Engineering Team Lead

Job Description
Position Type :
Full time Type Of Hire :
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education) Education Desired :
Bachelor's Degree Travel Percentage :
1 - 5%
Job Description
GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Employ machine learning and statistical modeling to create and enhance data driven products
• Analyze and extract insights from internal and external data
• Work with Big Data and transform complex datasets into more usable formats
• Work with a variety of data science tools and programming languages such as SAS, Python, R, Scala, SQL
• Work independently and collaborate with other groups to solve complex problems
• Create and present analyses to internal and external partners and clients
• Document models and write code to track and monitor models and product performance
• Understand the realities of model development and make pragmatic and business-aware choices when trading-off sophistication and accuracy versus implementation and performance costs
• Other related duties assigned as needed
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Masters or PhD in Statistics, Decision Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Economics or Computer Science or the equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES
• Knowledge in machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistical modeling, data visualization, and data analysis
• Proficient in data science tools and programming languages such as SAS, Python, R, Scala, SQL
• Experience or knowledge of cloud-based technology
• Knowledge of financial services industry
• Ability to collaborate with others and solve complex problem
• Proficiency in solutions design and requirements
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, team, and time management skills
• Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach
• Positive outlook, strong work ethic, and responsive to internal and external clients and contacts
• Ability to work as part of a team or alone making a strong contribution in either scenario
• Exceptional statistical, mathematical and analytical skills
• Superior interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Delivery-oriented team player who takes responsibility for the team’s success and strives to continually learn and improve
• Ability to interface with all levels of employees and effectively interact with various functional areas and facilities
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, management, and clients
FIS JOB LEVEL DESCRIPTION
Expert career, individual contributor role. Highly experienced professional with broad experience and unique knowledge. Works independently with only administrative supervision on highly complex projects with extensive latitude for independent judgment. Able to autonomously manage highly complex quantitative projects, involving multiple team members. Can liaise effectively with the wider organization/client where necessary. Expected to be primary mentor for others on staff and is a role model for rest of team providing direction and training when requested. Serves as a subject-matter-expert for complex quantitative inquiries received from internal support functions on quantitative analysis and finance. Ability to provide communication on issues or complex information to a wide audience based on knowledge. Participates as a senior member of the team in strategic planning and direction. As a subject matter expert, this role promotes financial engineering solutions internally and externally. expected to support the process of selling FIS’ solutions to prospects and developing our relationships with clients. Responsible for developing, documenting, and implementing standards, guidelines, direction, and education on process/procedures for staff. Assigned to the most highly visible, sensitive, and critical issues. Typically requires a minimum of seven years’ experience of programming mathematical models. Barriers to entry, senior management review required.
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Sourcing Model
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