La Fosse is partnered with a renowned, global technology company in the financial services who are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to deliver expertise on a large financial crime project, building fraud detection technology with modern data science techniques.

You will help develop, deploy and support our suite of models used to prevent financial crime globally.

• Location: Hybrid/London twice per week
• IR35: Outside
• 6 months initial duration (likely extension)
• Early June start date

You will:

• Deploy industry-leading models to customers globally
• Conduct Proof-of-Value exercises with customers
• Contribute towards the research and development of new Machine Learning solutions
• Support in-production models, ensuring that they meet their user's needs over time

You must have:

• Extensive experience developing and deploying machine learning models at scale within financial services (ideally within financial crime prevention based projects)
• Very Strong Python skills and strong familiarity with the data science stack (pandas, scikit-learn and network)
• Have experience working in a, dynamic and scientific manner and creating high-quality models
• Be able to effectively explain complex technical concepts to a range of stakeholders and teams

Desirable

• Experience building fraud detection or anti-money laundering models at scale
• Knowledge around payments technology