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Job Title: Software Engineer – Portfolio Monitoring Operations

Number of open positions: 1

Job Number: 1020025
Location: Chennai, India
Department: Technology and Engineering

Job Summary: We are looking for strong portfolio monitoring engineers, who will monitor our round the clock services, proactively automate various processes and generate various reports for business needs and provide data support for our customer care team.

Key Functional Areas of Responsibility:

• Generate and Monitor internal reports for the process flow
• Troubleshoot for various anomalies in applications, loan volume and systems in general
• Setting up alerts and escalation mechanism
• Technical support for customer care operations and direct customer queries
• Pro-actively automate various processes for seamless operations

Skills & Knowledge:

• BE/B Tech in Computer Science or in related Engineering fields or MCA/MSc
• 0-1 year of experience in software development
• Strong in Logic and in at least one Object Oriented programming language, preferably Python, and in query language, preferably using MySQL or equivalent.
• Willingness to work in flexible hours
• Ability to explore open source tools and a drive for continuous learning

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Data Scientist/Analyst

Number of open positions: 6

Job Summary: We are looking for strong Data Scientists/Analysts, who will be problem solvers, using predictive modelling techniques and machine learning algorithms, to solve complex business problems in credit and risk domains, and also provide business strategies.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Use of cutting edge machine learning techniques for solving supervised and unsupervised learning problems
• Design analytical solutions for complex business problems
• Dig deep into data, understand characteristics, evaluate and validate hypotheses through empirical approaches
• Recommend and implement best practices around application of statistical modelling
• Develop and implement predictive models solving business problems and recommend actionable insights
• Mentor and train new recruits

Qualification & Experience

• 2+ years of experience in the field of analytics, predictive modeling or data science
• Strong with programming languages like Python and data processing using SQL or equivalent
• Strong with analytical and statistical packages like R, Python Scikit-Learn
• Additional familiarity with C/C++ welcome
• Experience with the following machine learning algorithms desirable: Gradient Boosting, Decision Trees, Logistic Regression, Random Forests, Deep Neural Networks, Ensemble methods
• Experience with NoSQL and distributed data processing technologies such as Hadoop is also desirable
• Bachelor or Master in Operations Research, Computer Engineering or in closely related Quantitative Disciplines from a premier institution.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Junior Data Scientist/Data Analysts

Job Summary: We are looking for candidates to fill the role of (Junior or) Data Scientists/Data Analyst, with 0-2 years' experience, who will be problem solvers in credit and risk domains, marketing analytics and be part of the data science teams, supporting business requirements and initiatives.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design analytical solutions for complex business problems
• Dig deep into data, understand characteristics, evaluate and validate hypotheses through empirical approaches
• Develop and implement predictive models solving business problems and recommend actionable insights
• People new to the field and/or domain will spend their initial months in understanding data, do basic analysis and validation, reports, to get deeper understanding of the business.
• Candidates with prior relevant experience will work in development and implementation of predictive models and recommend actionable insights; they will use advanced machine learning techniques, among others, as per business requirements.

Qualification & Experience:

• 0-2 years of experience in the field of analytics, predictive modeling or data science
• Strong with programming languages like Python and data processing using SQL or equivalent
• Strong with analytical and statistical packages like R, Python Scikit-Learn
• Additional familiarity with C/C++ welcome
• Bachelor or Master in Operations Research, Computer Engineering or in closely related Quantitative Disciplines from a premier institution.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist

Number of open positions: 3

Job Summary: We are looking for a strong Senior Analyst/Senior Data Scientist, who will guide model development. The person will be part of data science team that continuously interacts with underwriting analysts and developers that drive solutions to the complex business problems, in credit and risk domains.

Roles and Responsibilities:

In addition to the responsibility of analyst/Data Scientist, additional responsibilities:

• Good understanding of the underlying business and workings of cross functional teams for successful execution.
• Good written and oral communication, and ability to convey technical details to teams working across multiple time zones.
• Mentor a small team of analysts.

Qualification & Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in the field of credit rist analytics, marketing analytics backgrounds
• Proven experience working in teams with end to end real time implementation
• Strong with programming languages like Python and data processing using SQL or equivalent and ability to experiment with newer open source tools
• Strong with analytical and statistical packages like R, Python Scikit-Learn
• Familiarity with deep learning, xgboost, scikit, apache spark, GPU based machine learning
• Good communication skills and ability to articulate complex scientific and technical matters to the business group
• Ability to successfully interact with business and software teams for execution
• Experience in newer machine learning algorithms
• Experience with NoSQL and distributed data processing technologies such as Hadoop is also desirable
• Experience in risk and credit score domains are a big plus
• Bachelor or Master in Operations Research, Computer Engineering or in closely related Quantitative Disciplines from a premier institution.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Test Engineer

Number of open positions: 1

Job Number: 1030026
Location: Chennai, India
Department: Technology and Engineering

Job Summary: We are looking for test engineers to do manual and automated testing of software developed in house using both Java and Python. This person should also be able to write and run test plans in either of the languages. At times, this person will also be involved in performing data validation or data testing.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop test cases and plans to test the current suite of products.
• Automate testing for appropriate parts of products.
• Collaborate with the Development team in root cause analysis.
• Log defects in issue system with clear and complete information.
• Be able to participate in scrum meetings and provide input to other stakeholders

Qualifications & Education Requirements:

• Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Computer Science/or related fields
• 3+ years' work experience in software testing.
• Experience with Selenium, HP tools, SOAP UI, etc.
• Understanding of Java, Python and to some extent .NET.
• Familiarity with Linux and scripting to support automated testing.
• Experience with performance/load/stress testing.
• Experience in testing web-based applications and middleware.
• Familiarity with test automation and analysis tools
• Experience with databases, especially Oracle and/or SQL Server preferred.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: User Interface Developer

Number of open positions: 7

Job Number: 1030027
Location: Chennai, India
Department: Technology and Engineering

Job Summary: We are looking for a very sharp UI developer well versed in developing consumer-facing websites using Python, Python based web framework and AngularJS. Experience in cross-browser and cross-device development is also extremely important for this role.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Conceives and models user interface prototypes based on collected user requirements, test cases, and developmental objectives.
• Designs high-level flow diagrams and GUI form charts for use in GUI specifications and architectures.
• Collaborates with business analysts, Web designers, and software developers to ensure prototypes can be efficiently implemented.
• Codes, installs, and debugs user interfaces using appropriate tools or editors
• Refines current GUI style standards, and keeps up to date on emerging GUI standards and trends.
• Identifies, recommends, and prioritizes new user interface features and applications in conjunction with end-user requirements or business needs.
• Diagnoses and troubleshoots problems with proprietary or internally-developed user interfaces.

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Computer Science/or related fields or Masters, from a premier college
• In-depth knowledge of GUI prototyping tools, software design, web technologies and protocols
• Proven experience in human-computer interaction and usability analysis
• Thorough understanding of application development methodologies
• Proven experience with cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility development issues
• 2+ years experience with the following – Python, Django, JavaScript, AngularJS
• Multi-platform OS (Windows/Mac/Linux)
• Ability to conduct research into emerging technologies and programming languages

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Java Developer

Number of open positions: 7

Job Number: 1030020
Location: Chennai, India
Department: Technology and Engineering

Job Summary: We are looking for a strong, well-rounded developer to improve design and upgrade a Decision Engine built using several technologies. The person will be part of Decision Engineering team that purposefully uses different programming languages for various functions, providing a service layer to communication with a web front-end and various third party data providers

• Designs, develops and documents company's proprietary decision engine using Java technologies.
• Works with a group of data scientists to build and deploy predictive models in languages like R and Python.
• Integrates the business decision logic into the ecosystem of the company's infrastructure to facilitate company operations.
• Integrates with Python based web front end and CloudLending (Salesforce.com based) CRM application.
• Periodically builds test systems to help validate new models as they emerge from our data science team
• Can interact with various other teams, including Marketing, Compliance, Technology, Data Scientists, Customer Service, etc.

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Computer Science/or related fields or Masters, from a premier college
• 2 to 6 years overall software development experience
• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Good Understanding of data structures & Algorithms
• Hands on multi-threading
• Experience in the Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience in developing web applications
• Experience with test-driven development

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Analyst

Number of open positions: 6

Job Number: 1020018
Location: Chennai, India
Department: Technology and Engineering

Job Summary: We are looking for strong Data Scientists/Analysts, who will be problem solvers, using predictive modelling techniques and machine learning algorithms, to solve complex business problems in credit and risk domains, and also provide business strategies.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Use of cutting edge machine learning techniques for solving supervised and unsupervised learning problems
• Design analytical solutions for complex business problems
• Dig deep into data, understand characteristics, evaluate and validate hypotheses through empirical approaches
• Recommend and implement best practices around application of statistical modelling
• Develop and implement predictive models solving business problems and recommend actionable insights
• Mentor and train new recruits

Qualification & Experience

• 2+ years of experience in the field of analytics, predictive modeling or data science
• Strong with programming languages like Python and data processing using SQL or equivalent
• Strong with analytical and statistical packages like R, Python Scikit-Learn, or SAS
• Additional familiarity with C/C++ welcome
• Experience with the following machine learning algorithms desirable: Gradient Boosting, Decision Trees, Logistic Regression, Random Forests, Deep Neural Networks, Ensemble methods
• Experience with NoSQL and distributed data processing technologies such as Hadoop is also desirable
• B. Tech/M. Tech in Computer Science or other Engineering (or Masters in Quantitative) Disciplines from a premier institution

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Senior Lead/Manager - Digital Campaign Management

Number of open positions: 1

Job Summary: We are looking for a strong digital marketing professional who will be responsible for entire digital campaign management. This position is Chennai based, but will be part of (and report to) San Diego based marketing team.

Job Function - Digital Campaign Management

• Ad Operations
• Campaign Management
• Ad Trafficking
• Advertising Platforms
• Demand Side Platforms
• Data onboarding
• Facebook Advertising and Campaign Management
• Google SEM

Skills And Requirements:

• 5 years of experience in ad serving and ad management technologies such as SSP, double click for publishers, Google Adx, Demand Side Platform(DSP), Private Market Place (PMP) ADTECH etc.
• Experience using Ad serving Tools like DFA, ATLAS, MediaMind, etc.
• Hands on experience of atleast 2-3 years with Data Management Platforms such as Acxiom Live Ramp, Lotame etc.
• Knowledge of Real Time Bidding tools and exchanges like Google Ad exchange, PubMatic, AdRoll etc.
• Ability to integrate display Ad delivery for Rich media, Mobile and Several custom ads.
• Extensive experience as a Facebook user and familiarity with Facebook’s ad solutions preferred
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities along with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Excellent written and oral communication

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Technical Business Analyst/Senior Technical Business Analyst

Job Summary: We are looking for a seasoned Technical Business Analyst, preferably from BFS domain, who will drive priorities around business deadlines, by working with cross functional teams and subject experts.

Job Description:

• Manages, analyses business requirements with the ability to prioritize during changes and conflicts.
• Can independently facilitate user groups and drive consensus.
• Ability to write detailed descriptions and analysis of user needs, business impacts and systems functionality for software development life cycle.
• Lead cross-functional elicitation requirements sessions with subject matter experts to determine potential conflicts/other requirements that may exist in other areas.
• Understands the project schedule and plans/prioritizes the work schedule for a team and meets deadlines consistently.
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects.
• Guide the testing team in understanding the requirements and ensure proper coverage of the functionality during the various test phases.
• Should be able to work independently and share learning's with fellow colleagues.

Education/Skills & Requirements:

• Bachelor of Technology or Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Computer Applications or Electronic Engineering required.

Key Competencies, knowledge, skills:

• 4-8 years of experience in BFS domain. Preferably in a Banking Product company.
• Comprehensive and detailed Business Analysis and Requirement Documentation(BRD) skills required.
• Work experience in an agile project will be ideal.
• Knowledge of financial services industry & Current Industry Practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors.
• Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take.

Job Title: Technical Architect

Job Objective: To strategize with management and lead the platform engineering team in developing a next-generation architecture for Fintech customer lifecycle decision management, including underwriting, credit risk, fraud analysis, optimal offers, and collections treatments.

Responsibilities (job role and routine responsibilities of this position) :

• Design and develop a high performance platform for online lending including large scale data acquisition, machine learning, decision management, and data security across multiple end-user environments (e.g. mobile, desktop, and point of sale).
• Extend and evangelize a modern paradigm that leverages AWS microservices written in Java, Python and Node.js.
• Work closely with other development teams to ensure architectural integrity and deliver a variety of product solutions that leverage the platform.
• Provide architectural leadership for the automated testing framework including continuous integration and full regression testing.
• Drive to ensure best practices through consistent conventions such as code comments, variable naming, database schema design, etc. throughout the development process.

Technical Skills:

• 8+ years of experience with strong design & coding experience
• Experience with Java and Python required, Node.js a plus.
• Experience with microservices architectures required, microservices on AWS a plus.
• Experience with rules engines and config driven development required.
• Experience in Fintech a plus.
• Build and consume internal/external APIs (including, but not limited to REST).
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development (TDD) and continuous integration.
• Proficient with SQL, and specifically MySQL. Experience with NoSQL databases a plus.
• Experience with Docker or other containers are a plus.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Building testing strategy to setup tools / frameworks, processes and quality gates to support continuous high-quality delivery while scaling applications and team
• Responsible for creating test infrastructure and tools
• Upskilling the team to achieve the testing strategy
• Define quality metrics, setup target, monitor and report and setting up goals to meet the target
• Ensuring that unified testing process and tools used across all sprint/project teams
• Monitor the effectiveness of testing practices in all stages of SDLC/STLC and ensure constant improvements
• Stay up to speed on process, practice and technology, new developments in QA areas and validate them for adaptation to our environment

Skills:

• 8+ Years of experience in testing domain and great level of understanding of development practices
• Good experience in designing and developing testing tools/frameworks
• Hands on with building and improving test automation frameworks with automation tools like Selenium web driver, Appium, Calabash, SOAPUI, TestNG and Cucumber
• Proficient in any one of programming language (e.g Java, Python) to build testing automation
• Great understanding on Unit testing, Functional testing, UI and Cross browser, Performance testing and Security testing
• Experience in test case management system
• Experience in setting up CI and CD environment with multiple quality gates
• Experience of technically leading Test Automation projects both on Web, Mobile and REST automation side.
• Deep understanding of different test automation approaches (keyword-driven, Data-driven, BDD)

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Compliance Manager

Number of open positions: 1

Job Number: 1060030
Location: Chennai, India
Department: Compliance

Job Summary: The Compliance Manager will assist in supporting the Compliance Group's efforts to adhere to the rapidly changing legal and regulatory environment as it relates to the consumer lending industry. The Compliance Manager supports in the implementation of the Compliance Management System (CMS) and associated Compliance Program components as developed by the Chief Compliance Office, and help to develop and execute strategies for closing compliance gaps.
Participates in job-specific training and other training programs as required, ensures compliance with federal and state consumer protection regulations and all loan servicing policies and procedures, and other duties as may be assigned.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Creating an inspiring environment with clear team goals, managing tasks and setting deadlines for the team
• Responsible for supervising, managing and motivating team members on a daily basis
• Assist in the maintenance and deployment of the company CMS and the Compliance Program components including, but not limited to: Training Curriculum, Complaint Management, Issue Management and Corrective Action, Third Party Risk and Oversight Management, Monitoring and Testing, Risk Assessment, and related activities
• Understand business lines, operational areas, products and services and keep abreast of changes (new products, services or business practices)
• Assist in evaluating the adequacy of business policies, procedures, training and reference materials, system and manual processes with respect to regulatory requirements
• Identifies and assists in developing monitoring and testing work papers regarding operational areas of risk that may impact compliance and business losses
• Identifies process improvement opportunities based on analysis of testing conducted and recommends operational best practices
• Conduct process level reviews, track process improvement opportunities or updates, and assist in trend analysis development and reporting
• Analyze testing results to identify trends/anomalies, provide feedback, and suggestions on potential process enhancements to improve business unit compliance
• Assists in ensuring records are in order and comply with regulatory and internal retention guidelines.
• Ensures appropriate departmental compliance training is conducted and assists with preparation of in tracking analysis development and reporting
• Performs a variety of duties as required by the position and/or assigned
• Working knowledge of consumer laws and regulations

Qualification & Experience:

• A self-starting individual
• As a team leader your communication skills should be excellent. You should also be able to act proactively to ensure smooth team operations and effective collaboration
• Bachelor's Degree in Legal Studies, Political Science, Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 5 to 10 years of financial institution experience is required.
• Compliance experience is required
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.), Adobe, and possess other computer-related skills
• Exceptionally strong analytical, organization and research skills
• Demonstrated reasoning and critical thinking skills with the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions in order to make recommendations to management
• Must maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion in performing daily duties
• Project management experience is necessary to work effectively in a high-pressure environment with time constraints
• Strong writing and presentation skills are required
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are necessary for maintaining effective relationships with employees and business unit management

Nice to Have:

• Consumer Lending Experience preferred
• Data mining experience preferred
• Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) certification is a plus but not required

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Technical Writer

Job Objective: We are looking for experienced candidate to join our documentation team, with following responsibilities. People who have worked in similar environment, interfacing with multiple technology and functional teams will be preferred. Excellent communication and go getter attitude are required. A minimum of 5 plus years in similar role will be ideal.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the SMEs (product and project managers, architects, developers, test engineers, etc.) to get information about the processes, procedures and products.
• Prepare high quality documentation deliverables such as process documents, procedure documents, training materials, user guides.
• Create meaningful business example scenarios and illustrations.
• Ability to gather information from documents, analyze the information, and extract only the required information for different types of deliverables.
• Excellent research and communication skills.
• Follow up with SMEs for technical reviews.
• Review and release documents.
• Collect feedback on the documents and update them if required.
• Maintain document versions and update the documents as and when required.
• Contribute to the style related aspects of documentation.
• Will need to work on multiple projects at the same time.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Salesforce.com Developer

Job Summary: We are looking for a Salesforce.com developer to design, build and maintain all functions on top of Salesforce.com platform, in order to support the company's loan management operations. The person is responsible for any custom development needed, evaluating 3rd party tools, and configuring Salesforce directly and through a dedicated team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Performs customization, development, testing, documentation and updating as it relates to the existing Salesforce developments and customization.
• Key daily responsibility will be to develop and deploy standalone batch apex classes and expose Apex webservices
• Experience in writing test classes for ensuring max code coverage.
• Experience in troubleshooting integrations between SF and other external systems.
• Implements new enhancements including creation of custom objects, workflows, email alerts and templates, and campaigns while performing unit testing
• Converts business requirements to detailed functional and technical specification for custom development and systems integration requirements
• Maintains multiple user roles, security, profiles, workflow rules, etc. while adding support for training new end users on the salesforce.com application
• Participates in cross-functional teams that address strategic business issues involving CRM and sales operations
• Demonstrates ability to effectively communicate technical issues and resolve problems at all levels of the organization both internally and externally

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor of Engineering, or in related fields
• 4 years’ experience developing Salesforce.com solutions and implementations
• 4 years’ experience in Apex programming and Visual Force
• Excellent analysis skills and the ability to develop processes and methodologies
• Experience with ETL tools and the concepts of successful data quality and movement
• Well versed in agile development methodology
• Knowledge of XML, SQL, SOSL, SOQL, HTTP/HTTPS, and EAI processes
• Experience with web-based programming (Apex, VisualForce, Salesforce APIs, SOAP or REST services)
• Some experience or background in web development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, and XML
• Experience or background in relational database development (MySQL)
• Force.com Query Optimization Custom Development
• Ability to provide guidance on Salesforce.com functionality and limitations, architecture, etc.

Nice to Have:

• Any Salesforce.com Certification.
• CloudLending product (built on top of Salesforce.com) experience

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.