Data Scientist

Its fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what theyre doing!

Were committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
 

At NAVEX, we’re making the world a better place. A safer place. A more ethical place. A place where anyone, anywhere can have a voice. That’s a serious impact.

You will join our Product Engineering team that shares a passion for designing quality solutions, embracing new technologies and delivering powerful products within our integrated risk and compliance management platform that help our customers protect their reputation and bottom line.  We are changing the way people experience life at work!

As a Data Scientist, you will be expected to create innovative solutions to solve business problems by using machine learning (ML), statistical modeling and optimization techniques and turning them into real world solutions for decision making. You will design algorithms that solve business critical problems for the world’s largest risk and compliance platform.  You will see your contributions make a material impact to business culture. If you want to use cutting-edge machine learning techniques with technology that drives crucial decisions, this role is for you.

What you’ll get: 

• Career growth. With market-leading training and an unwavering commitment to owning your career plan, you can grow your career to new heights.

• Real rewards. We offer competitive and transparent pay practices, top-of-the-range wellbeing programs, and brilliant opt-in benefits. Because we believe companies should offer more than just a salary.

• Meaningful purpose. Our products and solutions have real-life impact on people and organizations across the globe. Our innovations make a difference.

• Life flexibility. We want you to bring your best self to work every day. We understand that you can only do that with quality time to care for yourself, your loved ones and your community.

• An inspiring culture. Find yourself surrounded by leaders that care, invested teammates, and like-minded groups where you’ll feel at home.

• Industry leadership. Play your part in a fast-growing organization known for excellence, profitability, and stability.

What you’ll do:

• Analyze large sets of Risk and Compliance data to understand core domain behavior

• Design, develop, train, validate, deploy and monitor ML models

• Develop a clear and complete plan of action through collaboration, probing, reflecting, and summarizing of the solution

• Elaborate on alternative product configurations, platforms, and implementation issues

• Participate in various training opportunities to provide innovative solutions

• Analyze risks and benefits of various approaches to solve technical problems

• Communicate problems to appropriate stakeholders when necessary, understanding who to bring in for assistance

• Understand upstream and downstream dependencies and connections of a problem between applications and platforms

• Collaborate with other data scientists and team members to ensure the seamless integration of data-driven insights into our products and services

What you’ll need:

• Master’s degree in Data Science, Applied Economics, Statistics, or STEM field with sufficient overlap in explanatory analysis, predictive modelling, data treatments and coding

• 5+ years’ experience as a data scientist or other predictive modelling with specialization in ML, statistical modelling and optimization

• Strong knowledge of predictive modelling, statistics and data science in general, with an interest in continuing education

• Experience with ML methods including transformer-based models, deep neural networks, reinforcement learning, adversarial learning, decision tree-based models, and/or classical models

• Experience interacting with large language models and building model pipelines preferred

• Desired experience in visualization tools (i.e.ggplot, d3.js, Matplottlib)

• Proficiency in Python and either Spark or SQL

• Knowledge of data manipulation and analysis tools (i.e. Pandas, NumPy)

• Familiarity with ML frameworks (i.e. TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn)

• Ability to drive results through your job competencies of decision making, technical aptitude and technical problem solving

• Ability to drive results through NAVEX core competencies of accountability, customer focus, drives results and instills trust

Our side of the deal: 

We believe everyone deserves to see their path forward, and the steps in place to achieve their career and financial goals. 

• Every team member is required to have a career plan in place, to be reviewed with their manager after six months in our team.

• The starting pay for this role is $140,000 per annum with 5% MBO.

• Pay progression based on your performance. 

We’re committed to helping you thrive in all aspects of your life. Our pay programs are just one element of this. Check out NAVEX’s career page to find out more information.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, including all disability and veteran status. 

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, youll enjoy your career with us!