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Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.\nWe believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realise their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.\nWe are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.\nIf you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people’s lives, then we would love to hear from you.\nCo-Development Business Unit is hiring for Data Scientist\nYou will work in Singapore Government Agencies\nThis is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is 1 year.\nInternal Code: A26410\nWhat will you do?\nThe Data Scientist is embedded within the Data Science and AI Division (DSAD), working as part of the Fraud Analytics Models (FAM) team. The role will support the maintenance and expansion of FAM 2.0, which detects misuse of public training grant.\nThis includes addressing the methodology and threshold review backlog; building and operationalising the FAM 2.0 Technical Dashboard; and assessing how new schemes can be progressively brought within FAM 2.0's fraud-risk coverage.\nThe candidate is expected to contribute to reliable fraud-risk analytics, clear methodology and sustainable implementation and to build up DSAD's in-house capability along the way.\nMethodology and Threshold Review: Review and recalibrate FAM 2.0 model methodologies and thresholds for prioritised backlog items. This includes back-testing, impact assessment, analytical specifications, validation approaches, gap analyses and documentation.\nRisk Model Enhancement: Translate business, policy and scheme requirements into changes to fraud-risk scenarios, indicators, features, thresholds and analytical logic.\nTechnical Dashboard Build: Build and enhance monitoring for model performance (precision, recall), data drift and concept drift, including alert logic, visualisations and deployment support. Design performance measures that account for delayed and incomplete investigation outcomes.\nNew Scheme Assessment: Assess new schemes' structures, eligibility rules, claims processes and known fraud risks. Map relevant patterns against the existing FAM 2.0 risk taxonomy and recommend how each scheme can be brought into coverage.\nGovernance and Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain clear methodology and change records. Communicate findings, trade-offs, dependencies and recommended actions to programme owners, FAM stakeholders, engineers and management.\nDocumentation and Knowledge Transfer: Produce reproducible code, analyses and documentation throughout the engagement.\nRequirements\nWhat are we looking for?\nExperience handling the technical challenges to fraud or risk modelling, including imbalanced data and delayed, incomplete or evolving outcome labels.\nExperience designing or implementing production model-monitoring approaches, including data drift, concept drift and alert thresholds.\nExperience building analytical dashboards using Tableau or an equivalent platform.\nExperience with CI/CD, MLOps controls or the operational deployment of analytical models.\nExperience with Spark or PySpark and enterprise data platforms, particularly AWS Redshift and AWS Glue.\nExperience with network or graph analytics to identify related entities or coordinated patterns.\nExperience working with workforce, training, grants, claims or regulatory datasets.\nPrior experience in Singapore public-sector engagements or familiarity with government data-classification requirements.\nStrong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with a rigorous and detail-oriented approach to work.\nAbility to structure ambiguous requirements into clear assessment, methodology and implementation phases.\nClear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical findings and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.\nAbility to integrate quickly into an existing team, working independently while collaborating across data science, engineering, platform, programme and business teams.\nProactive management of delivery risks, dependencies and competing BAU and enhancement priorities.\nBenefits\nWhat do we offer in return?\nCompetitive Compensation: Market competitive salary and variable performance bonus aligned to your skills, impact, and contribution.\nBenefits: Outpatient medical, specialist medical coverage and generous customisable flexi benefits, or flexi allowance; life and health insurance, thoughtful perks like special occasions “red packet” and CNY goodies, etc.\nEmployee Wellness: Support for your physical, mental, and overall well-being through year-round initiatives.\nGrowth & Development: Learning programmes, certification support, and a dedicated staff development budget. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)\nCareer Progression: Structured career pathways that enable you to grow along a technical/domain expert track or a leadership track.\nCompetency Framework: A structured and practical framework to support you to develop, perform, and succeed.\nFlexible Work Arrangement: Staff may choose to work flexi-place, flexi-time, and flexi-load based on existing framework\nWhy you'll love working with us?\nIf you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated and talented peers, we welcome you to join us. We provide all employees with equal opportunities to grow and develop with us. We believe your success is our success.\nDoes it sound like something you are interested in exploring further? Please be in touch with our team for an initial chat.\nActivate Interactive Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Activate Interactive Pte Ltd does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.\nProtecting your privacy and the security of your data are longstanding top priorities for Activate Interactive Pte Ltd.\nYour personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Activate Interactive Pte Ltd’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes.\nPlease consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.activate.sg/privacy-policy) to know more about how we collect, use, and transfer the personal data of our candidates. 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