Sr Data Scientist-Credit Ops Analytics
Company: Vistra Corporate Services Company
Location: Irving
Posted on: May 17, 2023
Job Description:
If you have what it takes to become part of the Vistra family
and would like to start a promising career with a global leader,
take a look at the exciting employment opportunities that are
currently available and apply online.Job SummaryThe Sr. Data
Scientist - Credit/Analytics would be a business oriented, results
driven, self-starter individual contributor, who would take
end-to-end ownership of achieving business objectives through the
development, application, and deployment of advanced analytics
models. In order to succeed in this role, the applicant should be a
very strong team player, eager to take on challenges and
responsibility of increasing complexity, be fully accountable for
business outcomes, able to successfully complete analytics projects
within time with the business outcome in mind, apply scientific
rigor to analyses and models, be able to improvise and solve
problems in the absence of perfect data, be able to simplify and
communicate complex results to key business stakeholders via
presentation and visualization tools. Excellent communication,
project/time management and inter-personal skills are vital to
success in this role.Job DescriptionKey Accountabilities
- Execute end-to-end advanced analytics solutions (predictive,
prescriptive models, machine learning algorithms, AI models) to
support/optimize solutions to business problems
- Lead advanced analytical initiatives to support key strategic
priorities and focus areas (customer retention, risk management,
complaint reduction, optimization of customer count vs. bad
debt)
- Demonstrate business value from their models and ensure that
stakeholders are aligned with the expected and actual results
- Assume end-to-end ownership of the value/impact of advanced
analytics projects
- Eager to learn, assimilate constructive feedback and grow
through roles of greater responsibility
- Must be an independent thinker, with a strong bias towards
action and avoiding analysis-paralysis
- Excellent attention to detail necessary
- Passionate about solving real business problems via advanced
analytics and data science
- Collaborates effectively with stakeholders to plan and
implement solutions
- Must have strong presentation and business writing skills
- Must be able to create effective documentationEducation,
Experience & Skill Requirements
- Master's degree or PhD in Mathematics, Machine learning,
Operations Research, Statistics, or a related discipline
- Relevant Experience: 5-7 years for master's degree candidates;
3-5 years for PhD candidates
- Strong time & project management skills
- Innovative problem solver who can handle both high breadth &
depth of advanced analytics problems
- Solid theoretical background in mathematics, statistics,
database technology mathematical optimization, graph algorithms and
related disciplines
- Strong computer programming skills in a high-level programming
language, preferably SAS, SQL, and Python
- Strong experience building original and impactful models with
one or more tools for creating predictive/machine
learning/operations research models, refined via professional
experience, PhD research, collaboration in an impactful open-source
project or a well-known predictive modeling open competitionJob
FamilyCorp Dev & PlanningCompanyTXU Retail Services
CompanyLocationsIrving, TexasTexasWe are a company of people
committed to: Exceeding Customer Expectations, Great People,
Teamwork, Competitive Spirit and Effective Communication. If this
describes you, then apply today!If you currently work for Vistra or
its subsidiaries, please apply via the internal career site. It is
the policy of the Company to comply with all employment laws and to
afford equal employment opportunity to individuals in all aspects
of employment, including in selection for job opportunities,
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability,
genetic information, military service, protected veteran status, or
any other consideration protected by federal, state or local
laws.
Keywords: Vistra Corporate Services Company, Irving , Sr Data Scientist-Credit Ops Analytics, Other , Irving, Texas
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