# AP Lead Data Scientist – Financial Crime

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Singapore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is building a new Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific, designed to act as a regional hub for the Cyber & Financial Crime Solutions (FCS) vertical. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will be a core contributor to this centre, building and maintaining data science models that help detect fraud, scams, and money laundering using payments data.

In this role, you will:

- Perform proof-of-concept projects, engage in product design, and build prototypes.

- Develop new and novel algorithms to aid existing and new financial crime products using data science techniques.

- Conduct research to help understand the different criminal behaviours in payments data.

- Think about how derived insights can be turned into new products and services we can offer to external clients.

- Learn new technologies as required and engage with various technology stacks.

- Write white papers, patents, and client-facing data visualisations.

- Consider the full impact of your work, including privacy, security, and regulation.

- Act as a regional expert in building, maintaining, and evolving financial crime models.

- Support customers across Asia Pacific by providing data science guidance and services.

- Contribute to and support regional initiatives such as proof of value exercises and targeted solution deployments.

- Collaborate closely with global data science and product teams to align on methodology, research direction, and model strategy.

The successful candidate will have:

- A passion for designing algorithms to solve real, pressing problems using data.

- An interest in the financial services industry and a desire to tackle financial crime.

- Experience writing Python to a high standard and familiarity with standard data science libraries.

- The ability to develop new algorithms in novel situations and demonstrate previous work.

- A keen interest in understanding the data and modelling the behaviours it exposes.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to put yourself in other people's shoes.

- A can-do attitude and a willingness to work as part of a specialist team.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- data science
- algorithm design
- financial crime
- payments data

### Nice to have
- streaming and real-time data processing
- modern machine learning approaches
- network and graph-based analysis
- custom data visualisations
- analytical prototypes

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