Data Scientist/ Sr. Data Scientist
Data Scientist/ Sr. Data Scientist
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Background
Through technology and advanced analytics Nikel offers a range of products to our customers in Indonesia including Customer Acquisition Credit Card Onboarding and Management Lending Onboarding and Management Fraud Detection System Credit Decision Engine and Risk & Analytics Consulting. Our mission is to drive business growth by providing secure efficient and inclusive financial solutions. Website: Summary
The Company is seeking a dynamic and experienced Data Scientist/ Senior Data Scientist (exact job title commensurate with experience) to help accelerate the Companys innovation and data-driven strategy focusing on data management predictive analytics machine learning and intelligent automation. The ideal candidate should possess a deep understanding of lending credit payment risk management and will be responsible for developing innovative data solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver innovative data solutions that enable informed decision-making and business growth.
What youll bring:
- Curious and creative mindset: You thrive in solving complex undefined problems and have a passion for exploring new ideas. Youre not afraid to ask the tough questions or present innovative approaches and you can distill your insights for non-technical audiences.
- Strong technical expertise: You have hands-on experience building data science solutions from concept to production leveraging open-source tools and modern cloud computing platforms. You can work comfortably with massive datasets.
- Statistical prowess: Youve built validated and fine-tuned models. You know your way around a confusion matrix ROC curves clustering classification time series analysis and deep learning techniques.
- Customer and product focus: Youre driven by a passion for fintech and enhancing the banking experience. You ensure that your work directly contributes to business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate complex business problems into analytical questions.
- Design and implement data-driven solutions for a variety of use cases.
- Develop and implement advanced machine learning models such as credit scoring fraud detection behavioral analytics and optimization models.
- Create analytics dashboards for actionable insights and reporting improving decision-making processes.
- Manage end-to-end data science projects including planning execution and post-implementation monitoring.
- Continuously improve data science practices tools and frameworks to ensure scalability and efficiency.
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to integrate data models into core products.
- Present and explain findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders ensuring clarity and impact.
- Mentor junior data scientists and offer technical guidance to support team growth and success.
Qualifications
- Degree in a quantitative discipline: Mathematics Statistics Data Science Computer Science Statistics Engineering or a related field.
- 5 years of experience in data analytics data management or related roles.
- Solid understanding of statistical models including their assumptions and limitations.
- Experience developing credit models in the Retail/SME space (e.g. credit cards merchant analytics fraud detection).
- Strong proficiency in Python R or SQL; experience in multiple languages is a plus.
- Hands-on experience in the model development lifecycle (training validation tuning monitoring).
- Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau and/or Metabase; dashboard creation experience is an advantage.
- Strong understanding of financial industry best practices.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure Google Cloud) for data processing and model deployment is a plus.
- Strong understanding of data management principles and infrastructure is a plus.
Benefits
- Challengingrolein a startup environment with strong growth ambitions.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- A dynamic and innovative work environment.
- Competitive compensation and benefits
At Nikel we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
