Principal Data Scientist

$170,373 - $210,000/Yr

Octus - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets. The role involves building pipelines for data acquisition, utilizing various frameworks for data processing, and implementing data-driven solutions through machine learning and text analysis. The position also includes mentoring junior team members and collaborating with different business units to identify automation opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Build pipelines for data acquisition by writing code for querying huge amounts of unstructured textual data from various data sources.
• Utilize frameworks like XML, rjson, pdftools in R to parse & process data from different sources & formats.
• Devise & implement processes for data preprocessing & assessment of data quality.
• Leverage frameworks in R for text analysis & natural language processing.
• Execute defined frameworks for projects requiring data-driven solutions.
• Conceptualize & build supervised &/or unsupervised models from structured &/or unstructured text data.
• Generate static & interactive data visualizations using frameworks & tools.
• Review, evaluate, & communicate recommendations on modeling techniques & results.
• Deploy models in real-time by writing production-level code.
• Collaborate with different business units to identify areas for data science automation.
• Mentor & lead new & junior members of the team.
• Formulate & implement ideas at the intersection of distressed debt investing & data science.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Data Science.
• 4 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• 2 years of experience as a Data Scientist or similar role.
• 2 years of experience as an Analyst or similar role.

Benefits

• Competitive health benefits.
• Matched 401k and pension plans.
• PTO.
• Generous parental leave.
• Gym subsidies.
• Educational reimbursements for career development.
• Recognition programs.
• Pet-friendly offices (US only).