Senior Data Science Lead – Emerging Fraud Strategy

Jpmorgan Chase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 133,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

PNC seeks a Data Science Expert - Emerging Fraud Risk Lead to identify and mitigate emerging fraud risks in Credit Card and Lending. You will bridge Fraud Monitoring, Incident Response, and Countermeasures Analytics, driving scalable detection and proactive mitigation initiatives.

The role emphasizes advanced analytics, ML, and collaboration with Fraud Strategy, Risk Management and Technology teams to strengthen enterprise fraud controls.

Qualifications

• Experience in fraud analytics, data science, machine learning, or risk management within financial services.
• Proficient in Spark/PySpark for large-scale data processing and production ML solutions.
• Advanced SQL, Python and data science libraries for fraud detection and risk management.
• Hands-on ML development using Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, Pandas and NumPy.

Responsibilities

• Establish and mature the Emerging Fraud Risk capability with scalable detection pipelines.
• Identify emerging fraud threats across Credit Card and Lending products.
• Apply advanced analytics and ML techniques to uncover evolving fraud risks.
• Investigate complex fraud behaviors and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Bridge portfolio monitoring and incident response, prioritizing early risk indicators.
• Collaborate with Fraud Strategy, Countermeasures Analytics, Monitoring and Technology teams.
• Lead end-to-end analytical initiatives using large structured and unstructured data.
• Provide SME insights in fraud analytics, ML, and risk modeling.
• Influence executive-level decisions with data-driven risk assessments.
• Evaluate new analytic methods to enhance detection and enterprise risk framework.
• Drive thought leadership in fraud analytics and emerging risk management.

Skills

Fraud analytics

Data science

Machine learning

SQL

Python

PySpark

Statistical modeling

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Masters

Tools

Scikit-learn

XGBoost

LightGBM

Pandas

NumPy

Spark

Job description

PNC seeks a Data Science Expert - Emerging Fraud Risk Lead to identify and mitigate emerging fraud risks in Credit Card and Lending. You will bridge Fraud Monitoring, Incident Response, and Countermeasures Analytics, driving scalable detection and proactive mitigation initiatives.

The role emphasizes advanced analytics, ML, and collaboration with Fraud Strategy, Risk Management and Technology teams to strengthen enterprise fraud controls.