Senior Payments Optimization & Risk Analytics Lead

Triwill Group; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen in Chicago is seeking a Senior Optimization Data Analyst to shape how we optimize payments performance for our largest merchants. You will own end-to-end analytics across risk, fraud, and ML-driven decisioning, translating data into actionable strategies for product and commercial teams.

In this role you will work with large-scale transactional data, design experiments, and build reusable analytics frameworks.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant data analytics, data science, risk, or fraud optimization.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python, SQL, and PySpark for large-scale data processing.
• Strong data visualization and self-service analytics experience (Looker/Tableau).
• Payments/fintech experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead PO's most complex merchant engagements in risk, fraud, and ML optimization.
• Analyze large-scale risk model data and ML outputs to derive actionable insights.
• Collaborate with risk product teams to translate analytics into product priorities and merchant guidance.
• Design and execute advanced analyses, experiments, and scalable analytical frameworks.
• Develop automation and scalable data products to extend PO reach beyond direct engagements.

Skills

Data analytics

Risk analytics

Experiment design

Tools

Python

SQL

PySpark

Job description

Adyen in Chicago is seeking a Senior Optimization Data Analyst to shape how we optimize payments performance for our largest merchants. You will own end-to-end analytics across risk, fraud, and ML-driven decisioning, translating data into actionable strategies for product and commercial teams.

In this role you will work with large-scale transactional data, design experiments, and build reusable analytics frameworks.