CareerPlan

Lead Data Scientist - Recieve Risk

London, gbFull-time2026-10-13 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Lead the development and deployment of machine learning models to improve how customers receive and add money, focusing on risk mitigation and scalable data science capabilities.

Role type

Lead Data Scientist (Payments/Risk)

Builds

Production-grade ML models, data pipelines, and decisioning systems for the Receive product

Domain

Fintech / International Payments / Fraud Prevention

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning model development, Python, large-scale data processing (Hadoop, Spark, SQL), anomaly detection, supervised and unsupervised learning, statistical analysis, feature engineering, model monitoring

Preferred skills

MLOps tools (Airflow, MLflow, AWS SageMaker), fraud domain expertise, LLM-based solution design

Technologies

Python, Git, Java, Hadoop, Spark, SQL, AWS (SageMaker, S3, EMR), Airflow, MLflow, CI/CD

Responsibilities

Lead development and deployment of ML models for Receive product performance, analyze large volumes of transaction data to identify risks, design and implement experiments for product changes, build scalable modelling approaches, collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements, develop robust data pipelines and tools

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities