Head Of Data Science

Requirements

• Building models to predict loan repayment or similar financial flows for an active financial portfolio
• Consumer Credit/Lending experience
• Experience and a high capacity for managing multiple problems and assignments at the same time and delivering high-quality outputs
• Proficiency in data mining and data modelling techniques.
• ML Ops experience in an Agile environment
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and their applications in data analysis.
• Experience of ML models in Production supporting finance/credit Preferred skills include R, Python, DAX, and PowerBI or similar data visualisation tools (eg. Tableau) Additional skills
• Team Management skills, managing a team of full stack Data Scientists that are integrated into consumer Product teams.
• A balance of strategic direction, model design, business impact & insights and reviews.
• Debt receivables

Requirements

• Building models to predict loan repayment or similar financial flows for an active financial portfolio
• Consumer Credit/Lending experience
• Experience and a high capacity for managing multiple problems and assignments at the same time and delivering high-quality outputs
• Proficiency in data mining and data modelling techniques.
• ML Ops experience in an Agile environment
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and their applications in data analysis.
• Experience of ML models in Production supporting finance/credit Preferred skills include R, Python, DAX, and PowerBI or similar data visualisation tools (eg. Tableau) Additional skills
• Team Management skills, managing a team of full stack Data Scientists that are integrated into consumer Product teams.
• A balance of strategic direction, model design, business impact & insights and reviews.
• Debt receivables

As the Head of Data Science at M-KOPA you will be, managing a distributed Data Science team in a growing FinTech environment.

• Training team members throughout the organization to improve data fluency, and collaborating with the business to allow data-driven decision-making on critical business questions.
• Following a hiatus hiring for this role and some internal moves and restructuring we are now back recruiting for this role.
• This is a Senior role reporting directly to the CTO. You'll be leading a team of Data Scientists that focus on;

Building mission critical machine learning models for a global-scale financial technology company:

• Your experience should definitely include.
• Experience building data science models in a consumer lending company, with experience in some combination of credit scoring, repayment forecasting, and/or risk assessment.
• Experiencing line-managing data scientists