Lead Data Scientist, Receive Team — Hybrid & Growth Impact

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 91,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Annual development budget

Visa and relocation support

Full benefits package

Job summary

Wise in London is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join the Receive team. You will drive the design, deployment and monitoring of ML models that improve how customers receive and add money, collaborating with engineering, product, analytics, operations and risk teams.

You will analyze large transaction data, design experiments, build scalable pipelines and stay ahead with the latest data science and fraud prevention techniques to ensure strong product outcomes across markets.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of deploying models from scratch
• Strong Python and Git experience
• Experience with large datasets and data processing technologies
• Familiarity with anomaly detection and ML methods
• Strong communication and product mindset

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and deployment of ML models and data science solutions to improve Receive product performance across markets
• Analyze large volumes of customer, transaction and product data to identify trends, patterns, risks and opportunities
• Design and implement experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of product changes, decisioning systems and customer experience improvements
• Build scalable modelling approaches that support better prioritisation, personalisation, risk management and operational decision-making
• Collaborate with analysts, product managers, engineers, operations and risk teams to translate business requirements into actionable data science solutions
• Develop robust data pipelines, algorithms and tools to support production-grade modelling and decision-making
• Stay informed about the latest advancements in data science, machine learning, and payment fraud prevention techniques to ensure state-of-the-art capabilities in the Spend domain

Skills

Python

Git

Java

Spark

SQL

Hadoop

Anomaly detection

Model deployment

Communication

Product mindset

Cross-functional teamwork

Tools

Airflow

MLflow

AWS SageMaker

AWS S3

AWS EMR

CI/CD

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Wise in London is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join the Receive team. You will drive the design, deployment and monitoring of ML models that improve how customers receive and add money, collaborating with engineering, product, analytics, operations and risk teams.

You will analyze large transaction data, design experiments, build scalable pipelines and stay ahead with the latest data science and fraud prevention techniques to ensure strong product outcomes across markets.