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Equifax, Inc.

Data Scientist, Keying & Linking Team

Equifax, Inc., Alpharetta, Georgia, United States, 30239


Equifax is searching for a Data Scientist to join our world-class Entity Resolution/Keying & Linking team. As a Data Scientist, you will support our transformation of Entity Resolution capabilities to the Google Cloud and establish processes and practices for linking Equifax, partner and customer data to facilitate insights about businesses and the relationships between them. You will build experience developing analytical approaches to meet business requirements, which involves translating requests into use cases, developing data matching techniques, and building entity resolution rules and strategies. What you will do Work with key stakeholders and understand their needs, utilize combined knowledge of data structures, analytics, algorithms/models, and strong computer science fundamentals to develop new or improve existing Entity Resolution processes

Work in a cross-functional, matrix organization, at times under ambiguous circumstances

Leverage knowledge of data structures and algorithms to analyze and prepare data for analysis, assembling data from standard and new data sources

Support in the design and development of scalable solutions using large datasets within a cloud platform

Package, summarize and visualize analytical findings and present results and recommendations to internal and external customers

Experience in performing analysis using Google BigQuery, and other Google Cloud Platform technologies, Google DataFlow Scala+ Spark or PySpark is a plus

What experience you need Bachelors, Masters Degree in Data/Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or other related discipline. 2-5 years of experience in data science or relevant equivalent experience

1-2 years of experience with the development and usage of search, match and entity resolution, building Search systems, Data Matching, Master Data Management of large (multi-TB to PB), complex data sets

1-2 years of Shell scripting. Experience in Perl or Python programming, and SQL.

What could set you apart Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to design algorithms, which may include data cleaning, data mining, data clustering and pattern recognition methodologies

Cloud certification strongly preferred

Strong knowledge of credit bureau data

Experience or advanced degree with focus on Entity Resolution concepts, prototype or hand-on project. Background of Graph theory, AI/ML tools usage to solve large scale business problems

Experience in Data Visualization and storytelling

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