Senior Data Scientist

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Data Scientist with 6–8 years of experience in banking or financial services, particularly in credit risk and lending projects. The role involves developing machine learning models for credit scoring, loan underwriting, probability of default and borrower behaviour analysis. Responsibilities include data preparation, feature engineering, model development, hyperparameter tuning, validation, explainability and deployment. Candidates should have strong proficiency in Python and SQL, along with practical experience using classification algorithms such as Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost. Experience with credit bureau data, scorecards, underwriting and model monitoring is essential. AWS and Amazon SageMaker experience is preferred.