# Sr Data Scientist

**Company**: Nium
**Location**: Bangalore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Nium offers a Sr Data Scientist role in its Fraud & Loss Prevention team, focusing on developing AI/ML models to identify risks while ensuring these models are auditable, explainable, and compliant with data privacy laws.

The role involves understanding the coverage and accuracy of existing rules for anti-money laundering and financial crimes, supporting rules management, and ensuring data integrity across compliance and financial crime functions.

Key responsibilities include:

- Designing, deploying, and monitoring predictive models and AI algorithms to detect anomalies, fraud, or potential breaches

- Conducting deep-dive analyses into risk events to improve risk strategies and operational workflows

- Analyzing large datasets to identify patterns, anomalies, and emerging risks

- Performing data validation, cleansing, and reconciliation for regulatory reporting

- Ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements by building scalable reporting platforms and documenting data protocols

- Partnering with legal, product, and operations teams to translate complex technical findings into actionable business insights for senior management

- Maintaining auditability, traceability, and evidence generation within systems

Requirements include a degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Economics, or a related quantitative field, 4-6 years of experience in data science or machine-learning roles, proficiency in model development techniques, and prior experience in financial services or fintech.

Nium offers competitive salaries, performance bonuses, equity, medical coverage, a 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs, and a flexible working environment.

## Skills

### Required
- Statistics
- Mathematics
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Python
- Data Analysis

### Nice to have
- financial services
- fintech
- payments
- consulting
- compliance operations
- investigations
- model governance

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