Data Scientist

**Requisition ID**: 227536

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

**Purpose**

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Data Science role contributes to the overall success of the Fraud Management Group Globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed/delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensure all activities conducted are within compliance of governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

**Accountabilities**
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Collaborate with stakeholders including Operations, Analytics and Data Science partners, as well as Scotia Digital and IT&S partners to identify opportunities and drive business value in reducing fraud risks by leveraging Data Science
- Leverage distributed computing tools (e.g. Beam, BigQuery, Hive, Spark) for analysis, data mining and modeling
- Collaborate with technology / engineering, analytics, and operational teams to deploy fraud detection and prevention models and algorithms in production across different products and channels
- Prepare detailed documentation to outline data sources, models and algorithms used and developed
- Present results to business line stakeholders and help implement real data-driven changes
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be incorporate into in day-to-day activities and decisions.
- Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
- Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

**Dimensions**
- Relationship with all the employees of Scotiabank Uruguay, Scotiatech and the Bank.
- Information Security Standards and frameworks (ISO27001, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS)
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Technology (Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Datacenter)
- Application Security.

**Education / Experience / Other Information**
- Experience with machine learning, statistical techniques, as well as model testing and validation
- Experience cleaning, transforming and visualizing large data sets working with various data formats (e.g. unstructured logs, XML, JSON, flat files, audio, image)
- Solid SQL skills for querying relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, DB2, MySQL)
- Programming skills in Python, Java or Scala
- Hands-on experience with Big Data ecosystem tools (e.g., Beam, BigQuery, Hive, Spark) preferred
- Experience with UNIX tools and shell scripting preferred
- Expertise with Docker or Kubernetes is an asset
- Experience with various services on Google Cloud Platform is an asset
- Experience with Deep Learning architectures like RNNs and CNNs is highly desirable
- Experience using and implementing visualization tools is an asset
- Knowledge of industry trends regarding fraud and experience in fraud detection and prevention is an asset
- Experience working with cross-functional team in an Agile environment is an asset
- Bilingual English/Spanish language skills (B2 English level)
- ** Must to have**:

- 8+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Must be a leader with excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills to build consensus and obtain co-operation from development teams and technology engineering leaders.
- Disciplined in development methodology and familiar with software development technologies and concepts.
- Knowledge of object-oriented programming and other programming paradigms
- Knowledge and experience using software design patterns
- Knowledge of architectural styles
- Experience with defining and governing the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience designing and implementing APIs
- Proficiency in English at a minimum of B2 level
- Proficiency in one of the following: JS-TS React, Java, Kotlin, Node, Python, Native Applications, or equivalent.
- B1 level of English.
- ** Soft sklills**:

- Expert analytical and conceptual thinking skills, using creativity and attention to detail to develop testing solutions that help proactively uncover issues, find bugs and assess product with the end user in mind.
- Strategic thinking ability enabling the selection of optimal testing solutions (smart vs mass testing)
- The individual requires superior oral and written communication skills and proven ability to: make prese