Credit risk modelling data scientist developing and maintaining models for Desjardins. Guiding risk quantification, credit decisions, compliance, and practitioner - led modelling projects.
About the role
- Data Scientist developing transactional fraud detection models for Desjardins’ banking and debit payments. Deploying analytics, dashboards, and mitigation strategies to protect members and clients.
Responsibilities
- Design models and strategies to quickly detect transactional anomalies
- Explore, analyze and synthesize information to understand the characteristics of active fraud schemes
- Develop strategies for detecting transactional fraud
- Test the theoretical performance of fraud mitigation models, rules and tools
- Deploy fraud mitigation models, rules and tools into production
- Continuously monitor fraud patterns and how well models and strategies are performing
- Research and develop predictive variables to improve fraud detection
- Develop, update and produce dashboards, data visualizations and various reports
- Optimize and automate key fraud detection analytics processes
- Provide ad hoc advice on projects to improve fraud risk management tools
- Serve as an ad hoc advisor to the risk management teams and business sectors in your field
- Monitor the industry to understand and anticipate trends in your field in order to develop and update best practices for the organization
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- A minimum of four years of relevant experience
- Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
- Experience in analytics with transactional data
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as IBM Cloud Pak® for Data or Microsoft Azure
- Experience with Apache Spark (via PySpark), Shiny, RStudio and Databricks
- Knowledge of French is required
- Proficiency in Python or R programming
- Proficiency in data science libraries and their limitations, including scikit-learn, pandas, Matplotlib, NumPy and SciPy
- Proficiency in SQL programming
- Knowledge of GitHub
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual bonus
- 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
- Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
- Group insurance including telemedicine
- Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment
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