Manager, Data Scientist

Financial Services

Manager,DataScientist

$179–205k McLean, Virginia, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Manager, Data Scientist at Manager, Data Scientist. Skills: Machine learning, Fraud prevention, Data science, Model deployment. Build and deploy machine learning models. Optimize models for segments”

What You'll Achieve.

Secure credit card portfolio; Provide financial protection; Achieve business value; Improve fraud capture rates; Enhance customer safety

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Data-driven decision making

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's Degree in quantitative field plus 6 years of experience, Master's Degree in quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration plus 4 years of experience, PhD in quantitative field plus 1 year of experience, 1 year experience leveraging open source programming languages, 1 year experience working with machine learning, 1 year experience utilizing relational databases

Nice to Have

PhD in STEM field plus 3 years of experience, 1 year experience working with AWS, 4 years experience in Python for large scale data analysis, 4 years experience with machine learning model development, 4 years experience with SQL, Experience with big data and distributed computing, Experience with Spark, Experience with model risk governance, Experience technically leading and developing a team, Experience with traditional machine learning, Experience with emerging GenAI techniques

What You'll Do.

Build and deploy machine learning models

Optimize models for segments

Improve fraud capture rates

Enhance customer safety

Detect and mitigate first-party fraud

Deliver production-ready insights

Partner with cross-functional team

Leverage technologies to reveal insights

Build machine learning models through all phases

Monitor and support continuous model deployment

Collaborate on design and maintenance of solutions

Write clear technical documentation

Ensure models adhere to best practices

Maintain regulatory compliance

Maintain model inventory records

Execute model testing and change control protocols

Collaborate on independent model validation

Collaborate on compliance risk assessments

Translate complexity into business goals

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional team; Data scientists; Software engineers; Product managers

Communication Scope

Technical documentation; Translate complexity

Full Job Description

Manager, Data Scientist - Card Payment Fraud Prevention Data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making. As a Data Scientist on the Card Payment Fraud Prevention team, you'll lead the charge against first-party fraud. You will build and deploy mission-critical machine learning models that operate across billions of transactions to secure the entire credit card portfolio. You will research, build, and deploy advanced machine learning solutions using a cutting-edge tech stack. Your work will directly translate to massive financial protection and business value from reduced credit losses. The mission includes optimizing models for highly challenging and expanding segments to improve fraud capture rates and enhance customer safety. _****Team Description****_ The Card Payment Fraud Prevention data science team detects and mitigates first-party fraud by building and deploying machine learning models that keep customer accounts safe and compliant. Leveraging big data and a modern tech stack—including Python, Spark, Ray, H2O, PyTorch, and Kubernetes—the team delivers production-ready insights with a focus on both speed and sustainable impact, combining deep experience in traditional ML with an appetite for AI-based development. _****In this role, you will:****_ * Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love * Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data * Build machine learning models through all phases of dev

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