AI & Emerging technologies

Data Scientist – Credit/Scorecard modelling

Quant Capital

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Lead Data Scientist role, you’ll steer the data science function for a consumer lending fintech, shaping credit modelling and data infrastructure. You will own end-to-end work—from building a new data warehouse to developing and monitoring production credit models—driving improvements across the modelling suite. Expect a startup-style, collaborative culture with a strong tech focus and exposure to a high-profile financial software client. The position offers remote work with minimal in-office presence in West London and a generous compensation package.

Pay / Benefits
  • Remote working
  • Up to 130,000 salary
  • 10% bonus
  • Office presence 2 days per month
  • West London location
  • startup culture
Responsibilities
  • Build a new Data Warehouse
  • Build out a new set of credit models
  • Work across the current range of credit models
  • Develop challenger models to improve the modelling suite
  • Monitor and report on these models, with oversight of the modelling process
Key requirements
  • 5 years of Data Science experience
  • Hands-on data scientist with financial sector experience
  • Experience creating models/scorecards used in production
  • Strong SQL
  • Strong Python or R
  • Strong understanding of data warehousing
  • AI Tooling
  • self-motivated and technically curious
  • able to think and decide with autonomy
  • team-oriented in a flat, startup-like environment
  • SQL
  • Python or R
  • Data warehousing

Reference: WJ-747_31196793

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