Lead Data Scientist
ZAR 700K-900K (estimate) Senior-level Full Time
Tasks
- Advocate for AI adoption in fraud management
- Align cloud strategy
- Automate evidence analysis
- Automate reporting and MI
- Build case assignment logic
- Build generative AI applications for investigations
- Build investigation management solutions
- Build proactive fraud detection models
- Collaborate with compliance risk and audit teams
- Create fraud risk indicators and early warning systems
- Design feature training and inference pipelines
- Design future forensic platform architecture
- Develop forensic technology roadmap
- Develop fraud intelligence solutions
- Develop intake automation case triage and workflow orchestration
- Develop knowledge graphs and link analysis solutions
- Develop support and maintain forensic solutions
- Ensure ethical AI usage
- Ensure explainable models
- Evaluate technologies and vendors
- Govern automated decision making
- Identify emerging fraud trends
- Implement AI security and governance controls
- Implement intelligent document review
- Integrate solutions with business processes
- Integrate with enterprise systems
- Maintain and optimize data pipelines
- Monitor machine learning bias
- Own end to end MLOps lifecycle
- Perform entity resolution
- Produce intelligence products for investigations
- Provide architecture guidance for forensic platform development
- Support AI assisted investigations
Perks/Benefits
- N/A
Skills/Tech-stack
APIs | AWS | AWS Glue | AWS Step Functions | Agile | Alteryx | Amazon S3 | Amazon SageMaker | Apache Flink | Batch Processing | CI/CD | CloudFormation | Data Pipelines | Databricks | Delta Lake | Docker | Entity Resolution | FTI Pipeline | Feature Store | GitHub | GitHub Actions | Graph analytics | Inference | Jupyter Notebooks | Kafka | Knowledge graphs | Kubernetes | LightGBM | Link Analysis | MLOps | MLflow | Machine Learning | NumPy | Pandas | PyTorch | Python | RStudio | Real Time | Real-time Scoring | SQL | Scikit-learn | Spark MLlib | Spark Structured Streaming | Step Functions | Streaming | Structured Streaming | TensorFlow | Terraform | Training | Unity Catalog | XGBoost
Education
Bachelor of Engineering | Bachelor of Science | Master of Science
Roles
Data Scientist | Lead | Lead Data | Lead Data Scientist | Scientist
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