Principal Data Scientist- Generative AI

Citizens Bank - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

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About the position

The Generative AI Principal Data Scientist at Citizens Bank will lead innovative projects that integrate advanced AI technologies with commercial insights. This role focuses on leveraging Generative AI to enhance services for commercial customers while continuously researching emerging techniques for practical application. The position is pivotal in evolving the bank's AI platforms and making a significant impact on its operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagement with business partners to identify, prioritize, and translate business objectives to solutions ensuring alignment between technical development and business goals
• Lead the design and execution of GenAI experiments, developing robust methodologies and evaluating model performance to drive innovation and ensure scalable, high-impact solutions
• Parse and manipulate raw, complex data streams to prepare for loading into an analytical tool; delve into complex data from systems to discover hidden relationships and useful information
• Implement data formulation processes, including identification of attributes, exploratory data analysis, data transformation, and temporal data structures
• Perform hands-on text analysis
• Apply best available practices for artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Work with the solution development team to define and implement data management, analytics, and user interface
• Provide guidance to and direct the efforts of other Data Scientists

Requirements

• 7+ years of work experience in developing production grade models
• 2+ years of experience working in a data science capacity within commercial banking or capital markets, with a strong understanding of commercial data and products
• Proficient with commercial banking data and products and ability to interpret complex commercial financial statements and data sets
• Profound expertise in data science, including a strong foundation in NLP and Generative AI technologies like RAG, Advanced Prompting, Evaluation, etc.
• Experience in machine learning, data mining, deep learning, and statistical methodology; demonstrated experience using these techniques to solve business problems
• Proficiency in computer science or related discipline, coding in Python
• Strong experience working with large quantities of data, excellent SQL skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to convey actionable and understandable business intelligence
• Passion for collaboration and working with and inspiring cross-functional teams

Nice-to-haves

• Working across multiple AI/ML services on AWS services
• Experience with distributed data/computing tools: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, MySQL, etc

Benefits

• Customer-centric culture
• Access to training and tools for career growth
• Supportive and collaborative workforce