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Principal Associate, Data Scientist - Bank Customer Protection Debit & Claims

McLean, VA💼 Full-time💰 $161,800–$161,800🗓 2026-08-10 → 2026-09-27

Core

Build real-time machine learning models to detect and prevent debit card fraud and claims issues, protecting customers from fraudulent activities.

Role type

Principal Associate, Data Scientist (Fraud Detection)

Builds

Real-time decision systems for debit authorization fraud detection

Domain

Financial Services / Fraud Prevention

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Gradient boosting (XGBoost, LightGBM, H2O), Python, SQL, Spark, model backtesting, validation, performance measurement, cross-functional project coordination

Preferred skills

Production-quality Python (pytest, mypy, linting), MLOps (Kubeflow Pipelines on Kubernetes), handling highly imbalanced datasets, graph and sequence learning

Technologies

Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, SQL, Kubeflow Pipelines, Kubernetes, XGBoost, LightGBM

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver products keeping customers safe from fraud; build ML models through design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation; leverage big data stacks to reveal insights in numeric and textual data; translate technical complexity into tangible business goals

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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