Remote Data Scientist: Credit Risk & Modeling

Madfish; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS company in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled Data Scientist with proficiency in Python and SQL to engineer risk-focused features. The candidate should have 4-6+ years in data science or risk analytics, and hands-on experience with credit-risk models. The role includes developing dashboards and data pipelines and working within a low-ego, high-ownership culture. This position emphasizes clear communication and teamwork in a remote setting.

Qualifications

• 4 – 6+ years in data science, risk analytics, or credit-modeling.
• Strong Python and SQL; solid PySpark on distributed data a big plus.
• Hands-on experience building or validating credit-risk or fraud models.

Responsibilities

• Engineer risk-focused features in Python/PySpark.
• Develop PD/LGD models using various statistical techniques.
• Create robust, reproducible data pipelines with version control.

Skills

Python

SQL

Risk analytics

Data science

Git

Statistics

PySpark

Tools

PostgreSQL

PowerBI

Job description

A leading SaaS company in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled Data Scientist with proficiency in Python and SQL to engineer risk-focused features. The candidate should have 4-6+ years in data science or risk analytics, and hands-on experience with credit-risk models. The role includes developing dashboards and data pipelines and working within a low-ego, high-ownership culture. This position emphasizes clear communication and teamwork in a remote setting.