Data Scientist

WSECU • Olympia, WA

13d • $113,119 - $169,679 • Hybrid

About The Position

WSECU is seeking a talented Data Scientist to synthesize and leverage our extensive datasets to enhance products and services, ultimately making members' financial lives easier. This role involves continually challenging current best practices in how products and services meet members' financial needs. The position is part of a new, multidisciplinary team focused on high-impact projects using big data analytics and machine learning to improve financial well-being within the Credit Union industry.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in one of the following areas: econometrics, operations research, applied statistics, machine learning, hard science or engineering, or related quantitative discipline.
• Demonstrated understanding of the financial and economic levers that impact WSECU’s business performance.
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills and the ability to effectively utilize techniques to derive insights.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate operational and technical issues to a wide variety of audiences at all organizational levels – must have strong data storytelling abilities.
• Expertise in one of the following: econometric modeling; statistical and predictive modeling; machine-learning approaches such as; clustering and classification techniques, recommendation and optimization algorithms.
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills including the writing of executive and board level reports, human relation skills and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively to many levels of staff internally as well as outside individuals and vendors outside the organization with the ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
• Must reside and perform all work in the state of Washington.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Programming and/or scripting languages a plus. Python strongly preferred.
• Postgraduate school experience delivering world-class data science outcomes (2+ years preferred).

Responsibilities

• Working with end-users and analysts to model complex problems, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, algorithmic, and visualization techniques.
• Modeling and framing business scenarios that are meaningful and have a direct impact on critical business processes and/or decisions.
• Interviewing end-users to determine requirements for data, reports, analysis, and performance.
• Helping build WSECU’s capability and strategy (short term and long term) to understand and assess new products, and evaluate the success of existing products and services.
• Distilling insights from member data that address key business challenges and provide actionable recommendations.
• Solving business problems and finding patterns and insights within structured and unstructured data.
• Developing and communicating data insights and recommendations in a clear and concise manner (i.e., data-driven change management).
• Providing expertise on mathematical concepts for the broader applied Analytics and Insights team and inspiring the adoption of advanced analytics and data science across the entire organization.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance with Premiums options covered by WSECU
• Full-Time Regular employees accrue general leave and sick leave, on a monthly basis
• Part-Time employees accrue general leave, on a monthly basis
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Employer paid Long Term Disability & Long-Term Care plan for Full-Time employees
• Employer paid Long Term Care plan for Part-Time employees
• 401(K) with 8.5% Contribution by WSECU to begin 1st quarter after 1 year of service
• Paid Volunteer Leave
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program & Employee Discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior