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Lead Data Scientist

Harnham
City of London
1 month ago
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Lead Data Scientist

Up to £90,000

London (Remote/Hybrid)



Company:

Join a global financial platform offering fast, secure, and affordable money transfers, multi-currency wallets, and essential banking services worldwide, all within one app. You’ll be responsible for designing, building, and optimising credit and risk scoring models that drive key financial decisions across global markets.



Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development and maintenance of credit risk and affordability models using bureau, open banking, and alternative behavioural data.
  • Own end-to-end model lifecycle: data sourcing, feature engineering, model development, validation, and monitoring.
  • Design and execute champion/challenger tests and A/B experiments to continuously improve approval rates, loss rates, and customer experience
  • Analyse credit performance data to generate actionable insight and support strategic decisions
  • Mentor and develop a small team of analysts/data scientists as the team scales
  • Work closely with Data Engineering to deploy models into production pipelines.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define modelling goals and interpret model outcomes in a business context.


Requirements:

  • MSc or PhD Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Statistics or related fields.
  • Strong coding skills in Python and SQL
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.



**Please note that this roledoes notoffer visa sponsorship**



How to Apply:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Emily Burgess via the Apply link on this page

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