Senior Data Scientist - Fintech | First Permanent DS Hire
£75,000-£85,000 + benefits | Fully Remote (UK)
Direct report to CDO | Build the DS capability | FCA-regulated product
This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing, FCA-regulated fintech as their first permanent Senior Data Scientist, shaping a brand-new data science capability from the ground up.
The business has built a highly successful SaaS platform in the Fintech space. With strong investment and FCA approval now secured, they're moving firmly into the data products and insights space - turning the rich consumer financial and behavioural data they hold into real intelligence, new models, and new customer offerings.
Things expected from you
- Sets the standard
- Builds the capability
- Shapes the roadmap
- Becomes the go-to person for modelling, insights and DS foundations
What you will be doing
- Build and scale data science and modelling foundations in Databricks
- Work with financial, consumer and behavioural data to create new models & scorecards
- Design MI dashboards and reporting to help the business understand its own data
- Collaborate closely with Product, Finance, Customer Ops and the senior leadership team
- Evaluate where ML/AI can enhance the core SaaS platform
- Present insights and model outputs clearly to non-technical stakeholders (including board/NEDs)
- Influence how the data function grows over the next 12-24 months
This is the start of the data and analytics function - you won't just inherit a roadmap; you'll help write it.
You’ll thrive here if you are:
- A strong hands-on Data Scientist with experience in FS/fintech or regulated environments
- Confident working with Python, SQL and Databricks
- Capable of building predictive models, scorecards and ML components
- Comfortable creating dashboards/MI to support internal understanding
- Excited by a startup environment where you'll wear different hats
- Able to communicate clearly to senior and non-technical audiences
- Looking for ownership and long-term progression into Head of DS
Why this role is genuinely exciting
- You're the first permanent hire - you shape how DS works here
- Direct line to the C-suite, not buried in a data pod
- True autonomy: you influence strategy, tooling, roadmap and delivery
- Visible across the entire business, including investors & NEDs
- The company is moving from SaaS - data products, meaning greenfield work
- Clear long‑term upward path (team will grow over the next 12-24 months)
- Underneath you ideally!
- This is the role for someone who wants more than just building models - someone who wants to make their mark and grow with a FinTech entering its next phase
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