Data Science Team Lead

Job Description & Summary

Our Financial Crime team is looking for an experienced data scientist who would like to lead a team of 8 data scientists. The team is scattered in Poland, Czechia, Germany, Romania and Portugal. It is approximately half of our data science team.

About the team

Within the Financial Crime team, we solve business and technology problems that our clients face. This covers a broad range of topics and primarily revolves around putting regulatory requirements into practice.

Our work is to support banks in detecting money laundering, terrorism financing, drug dealing, corruption and other forms of crime. We support our clients in optimising their monitoring software by building models for behavioural customer segmentation and by parameterizing detection rules that identify suspicious activities.

In the last four years, the analytical part of our team has grown from 2 people to 18, and we are expanding further. We have built a centre of excellence in Prague that serves clients from all parts of Europe and beyond.

About the team

What will you do?

Hands-on work

• Analysis of data mainly about customers and their financial transactions

• Transforming data and understanding its meaning

• Developing and executing machine learning pipelines

• Writing tests to ensure code quality and maintainability

Team management

• Organising, distributing, delegating and planning work

• Methodological guidance in data management and analysis

• Making sure the team members are happy

• Mentoring the team to grow professionally

• Collecting feedback, organising retrospectives

• Continuous analysis and improvement of processes and workflows

Client management

• Leading the data science part of international projects

• Responsibility for the development and quality of client deliverables

• Review of work and outcomes

• Daily communication with the client

• Supporting the deployment of new transaction monitoring systems

• Streamlining ETL layers and addressing data quality issues

• Helping clients develop their analytical capabilities by transitioning from simple statistical methods to more sophisticated machine learning models

• Testing the efficiency of the implemented monitoring controls

• Helping clients adopt good software development practices

• Helping clients manage dependencies on other internal teams

Are you a good match?

• At least a master’s degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, computer science or a similar field

• 2 years of experience with managing at least a small team of data scientists

• Good understanding of machine learning algorithms and the underlying statistics, specifically for clustering and classification

• Understanding of various mathematical optimisation methods

• Knowledge of Bayesian networks and kernels is a plus

• Good knowledge of Python, PySpark, Git and cloud computing, ideally GCP

• Written and spoken proficiency in English

• Team player

• Confident communicator and a client-oriented person

• Ability to inspire clients and colleagues or to say diplomatically no when necessary

• Advisory approach

• Experience with analysing transactional data, ideally in banking

• Willingness to take initiative, learn and be challenged

Our Benefits and Fun

• Work that benefits society - We solve important problems

• A professional, talented, cheerful and ambitious team

• Work with clients and colleagues from various countries

• Stable, but challenging environment that provides plenty of opportunities for your continuous professional growth

• Paid time off of 30 days, 3 well-being days and extra days off at the end of the year

•  Benefit program with 55 000 points that you can use for holidays, education, meal and wellness vouchers, sports (Multisport card), health, etc. - Simply on what you enjoy

• Support for your education and development - We offer business and technical training to develop your personal and professional skills, we pay for technical certifications and the time you spend studying for them

• Career coaching from more senior colleagues

• Opportunity to work in the future at a foreign PwC office, for example in the USA, Canada or other locations

• Extra-work activities and away days like team buildings and ski weekends

• You will develop your skills while having the support from top-notch professionals 

PwC is the largest audit team in the Czech Republic, law, tax, consulting and technology, data or forensic teams. Find out how easy it is to combine this knowledge when you're in the right place. With us, you will get the opportunity to see how business is done in large companies. We are part of an international network of companies with more than 364,000 colleagues in 151 countries. At PwC, we create an inclusive work environment where everyone can be themselves and find their place and opportunity to develop.

Are you interested in our offer? Let us know about yourself and we will discuss more details together!

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