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Lead Data Scientist

Cognify Search
City of London
3 days ago
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Lead Data Scientist- Fintech - £100,000 + bonus


Join a rising star in the global fintech scene!


Following another successful round of funding & investment this company is continuing their meteoric expansion around the world.


They are now in need of a Lead-level Data Scientist to help with the build of some critical new data models & products.


Summary:


💰 Salary: £100,000

💻 Benefits: Bonus, health insurance

🚀 Industry/Type of business: Fintech

🏠 Remote working: 1-2 days per month in the London HQ

🧩 Interview process: 3 stages

📢 Reporting to: VP of Credit Risk

👏 Company size: ~300

🎯 Working on: Developing brand new models around credit & risk


What are we looking for?


  • Full-stack end-to-end data science experience covering deployment & production
  • Experience working in the fintech, financial services or credit risk domain
  • Experience with SQL & Python, and machine learning libraries including XGBoost, LightGBM, Scikit-learn etc.
  • Supporting platform & software engineering knowledge a plus!
  • The ability to communicate & guide data strategy


Candidates must be based in the UK. Unfortunately we cannot offer sponsorship for this hire.


Interested? Apply!

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