Senior Data Scientist

Adaptive Solutions Group; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

STD/LTD

Life insurance

401k

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Adaptive Solutions Group is seeking a Data Scientist to tackle fraud and risk analytics. You will analyze complex problems, build predictive models, and derive actionable insights from diverse data sources.

Collaborating with business stakeholders and analytics teams, you’ll define metrics, validate models, and translate challenges into effective analytical approaches. You will also help deploy models with engineering support, document methodologies, and communicate findings via dashboards and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Proficiency in Python or R.
• Experience applying analytics to business problems.
• Knowledge of data platforms and cloud technologies.
• Experience using data visualization tools.
• Familiarity with source control and collaborative development.
• Strong analytical thinking and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex business problems related to fraud detection and risk analytics.
• Develop and evaluate predictive models, risk scoring, and anomaly detection.
• Analyze data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define success metrics and evaluation criteria.
• Translate business challenges into analytical approaches for decisions.
• Perform exploratory data analysis and communicate findings via reports and dashboards.
• Partner with engineering to deploy and operationalize models.
• Document methodologies, data limitations, and model performance.
• Develop monitoring to evaluate model effectiveness and detect risk patterns.
• Stay current on data science, fraud detection, and predictive analytics trends.

Skills

Data science

SQL

Python

R

Statistical analysis

Data visualization

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Git

Job description

Adaptive Solutions Group is a premier provider of information technology personnel. We provide a variety of technical professionals available for contract, contract to hire, or direct placement positions to companies in and around the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. Data Scientist – Fraud & Risk Analytics to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex business problems related to fraud detection, risk assessment, and operational performance using statistical and analytical techniques.
• Develop and evaluate predictive models, risk scoring methodologies, anomaly detection solutions, and analytical frameworks.
• Analyze customer, transaction, operational, financial, and behavioral data to identify trends, patterns, risks, and opportunities.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analytics teams, and technical partners to define success metrics, risk indicators, and model evaluation criteria.
• Translate business challenges into analytical approaches that support decision-making and operational improvements.
• Perform exploratory data analysis and communicate findings through reports, dashboards, presentations, and visualizations.
• Partner with engineering and technical teams to support deployment and operationalization of analytical models.
• Document methodologies, assumptions, data limitations, model performance metrics, and recommendations.
• Develop monitoring approaches to evaluate model effectiveness and identify emerging risk patterns.
• Stay current on advancements in data science, machine learning, fraud detection, predictive analytics, and risk management techniques.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience using SQL and relational database technologies.
• Experience with Python, R, or similar statistical programming languages.
• Experience applying statistical analysis, predictive modeling, machine learning, or advanced analytics techniques to business problems.
• Knowledge of modern data platforms, cloud technologies, or large-scale analytical environments.
• Experience using data visualization and reporting tools.
• Familiarity with source control and collaborative development practices.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and quantitative reasoning skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fraud analytics, risk analytics, credit risk, financial services, payments, lending, logistics, supply chain, marketplace platforms, or related industries.
• Experience developing fraud detection, anomaly detection, risk scoring, transaction monitoring, or predictive risk models.
• Experience working with machine learning solutions in production environments.
• Knowledge of graph analytics, network analysis, entity resolution, behavioral analytics, or relationship-based risk detection methodologies.
• Experience working with large-scale transactional, operational, financial, customer, or behavioral datasets.
• Experience partnering with product, operations, compliance, risk, or engineering teams to implement analytical solutions.
• Familiarity with cloud-based analytics platforms and machine learning ecosystems.

Benefits

• Adaptive Solutions Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes medical, dental, STD/LTD, life insurance coverage, 401k, paid vacation and holidays.