Senior Data Scientist, Risk & Control Monitoring

Block; Sacramento (CA); Vor Ort; USD 188.000 - 282.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Remote work options

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Zusammenfassung

Block is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the First Line Risk Data Science team to build and scale control performance monitoring. You will own monitoring across a broad portfolio, partnering with risk, compliance, product, and engineering to embed measurement from pre-launch guardrails to post-launch outcomes.

The role demands analytical rigor, hands-on building, and strong product judgment to deliver metrics that close gaps and improve risk management across multiple workstreams.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in statistics, data science, economics, computer science, or a similar quantitative field with 7+ years of relevant experience; a master's with 5+ years; or a PhD with 3+ years.
• Track record of leading analytical solutions from problem definition through production use and adoption, including multi-person or cross-team efforts.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, including experience working with large datasets and building maintainable analytical code, reusable modules, and automated data workflows.

Aufgaben

• Define and maintain actionable control performance metrics and key risk indicators that connect control objectives, risk exposure, and customer outcomes to clear decisions for first line owners and compliance partners.
• Investigate how controls work in practice, using source data and system behavior to measure coverage, enforcement, exceptions, and outcomes, and identify where instrumentation or evidence is incomplete.
• Contribute scalable monitoring metrics and modules into our monitoring application, connecting metrics to risks and controls and helping teams identify emerging risks and prioritize the most consequential monitoring gaps.
• Turn high-value one-off analyses into reusable analytical modules and automated monitoring workflows that scale across controls and products.
• Apply statistical judgment to define populations, cohorts, baselines, and thresholds, and calibrate monitoring to detect meaningful changes while managing false positives and data quality limitations.
• Build repeatable solutions for product governance, including pre-launch risk measurement plans, rollout guardrails, and post-launch monitoring of control performance and risk outcomes.
• Partner with internal users to understand their decisions and workflows, shape a monitoring roadmap, and measure the value of solutions through adoption and improvements in risk management.
• Lead ambiguous initiatives from problem definition through delivery, aligning stakeholders on the vision, tradeoffs, ownership, and actions that monitoring should support.
• Communicate findings and evidence limitations clearly to technical partners, control owners, compliance teams, and senior leaders, and contribute reusable methods and technical guidance for other data scientists.

Kenntnisse

SQL

Python

Statistical analysis

Risk management

Data storytelling

Stakeholder collaboration

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in statistics/data science/economics/CS

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Matplotlib/Plotly

Git

LLMs

Jobbeschreibung

Block is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the First Line Risk Data Science team to build and scale control performance monitoring. You will own monitoring across a broad portfolio, partnering with risk, compliance, product, and engineering to embed measurement from pre-launch guardrails to post-launch outcomes.

The role demands analytical rigor, hands-on building, and strong product judgment to deliver metrics that close gaps and improve risk management across multiple workstreams.