Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Northampton

Grade: AVP

Responsible for owning, defining, implementing and operationalizing data products at scale

Your Role

• Own one or more data science use cases end-to-end from data discovery to operationalizing
• Help build best-in-class development architecture, standards, best practices for Machine learning
• Understand the business domain, define the scope, prepare and draft success criteria, failure criterion and initial hypothesis for the use case
• Conceptualize and quickly build POC on new product ideas - should perform either as an individual contributor or lead a team of data scientists and data engineers
• Open to learn, implement newer tools\products
• Experiment & identify best methods\techniques, algorithms for analytical problems
• Operationalize - Work closely with the engineering, infrastructure, service management and business teams to operationalize use cases. Ensure end-to-end automation including quality checks on models running in production
• Present analytical plan and results to wide stakeholders

Essential Skills

• Degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science or related scientific disciplines with excellent ML experience
• Hands-on experience in running various methods like Regression, Random forest, k-NN, k-Means, boosted trees, SVM, Neural Network, text mining, NLP, statistical modelling, data mining, exploratory data analysis, statistics (hypothesis testing, descriptive statistics)
• Experience and understanding of Big Data ecosystem with technologies like Spark/PySpark, MapReduce, Kafka, Hive etc. Experience in UNIX scripting and NoSQL

Desirable Skills

• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders and convert abstract ideas into actionable requirements

• Ability to work with ambiguous situations and uncertainty

• Good presentation skills - Should be able to present findings and insights in a manner understandable to business

About Us

Barclays is a transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the US. Our goal is to become the bank of choice by providing superior services to customers and clients and supporting our stakeholders via a commercially successful business that generates long-term sustainable returns.

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Risk and Control Objective

All Barclay's colleagues have to ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

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Barclays Values & Diversity

Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager. We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.