Senior Fraud Analytics & Risk Modelling Scientist

ASTEK SINGAPORE INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Astek Singapore Innovation Technology Pte. Ltd. invites a Mid to Senior Level Data Scientist to enhance fraud analytics and risk modelling for public training grant schemes.

You will validate models, calibrate thresholds, monitor performance and build analytical solutions to detect potential fraud risks. The role involves collaboration with business stakeholders and data engineers to translate requirements into scalable workflows, maintain documentation, and develop dashboards tracking

Qualifications

• Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or a related quantitative discipline.
• Min 4 years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, fraud/risk modelling or model validation.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in Python and SQL for data analysis, transformation and model development.
• Experience developing, validating or enhancing predictive models, risk-scoring models, fraud detection or anomaly detection solutions.
• Strong understanding of feature engineering, backtesting, threshold calibration and model performance metrics, including precision and recall.
• Experience with large, complex datasets, data quality assessment, anomaly detection and data lineage.
• Ability to translate business requirements into analytical specifications, model logic and measurable risk indicators.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation and stakeholder communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Review, validate and optimise fraud detection models, including methodology assessments, backtesting, threshold calibration and performance evaluation.
• Develop and enhance fraud-risk indicators, scoring models, analytical rules and features based on business and operational requirements.
• Build and maintain technical dashboards to monitor model performance, including precision, recall, data drift, concept drift and alert thresholds.
• Analyse new grant schemes, eligibility criteria and claims processes to identify potential fraud risks and recommend appropriate detection approaches.
• Perform exploratory data analysis, data validation, anomaly investigation and impact assessments using large-scale datasets.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers and management to translate requirements into analytical solutions.
• Maintain reproducible analytical workflows, model documentation, validation reports and knowledge transfer materials.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data science

Fraud analytics

Model validation

Feature engineering

Threshold calibration

Stakeholder communication

Education

Degree in Data Science/Statistics/Math/CS/Engineering

Tools

Tableau

Spark

PySpark

AWS Redshift

AWS Glue

CI/CD

MLOps

Job description

Astek Singapore Innovation Technology Pte. Ltd. invites a Mid to Senior Level Data Scientist to enhance fraud analytics and risk modelling for public training grant schemes.

You will validate models, calibrate thresholds, monitor performance and build analytical solutions to detect potential fraud risks. The role involves collaboration with business stakeholders and data engineers to translate requirements into scalable workflows, maintain documentation, and develop dashboards tracking