Senior Fraud Data Scientist: Detect, Model & Protect

Maya; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Maya is seeking a Senior Anti-Fraud/Security Data Scientist to safeguard financial integrity by building advanced fraud detection models and leading feature engineering efforts.

You will collaborate with risk, security, and engineering teams to deploy models into production, monitor performance for drift, and translate data into actionable prevention strategies across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, CS, statistics or a related field.
• Strong proficiency in Python or R.
• Expertise in ML and statistical techniques for security and fraud.
• Experience with data mining, cleaning and feature engineering in security/fraud contexts.
• Domain expertise in fraud detection or cybersecurity threat detection.
• Knowledge of fraud detection methodologies including rule-based systems and anomaly detection.
• Experience with risk scoring, alert triage and investigation workflows.
• Production-ready modeling with monitoring and explainability considerations.
• Ability to work independently and in teams; collaborate with security and engineering.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in security/fraud data science.
• R&D experience is a plus; publishing in security/fraud venues is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Feature engineering and selection to optimize model performance.
• Develop and evaluate fraud detection ML models with metrics and A/B tests.
• Analyze data to identify patterns and anomalies indicating fraud; provide actionable insights.
• Collaborate with engineering to deploy models into production and monitor for drift.
• Communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor and guide data scientists to foster innovation and learning.

Skills

Python

R

Fraud detection

Machine learning

Data mining

Feature engineering

Anomaly detection

Time-series analysis

Graph analytics

Risk scoring

Collaboration

Explainability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field

Job description

Maya is seeking a Senior Anti-Fraud/Security Data Scientist to safeguard financial integrity by building advanced fraud detection models and leading feature engineering efforts.

You will collaborate with risk, security, and engineering teams to deploy models into production, monitor performance for drift, and translate data into actionable prevention strategies across the organization.