Principal Data Scientist, Quantitative Intelligence in Mundelein at Energy Jobline ZR – Mundelein | Jobyssey

Job Description

Principal Data Scientist, Quantitative Intelligence

A leading transaction data intelligence firm powering spend analytics, marketing measurement, and predictive modeling for Fortune 500 clients is hiring a Principal Data Scientist to build the statistical and predictive intelligence that powers their products. You’ll ship end-to-end ML systems, develop rigorous statistical methodologies, and build predictive models on large scale consumer transaction data. This role is hands on, deeply technical, and central to how we transform cleaned and resolved spend data into high value insights.

What you’ll do

Ship end-to-end ML solutions: research to modeling to production

Build statistical frameworks (balancing, normalization, paneling, cohorting)

Develop predictive models for spend forecasting, propensity, churn, and behavioral embeddings

Create causal measurement systems (synthetic controls, uplift, incrementality)

Apply privacy preserving ML (DP, cleanrooms, aggregation thresholds)

Drive production pipelines and governed model outputs

Mentor senior/staff scientists and represent methodology to stakeholders

What you bring

10+ years in ML/statistics with deep hands-on leadership for financial services

Predictive modeling in financial services / credit card data - spend

Credit card or financial transaction data experience

Strong foundation in weighting, calibration, bias correction

Expertise in supervised learning, forecasting, behavioral/tabular data

Causal inference experience (synthetic control, uplift, incrementality)

Production engineering skills (Python, SQL, cloud data warehouses)

Experience with large scale ML pipelines and evaluation frameworks

Excellent communication and methodological rigor

Representation learning / embeddings

Privacy preserving ML and cleanroom workflows

Keywords: ML Scientist, Statistical Modeling, Predictive Modeling, Paneling, Normalization, Cohorting, Causal Inference, Synthetic Control, Uplift Modeling, Transaction Data, Behavioral Modeling, Forecasting, Representation Learning, Privacy Preserving ML, Cleanrooms, Production ML Pipelines

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