Lead Data Scientist

Company Overview

Zeta is a Next-Gen Banking Tech company that empowers banks and fintechs to launch banking products for the future. Founded in 2015 by Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati, Zeta's flagship processing platform, Zeta Tachyon, is the industry’s first modern, cloud-native, and fully API-enabled stack. It integrates issuance, processing, lending, core banking, fraud & risk, and more as a single-vendor stack.

• Global Reach: 15M+ cards issued on our platform globally.
• Clientele: Actively working with the largest Banks and Fintechs in multiple global markets, transforming customer experience for multi-million card portfolios.
• Team Size: Over 1700+ employees, with over 70% in R&D, across the US, EMEA, and Asia.
• Funding: Raised $280 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from Softbank, Mastercard, and other investors in 2021.

The Role

The Lead Data Scientist will be responsible for organizing and reporting data related to sales numbers, market research, logistics, linguistics, or other behaviors. They will utilize technical expertise to ensure data reported is accurate and high-quality. The data will need to be analyzed, designed, and presented in a way that assists individuals, business owners, and customer stakeholders to make better decisions.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate seamlessly with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to conceptualize, design, and construct data reporting and analytical systems.
• Ideation and Analysis: Generate ideas for exploratory analysis, actively shaping the trajectory of future projects. Provide insightful recommendations for strategic actions based on data-driven insights.
• Rapid Prototyping and Product Discussions: Drive the rapid prototyping of solutions, actively participating in discussions related to product and feature development.
• Dashboard Creation and Reporting: Develop dashboards and comprehensive documentation to effectively communicate results. Regularly monitor key data metrics, facilitating informed decision-making.
• Integration with Production Systems: Collaborate closely with software engineers to deploy and integrate data models into production systems. Ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency of integrated solutions.
• Business Metrics Identification: Identify and analyze key business metrics, offering strategic insights. Recommend product features based on the identified metrics to enhance overall product functionality.
• Understand and Manage Data Infrastructure: Lead the design and development of scalable, robust, and efficient data architectures. Oversee the development and maintenance of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to move and transform data from various sources into data warehouses or other storage solutions. Ensure data quality and integrity throughout the data pipeline.
• Team Leadership: Lead a team of data engineers and data analysts, providing mentorship, guidance, and technical expertise. Coach and manage a team to deliver using Agile processes and ensure high ROI. Participate actively in recruitment and nurturing of engineers.

Skills

• Quantitative and Problem-Solving: Exceptional quantitative and problem-solving skills – capable of tackling complex data-driven challenges and formulating effective solutions.
• Data Science Libraries: Proven proficiency in essential data science libraries, including Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, and Scikit-Learn, for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling.
• Programming Proficiency: In-depth expertise in Python programming and SQL, with a focus on data analysis, model building, and algorithmic implementation.
• Distributed Computing: Experience with distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop or Spark for handling large-scale data processing and machine learning tasks.
• Data Architecture: Experience in designing and implementing robust data architectures that support the organization's needs. This includes understanding different database systems, data lakes, and data warehouses.

Employment Type

Full-time

Location Type

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Salary

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Life At Zeta

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