Grab
FinTech
SeniorDataScientist
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“Senior Data Scientist at Grab. Skills: Credit Risk Modelling, Machine Learning, Data Science. Develop PD, LGD, and EAD models. Apply data science fundamentals”
What You'll Achieve.
Produce, explainable and stable solutions; Enhance model predictive power; Improve risk segmentation; Drive business performance; Continuous improvement; Balance model performance with business trade-offs
Industry & Context.
Solve hard technical problems; Troubleshoot data/model issues; Lead structured across datasets
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years of experience building PD, LGD, and EAD models, High proficiency in Python, High proficiency in SQL, High proficiency in PySpark, Full understanding of data science fundamentals, Experience with model deployment, Experience with model monitoring
Nice to Have
Deep Learning, Cloud platform certs
What You'll Do.
Apply data science fundamentals
Build modelling pipelines
Guide model deployment
Troubleshoot data/model issues
Contribute to best practices
Leverage alternative data
Build end-to-end pipelines
Design credit risk solutions
Lead delivery of risk models
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Communicate with risk, underwriting, and engineering team members; Work in a partner environment; Partnering with risk, underwriting, and engineering partners
Communication Scope
Communicate insights through presentations; Clear documentation; Presenting results; Aligning on requirements
Full Job Description
About Grab and Our Workplace Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility. Get to know the team GrabFin is an aggregate of FinTech businesses spread across 6 countries in South East Asia, in the Payments, Lending and Insurance domains. We station our engineering teams in Bangalore, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam. We are excited to provide financial services to all participants of the Grab Ecosystem be it our Consumers, Drivers or Merchants. We build our products on fundamental market insights combined with advanced Data Science, Generative AI and engineering to bring the best product market fit across the cross section of our user base. This understanding of our ecosystem combined with world class engineering execution continues to create tremendous value for our customers. GrabFin stations its data science team across Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. We aim to hire a Data Scientist to join our Bangalore office to expand the existing Bangalore team. The data scientist will work in a relatively flat team structure with an independent goal of building and manage critical credit risk analytics models daily. We will ask you to expect to solve hard technical problems and grow into an expert on PD, LGD, and EAD modelling across multiple South East Asian markets. You will have experience with technology, credit risk modelling, and data science along with being. Grab bases this role out of its Bangalore office. The Role: 1. Develop PD, LGD, and EAD models across multiple markets (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam), from problem framing to performan
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