Full-Time

Lead Data Science Analyst

Posted on 2/19/2025

Discover

Discover

10,001+ employees

Fintech
Financial Services

Compensation Overview

$105.5k - $147.1kAnnually

+ Incentives

Mid, Senior

No H1B Sponsorship

Wheeling, IL, USA

Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Category
Data Science
Data & Analytics
Required Skills
Data Science
Machine Learning
Data Analysis

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Degree
Experience
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s in Analytics, Engineering, Statistics or related field.
  • 4+ Years of experience in Credit Risk, Fraud Risk, Marketing Analytics, Optimization, Operations Analytics, Modeling/Data Science or related.
Responsibilities
  • Responsible for working closely with management to execute analytical initiatives.
  • Responsible for solving business problem by leveraging techniques such as segmentation, optimization, advanced analytics and machine learning.
  • Creates reports and dashboards to closely monitor performance metrics and provide insights.
  • Leads the development and implementation of advanced analytics including customer segmentation, optimization, prescriptive analytics and machine learning algorithm & recommendation to solve business problems.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional partners to understand their business needs, formulate and complete end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering, analysis, ongoing scaled deliverables and presentations.
  • Delivers effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of leadership, creating visual displays of quantitative information.
  • Establishes and maintains effective performance tracking; identify improvement opportunity, form hypothesis, proposes, designs and implements tests to drive strategy enhancement and optimization.
  • Manages multiple priorities, communicate business performance and project progress to management & business partners.
  • Develops and automates reports, iteratively build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale, solving for analytical needs.
  • Facilitates implementation of work product and ensure accuracy.
  • Consistently follows standard work processes and documentation requirements. Recommends improvement to work processes to increase efficiency while maintaining quality of work. Continuously improves technical and leadership skills through training and development.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Riverwoods, Illinois

Founded

1985

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • In-car commerce market projected to reach $86 billion by 2025.
  • Click to Pay expansion offers streamlined, secure shopping in multiple countries.
  • Support for Black-owned restaurants boosts brand image and customer loyalty.

What critics are saying

  • Capital One acquisition may cause instability in Discover's corporate strategy.
  • In-car commerce partnership exposes Discover to technological and adoption challenges.
  • Click to Pay expansion increases competition, pressuring Discover to innovate rapidly.

What makes Discover unique

  • Discover's partnership with Car IQ leads in the emerging in-car commerce market.
  • Global expansion of Click to Pay enhances Discover's digital checkout capabilities.
  • $5M initiative for Black-owned restaurants strengthens Discover's community engagement.

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Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances

Recognition Program

Education Assistance

Commuter Benefits

Family Support Programs

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Company News

Capital One
Feb 21st, 2024
Capital One to Acquire Discover | Capital One Financial Corp.

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Oct 2nd, 2020
The Rise Of eCommerce And Digital Banking Innovations

Car IQ has teamed with Discover to accelerate automotive banking, and Banking-as-a-Service is making it simpler for companies and FinTechs to manage data.

PYMNTS
Oct 1st, 2020
Today In Retail News: Car IQ Teams With Discover On In-Car Banking; Walmart Unveils New Store Design

In today's top retail news, Car IQ teams with Discover on in-car banking and Walmart unveils a new store design.

PYMNTS
Oct 1st, 2020
Car IQ Teams With Discover To Fast-Track Automotive Banking

By 2025, it is estimated that $86 billion will be spent on in-car commerce. That number assumes that human beings would be the ones giving the commands. But what if humans were removed from the in-car Commerce process – just as they have been removed from the autonomous driving process?