Senior Data Scientist

Position: Data Scientist

Location: Remote (EU-based, EU citizenship or right to work in EU required)

Contract: July 11, 2025 – June 30, 2026

Rate: Up to €45/hour

Overview

Join our client's project supporting a major banking group’s global rollout of advanced transaction monitoring. You’ll lead model development for customer segmentation and financial crime detection across 30+ subsidiaries, refining and deploying machine learning solutions at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and refine machine learning models for classification, clustering, and risk segmentation.
• Analyze and process financial transaction data, optimizing detection models for scalability and efficiency.
• Perform advanced statistical modeling, parameterization, and scenario threshold tuning.
• Work extensively with Apache Spark (including internals), Python, and Git to deliver and operationalize analytics.
• Collaborate closely with data engineering and business teams for integration and continual improvement.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Data Science or related field
• 7+ years of ML/AI model development experience (post-master’s)
• Strong grasp of clustering and classification algorithms
• Experience with financial transaction data
• Hands-on expertise with Apache Spark (including internals), Python, and Git
• Excellent written and verbal English
• Experience in FinCrime or banking (preferred, not required)

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