CareerPlan

Manager, Data Scientist - Alternative Data Strategy

New York, NY, USFull-time$179k–$246k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-11
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Evaluate emerging vendors and data products, engineer high-impact features, build scalable processing and monitoring systems, and guide users on dataset applications for credit decisioning.

Role type

Manager, data scientist (alternative data strategy)

Builds

Scalable data processing systems, challenger models, and feature sets for US Card strategies

Domain

Financial services / Alternative data / Credit decisioning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, Python, SQL, relational databases, statistical modeling, data engineering, vendor evaluation, risk governance

Preferred skills

AWS, Scala, R, deep learning, time series analysis, clustering, classification

Technologies

Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, SQL

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver data products; build and validate ML models; navigate risk governance for vendor models; engineer features from non-traditional datasets; collaborate on cross-functional initiatives

Seniority

Manager, hands-on IC with team leadership