Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

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

We offer comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, 401k matching, paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

Are you ready to power your possible? Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!

Primary Location:

USA-Atlanta JV White

Function:

Function - Data and Analytics

Schedule:

Full time