Lead Data Scientist - Credit Modeling & ML Systems

Perpay - Career's Page; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Perpay is seeking a Head of Data to lead our data science team across data engineering, data science, and strategic analytics. You will own hiring, performance management, and technical strategy, partnering with risk, marketing, and finance to advance production models and real-time decisioning.

The role blends hands-on coding and people management, with Python stack and AWS deployed models. Expect a fast-paced environment in Philadelphia, with collaboration and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years directly managing data scientists.
• Extensive IC data science experience with production ML.
• Strong modeling, risk, and decisioning knowledge.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration with Risk, Marketing, Finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Data Science team covering ICs to senior ICs.
• Own hiring, performance management, and technical strategy.
• Develop and shipping production models and data pipelines.
• Partner with Data Eng, Risk, Marketing, and Finance on strategy.

Skills

Data Science leadership

Team management

Modeling & ML

Production ML

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Python

AWS

ECS

Airflow

Terraform

Redshift

scikit-learn

pandas

Job description

Perpay is seeking a Head of Data to lead our data science team across data engineering, data science, and strategic analytics. You will own hiring, performance management, and technical strategy, partnering with risk, marketing, and finance to advance production models and real-time decisioning.

The role blends hands-on coding and people management, with Python stack and AWS deployed models. Expect a fast-paced environment in Philadelphia, with collaboration and growth opportunities.