Description

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Senior Data Scientist for its Johnston, RI location.

Duties: Utilize advanced statistical, programming, and ML knowledge to deliver state-of-the-art financial AI/ML products for business stakeholders. Engage business stakeholders to identify opportunities for model development. Lead product and development demonstrations; maintain relationship with business stakeholders. Work with senior AI/ML leadership to plan model development and deployment. Plan, lead and mentor day-to-day development efforts of junior colleagues. Utilize big-data tools to munge and engineer terabytes of financial data at different granularities.

Requirements: Master’s degree in Data Science, Mathematics, or directly related quantitative discipline. Must possess the following skills, gained either through industry experience or graduate level academic studies: Utilizing relational database and statistical analysis programming languages and software, including SQL and Python, to extract high-volume and complex data to perform related analyses; Developing predictive models by implementing advanced data analysis and research techniques, including data quality checks, remedy techniques, statistical analysis, and inferences, data exploration analysis, data imputation, time series analysis, regression analysis, classification analysis, supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, formulating assumptions, and distilling business problems into analytical problems; Utilizing mathematical principles behind statistical methods to evaluate and interpret the results of predictive models reasonably; Utilizing advanced statistical programming using tools in Python to create complex reports and graphs to illustrate analysis; Conducting optimization tests, including feature selections, cross-validation, threshold selection, and hyperparameters tuning, using Python and data science tools; and Leveraging big data and machine learning algorithms like ensemble trees and regression techniques to build models and measure model outcomes using key machine learning metrics, including AUC, average precision, precision and recall.

May telecommute from any U.S. location.

Direct applicants only.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens), provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability, or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, transgendered and transitioning individuals, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and where all are expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on experience, performance, and ability. We perform our best so we can do more for our customers, colleagues, communities and shareholders.

Why Work for Us

At Citizens, you'll find a customer-centric culture built around helping our customers and giving back to our local communities. When you join our team, you are part of a supportive and collaborative workforce, with access to training and tools to accelerate your potential and maximize your career growth

Background Check

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.

03/04/2025