Pioneer Risk Data Scientist - Build from Scratch (Remote)

ODS Serbia; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Flexible work options

Healthcare coverage

Education budget

Wellness budget

Vacation policy: 20 days

Job summary

Plata is seeking a Risk Data Scientist to join our team as we launch a new Colombia-based business line. You will build end-to-end ML models for risk decisions, from feature engineering to deployment and monitoring, shaping the function from the ground up.

You will work on models for credit decisions and adjacent areas, ensuring production-grade reliability as data scales. This role offers relocation support, flexible work options, healthcare, education budget, wellness budget, and 20 days of

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on, production-level Data Science experience.
• Hands-on experience across the full ML model lifecycle: development, deployment, monitoring, and decommissioning.
• Experience in banking or financial services strongly preferred, with an understanding of risk decisions in financial products.
• Strong foundation in ML algorithms, feature engineering, and model development.
• Proficient in Python, SQL, Airflow, Git, BI / Streamlit.
• Education: Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related STEM field from a top technical university.
• Comfortable working independently and owning problems end-to-end.
• B1 or higher English level for effective communication with an international team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own end-to-end machine learning models supporting risk decisions — from feature engineering and model development to deployment, monitoring, and retirement.
• Build predicting models for adjacent functions (e.g., churn/attrition prediction on issued loans, reserve calculations).
• Establish and maintain a managed lifecycle for ML models in production — ensuring models remain stable and reliable as data volume grows.
• Collaborate closely with Risk Analysts, Portfolio Managers, and Risk-tech strategy teams on model implementation.

Skills

Data science experience

ML lifecycle

English communication

Independent work

Education

Mathematics, Physics, CS

Tools

Python

SQL

Airflow

Git

BI/Streamlit

Job description

Plata is seeking a Risk Data Scientist to join our team as we launch a new Colombia-based business line. You will build end-to-end ML models for risk decisions, from feature engineering to deployment and monitoring, shaping the function from the ground up.

You will work on models for credit decisions and adjacent areas, ensuring production-grade reliability as data scales. This role offers relocation support, flexible work options, healthcare, education budget, wellness budget, and 20 days of