Senior Data Scientist

at Nuvei
🇺🇸 United States - Remote
📊 Data🟣 Senior

Job description

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist

Job Type: Full time

Reports To: Director of Fraud and Risk products

Location: US Remote

The world of payment processing is rapidly evolving, and businesses are looking for loyal and strategic partners, to help them grow.

WE ARE NUVEI.  Nuvei, the Canadian fintech company accelerating the business of clients around the world. Nuvei’s modular, flexible and scalable technology allows leading companies to accept next-gen payments, offer all payout options and benefit from card issuing, banking, risk and fraud management services. Connecting businesses to their customers in more than 200 markets, with local acquiring in 47 markets, 150 currencies and 586 alternative payment methods, Nuvei provides the technology and insights for customers and partners to succeed locally and globally with one integration.

At Nuvei, we live our core values, and we thrive on solving complex problems. We’re dedicated to continually improving our product and providing relentless customer service.   We are always looking for exceptional talent to join us on the journey!

Your Mission

This role will focus on supporting the fraud and risk as a service team in the gaming, gambling and skills-based games space.  You will help the team and the leadership evaluate current risk and fraud conditions though data analyses and visualizations, propose new and innovative solutions to detect and prevent fraud and other payment risks. You will build and assess statistical models and help build our data architecture, systems and tools for advanced fraud detection.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Data Analysis & Anomaly Detection: Perform deep exploratory data analysis (EDA) on transactional and user behavior data to uncover fraud and loss patterns and anomalies.

  • Fraud Detection Modeling: Design, develop and refine learning models to prevent and payment fraud, consumer abuse, and while optimize authentication and conversation rates.

  • Monitoring & Analytics Tools: Build dashboards and automated monitoring for fraud risk indicators (fraud rates, chargebacks, etc.) for internal and external stakeholders.

  • Optimize Auto-Approval Systems: Tune decisioning rules and model thresholds to prevent fraud while maintaining user experience.

  • Experimentation & Model Validation: Design and test new risk models to improve performance and business impact from new techniques.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, engineering, and operations to deploy models into production and integrate with new and existing workflows.

  • Incident Response & Continuous Improvement: Support fraud investigations and update models through post-incident learnings.

  • Reporting & Stakeholder Communication: Present findings to senior leadership, shaping risk policies and product roadmap.

  • Mentorship and Best Practices: Mentor junior team members and promote data science and machine learning best practices across the team.

Qualifications include, but are not limited to:

  • 5+ years of experience building data science/machine learning products, preferably with a focus on fraud/risk.

  • Strong statistical and machine learning foundations, including anomaly detection and classification.

  • Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to senior leadership.

  • Bring an entrepreneur and innovation mind set to Nuvei, advancing the adoption of next gen technology and capabilities

  • Prior experience in gaming, gambling, fintech, or high-risk industries is a plus.

  • Proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow/PyTorch) and SQL.

Working Language

English (written and spoken) is required as work involves cross-functional collaboration with teams across North America.

Nuvei offers a wide variety of benefits which include Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, Paid time off, 401(k) and many other great benefits.

Nuvei perks also include:

  • Frequent training programs on new systems and platforms.
  • Free Virtual yoga, meditation and fitness classes, community involvement, and many social activities.
  • Group Private Medical Insurance
  • Employee recognition program and possibilities for advancement in various fields.
  • Modern, dynamic and great work environment.

Nuvei is an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates collaboration and innovation and is committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. The team at Nuvei is comprised of a wealth of talent, skill, and ambition. We believe that employees are happiest when they’re empowered to be their true, authentic selves. So, please come as you are. We can’t wait to meet you.

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