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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Data Science Consultant within the Enterprise Complaints Remediations, (ECR) organization. The Lead Data Science Consultant is responsible for owning the full-cycle of data analytics including identifying issues and opportunities, mining and analyzing data, building ad-hoc or preliminary use models and algorithms to determine data patterns or trends, and delivering meaningful insights, recommendations, and hypothesis generation.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives by utilizing data-driven, advanced analytical, statistical techniques, algorithms, or models to make actionable insights, trends, recommendations, including those that are cross-functional with broad impact acting as key participant in large-scale planning

• Review and analyze complex, multi-faceted, larger-scale, or longer-term business, operational, or technical challenges that require in-depth hypothesis generation and advanced analysis of multiple parts, including intangibles or unprecedented factors

• Make decisions in complex and multi-faceted situations requiring an expertise in analytical thinking to resolve abstract business issues that influence and lead broader work team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives

• Strategically collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level to senior managers to drive recommendations and strategies based on data driven, analytical insights, trends, and patterns that will resolve issues and achieve goals; may lead projects, teams or serve as a peer mentor

• Execute complex analytical experiments and create innovative statistical models to discover solutions for abstract business problems across various domains

• Interpret and analyze data, using advanced analytics modeling methods and programming, to recommend ways to solve problems and influence business decisions and strategies

• Provide consultation to peers on data science best practices, methods, and tools to leverage

• Communicate actionable insights and recommendations using data in a digestible format to a non-technical audience of varying levels

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of data science experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics, economics, or computer science

Desired Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with Python

• 4 years of experience with SAS, Teradata, PySpark, SQL, and Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Large Language Model (LLM) experience.

• 2 years of experience with model development and model validation experience. 

• Ability to leads or assist on end-to-end model build efforts from discovery to deployment.

• Experience working with technology partners and model governance​.

• Communicates project progress and obstacles.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex material to a diverse audience.

• Performs pre-/post-model testing, including explain-ability, robustness, fairness testing, etc.

• Shepherds model from discover to deployment including post-validation activities.

• Documents model development in MDD.

• Conducts ongoing monitoring and reviews.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

• Ability to work on site per Wells Fargo's standard operating model in one of the listed locations.

Pay Range New York, NY: 133,300.00 - 237,100.00 USD Annual - This range may not be applicable to other locations.

Pay Range

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides all eligible full- and part-time employees with a comprehensive set of benefits designed to protect their physical and financial health and to help them make the most of their financial future. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Careers for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• 401(k) Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave
• Critical Caregiving Leave
• Discounts and Savings
• Health Benefits
• Commuter Benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption Reimbursement

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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