Senior Data Scientist - Credit Risk & ML Leader (Remote)

Forward Financing; Canada; On-site; CAD 174,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible time-off policy

Paid parental leave

RRSP match

Wellness reimbursement

Annual professional development budget

Job summary

Forward Financing is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to design and implement advanced models for credit risk and fraud detection. You will lead data science projects from design to deployment, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This role offers a competitive salary of CAD $174,000 - $220,000 and a potential 12% annual bonus, along with comprehensive benefits including flexible time-off and wellness reimbursement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on model development experience.
• Deep experience in building credit risk models in the fintech industry.
• Strong foundation in statistics and machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy advanced models for various business use cases.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of data science initiatives.
• Build and maintain production machine learning pipelines.

Skills

Model development using statistical techniques

Building credit risk models

Expert in Python

Expert in SQL

Project management skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Financial/Applied Math

Tools

AWS

Git

Metaflow

Job description

Forward Financing is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to design and implement advanced models for credit risk and fraud detection. You will lead data science projects from design to deployment, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This role offers a competitive salary of CAD $174,000 - $220,000 and a potential 12% annual bonus, along with comprehensive benefits including flexible time-off and wellness reimbursement.