good communication and presentation and visualization skills

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland 1 week ago