Lead Data Scientist II
Job Location:
Wilmington, DE - USA
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Job Summary
Best Egg now part of Barclays is a market-leading tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through innovative lending solutions and financial health tools. As a Barclays company we combine the agility and customer focus of a fintech with the global reach stability and purpose of a leading financial institutionworking together to create a better financial future for our customers and communities.
At Best Egg youll find a culture grounded in our core valuesputting people first creating clarity delivering with excellence enhanced by Barclays commitment to integrity inclusion and long-term impact. Together we empower our colleagues to challenge innovate and take ownership while making a meaningful difference in peoples financial lives.
With the strength of Barclays behind us we offer expanded opportunities for growth development and career mobility across a global organizationwhile continuing to build the products and experiences that make Best Egg unique.
Were looking for collaborative curious problem-solvers who are excited to make an impact and grow with us.
Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
Data is at the heart of everything we do. Join a Data Science team working at the cutting edge within our industry and constantly advancing our AI/ML practice. Our Data Science team is dedicated to creating advanced analytics and AI/ML solutions that power innovation and creative insights pioneer new products and help our business reach the next level. We work on diverse projects across all business units within the company and have a direct engagement model among data scientists business stakeholders the product organization and cross-functional teams.
This position is central to driving marketing decisions through the design and development of machine learning solutions. This role will focus on building and improving marketing models that drive critical prospect and existing-customer targeting addition you will collaborate with marketing and analytics partners to integrate models into marketing strategies improve campaign economics and ultimately support new loan origination.
This role is for a data scientist who is passionate about modeling analytics and problem-solvingand who wants to see their work directly drive critical business decisions.
- Build high-performance ML models that improve prospect response predictability and customer outcomes.
- Build end-to-end machine learning pipelines including data extraction feature engineering model development performance evaluation and implementation.
- Explore rich data assets to uncover trends identify key risk drivers and generate insights.
- Manage the full modeling lifecycle: model design data preparation and exploration feature engineering model development evaluation deployment monitoring and documentation.
- Design experiments and challenger models to test new ideas and drive innovation.
- Contribute to audit-ready documentation and support model validation and governance processes.
- Leverage modern AI technology and tools to improve workflow enhance modeling performance establish and promote best practices.
- Work cross-functionally to ensure models are explainable transparent and aligned with business goals and regulatory expectations.
- Translate analytical findings into recommendations for strategy pricing and other business decisions.
- Manage complex operational and conceptual tasks and problems that require innovative thinking as well as the professional and personal ability to create novel solutions.
- Interface regularly with stakeholders to define solutions and user requirements within moderately complex environments.
- A masters degree in a quantitative field (Statistics Mathematics Computer Science Economics Data Science Engineering etc.); Ph.D. preferred.
- 3 years of experience developing predictive models or performing advanced analytics.
- Strong understanding of statistical modeling and machine learning fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Python (e.g. pandas numpy scikit-learn) and SQL.
- Ability to clearly communicate analytical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ownership curiosity and ability to deliver high-quality results.
- Ability to commute to Best Eggs Wilmington office at least once a week.
- Experience in marketing campaigns financial services or other regulated industries.
- Exposure to cloud environments and modern data tooling.
- Familiarity with model monitoring validation and model governance concepts.
- Interest in using AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT Claude Gemini) to accelerate modeling and analysis.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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Senior IC
About Company
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