Senior Data Scientist

Feedzai; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Feedzai is seeking a data science professional to support our Customer Success team in delivering risk prevention solutions to clients. You will understand client data, clean and preprocess it, and iteratively build features and models using Python, Java/Scala, and big data tools.

You will communicate findings to stakeholders and collaborate across product, research, and client teams. You will bring a strong foundation in ML, data preprocessing, and big data (Spark/Hadoop), plus excellent

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in a relevant STEM field.
• Strong foundation in machine learning and model development.
• Experience with big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop).
• Proficient in Python and at least one of Java or Scala.
• Experience in data cleaning and feature engineering.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Customer-facing experience is a plus.
• Fraud and digital finance domain knowledge preferred.

Responsibilities

• Understand client data and its source systems.
• Clean and validate incoming data.
• Preprocess data using shell scripts and Python/Java/Scala.
• Iteratively compute features and tune model parameters.
• Communicate findings to project manager and support decision making.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, risk managers from clients.
• Work with Product and Research to improve processes and tooling.

Skills

Machine Learning

Big Data

Python

Java/Scala

Bash

Data preprocessing

Model tuning

Communication skills

Fraud domain knowledge

Education

MSc or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Linux Bash

Python

Java/Scala

Job description

At Feedzai, we're building a world of safer money. A world where financial institutions move faster than criminals. Where the payments that fund real lives through salaries, savings, and businesses are protected in real time. We use trusted AI to detect and prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering at scale: the world's top banks, payment networks, and acquirers trust our technology to safeguard more than one billion consumers and $9 trillion in payment volume every year.

Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of $2 billion, our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.

The Data Science Team within Customer Success is highly engaged with our clients making use of their critical thinking skills with a business-focused mentality and customer-facing attitude. They activate, maintain, and support clients, develop models and rules, and train & enable them. In addition, they work cross-functionally with other departments (e.g., Research, Product, Marketing) in a collaborative team spirit spanning the globe to ensure we deliver best in class risk prevention solutions. Being on the frontline of fighting crime and protecting people from financial harm is incredibly inspiring to each of us.

Your Day To Day

• Understanding the data which our clients provide to us;
• Cleaning that data and validating that it is correct;
• Preprocessing the data, usually by using a mixture of shell scripts and a programming language such as Python, Java, Scala, etc.;
• Iteratively computing features and tuning parameters to improve the quality of the model;
• Communicating your findings to the project manager and assisting him/her in decision making on the Data Science part of the project;
• Work together with key stakeholders (data scientists, engineers, risk managers) from our clients;
• Work with other parts of the organization (Product, Research, etc.) to improve processes, best practices and tooling.

You Have & You Know-how

• MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics or related field;
• Proficient in Machine Learning (training and testing, avoiding overfit, etc.);
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop and related;
• Proficiency in bash, Python and either Java or Scala;
• Knowledge of resource monitoring and runtime optimization (both at JVM and OS level);
• Superior oral, presentation, and written communication skills;
• Fraud & Digital business domain experience (preferrable);
• Customer facing experience is a plus;
• Knowledge of statistics or data visualization is a plus;
• Knowledge of tree based algorithms (Random Forests, XGBoost, LGBM) is a plus;

The Customer Success Team

is responsible for delivering our product to our clients. This includes education, configuration, solution development, and risk strategy to enable our clients to address their pain points. We collaborate with our clients to ensure they have the right solution, build out a strategy and training plan for them, and then support them through each phase of our client lifecycle. We grow at a fast clip and believe no challenge is too big or too small. Therefore, we have an open environment that encourages us to lean in, try new things, and discover our potential.

Your First 30-Days At Feedzai

You will be immersed in our brand with training, connections, and one-on-one time with your manager. You may shadow your colleagues virtually or onsite at an office depending on where you work as you are supported through your Feedzai journey. In addition, you will have access to a ton of information to give you history, context, and all the knowledge you can handle about Feedzai and the team. Finally, you will start working on projects and collaborating on work currently being done. We can't wait to have you join the team!

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Feedzai Culture

Feedzai is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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