Data Scientist, Fraud Detection

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About the role

  • Data Scientist developing models, dashboards, and analytics to detect transactional fraud at Desjardins, North America’s largest cooperative financial group. Deploying and monitoring mitigation tools.

Responsibilities

  • Design models and strategies to quickly detect transactional anomalies
  • Explore, analyze and synthesize information to understand 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 model and strategy performance
  • Research and develop predictive variables to improve fraud detection
  • Develop, update and produce dashboards, data visualizations and reports
  • Optimize and automate key fraud detection analytics processes
  • Provide ad hoc advice on projects to improve fraud risk management tools
  • Advise risk management teams and business sectors in the field
  • Monitor industry trends and develop and update organizational best practices
  • Support the Debit and Banking Payments Fraud Analytics team's mission to combat transactional fraud and protect members and clients

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • A minimum of four years of relevant experience
  • 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 Actions

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
  • Reimbursement of telework equipment

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

ApacheAzureCloudNumpyPandasPySparkPythonScikit-LearnSparkSQL

Location requirements

HybridMontrealCanada

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