# Lead Data Scientist - KYC/Onboarding

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 90.5K-127K yearly gross
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re looking for a technical Lead Data Scientist (IC3) to join our growing KYC (Know Your Customer) and Onboarding Team in London.

This role is a unique opportunity to understand the customer onboarding & Know Your Customer domain, how we mitigate risk leveraging data science techniques, and at the same time how to provide our customers with the seamless experience they deserve.

As a Lead Data Scientist, you will be responsible for owning training, iteration, and management of our machine learning models’ life cycle, and be responsible for the overall training, testing, model performance analysis, and research further modifications to our KYC systems.

Key responsibilities:

- Actively participate in planning and ideation of data science projects in collaboration with integrated cross-functional teams

- Uncover opportunities and provide expertise on applying machine learning/data science techniques

- Clearly articulate the value, limitations, and potential impact of data science initiatives to stakeholders with diverse levels of understanding

- Manage and create large image and tabular datasets related to KYC processes

- Iterate on our deep learning image models

- Measure and optimise performance of our machine learning models

- Maintain and develop a large Python codebase with industry-standard best practices

- Keep up-to-date with the rapidly developing field of machine learning and research how to incorporate new ideas on systems that benefit our customers directly in production

- Research the domain of Document verification to learn the best ways to prevent criminal activity

- Provide mentorship to junior team members, promoting their growth in data science skills and adherence to industry standards

Benefits:

- Flexible working

- Stock options in a profitable company

- Relocation support

- Generous parental leave

- Pension scheme

- Paid sabbatical

- Loads of development opportunities

- Sports and wellbeing compensation

- A fun work environment with social activities and events

- The opportunity to work with super smart, curious people

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- machine learning
- data science
- deep learning
- image processing

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