Senior Data Scientist

August 30

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At iwoca, we believe finance should feel like a superpower, not a headache.

Fintech • Trade Finance • Alternative Lending • Small Business Financing • SME

201 - 500

Description

• As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead data-informed innovation in lending products. • Design thoughtful experiments and precisely measure opportunities to shape customer experience. • Work with Repeats team lead and Tech leads to identify opportunities within customer journey. • Quantify opportunities to inform lending strategy decisions. • Own monitoring and data pipelines covering user journey data. • Collaborate across teams to ensure methodological alignment at iwoca. • Improve predictive accuracy through advanced statistical techniques and machine learning. • Promote analytical rigour in experimental designs and evaluations.

Requirements

• Ability to dive deep into the business context and translate data into actionable insights. • Strong problem-solving skills in probability and statistics. • Understanding of experimental design. • Proficiency with data manipulation and modelling tools, e.g. pandas, statsmodels, R. • Self-driven with the capability to efficiently manage projects end-to-end. • Python experience (we mostly work in Python). • Experience with Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, R, Matlab, and/or SQL. • Experience with Bayesian analysis. • Experience using machine learning techniques • Experience with modelling credit risk or other topics in mathematical finance (e.g., pricing). • Numerate academic background, e.g. in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or similar.

Benefits

• Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership • A private GP service (separate from Vitality) for you, your partner, and your dependents. • 25 days’ holiday, an extra day off for your birthday, the option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leave, and unlimited unpaid leave • A one-month, fully paid sabbatical after four years. • Instant access to external counselling and therapy sessions for team members that need emotional or mental health support. • 3% pension contributions on total earnings • An employee equity incentive scheme • Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you save money. • Electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme • Two company retreats a year, we’ve been to France, Italy, Spain, and further afield. • A learning and development budget for everyone. • Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers. • Access to learning platforms like Treehouse.