Data Scientist – Credit Risk

Full Time
  • September 8, 2026
  • Employment Info

    Responsibilities

    • Build next-generation steering models combining PD, LGD, and behavioral data to drive profitable commercial growth.

    • Analyze drivers of risk and performance and translate these insights into smarter acceptance, pricing and portfolio strategies.

    • Design and validate features that make models more robust and explainable

    • Partner with engineers to bring models into production and keep them running smoothly

    • Use smart decisioning and predictive models to accelerate loan approvals and identify high-potential customers.

    • Develop early-warning signals, stress-testing frameworks, and proactive risk intervention mechanisms for existing portfolios.

    • Champion model explainability by translating complex machine learning outputs into transparent, interpretable, and actionable decisions for leadership across Engineering, Analytics, and Data Modeling.

    • Stay sharp on trends, and new modeling techniques

    • As a senior you will, coach junior team members and help the team grow

    What you bring

    • 5 years of experience as a Data Scientist or Credit Risk Modeler in a bank, fintech or lending company.

    • Proven experience building and owning credit risk models (e.g. PD, LGD, loan capacity, portfolio models).

    • Strong skills in Python and SQL.

    • Experience taking models from data to production and embedding them in real credit decisions (acceptance, pricing, credit limits).

    • Strong understanding of lending portfolios and the growth vs risk trade-off, with experience contributing to risk appetite & portfolio steering.

    • Comfortable working with engineers, analysts and risk stakeholders in a cross-functional environment.

    • Business-driven: able to link models and analyses to approval rate, losses, margin and portfolio performance.

    • Structured, proactive and able to take ownership in a fast-growing scale-up environment.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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