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Forward Financing is a financial technology company focused on providing flexible capital to small businesses across America. The Lead Data Scientist will drive end-to-end data science initiatives, developing and deploying advanced models and production machine learning pipelines for credit risk, pricing, collections, fraud, and other business use cases. The role also involves cross-functional partnership, technical leadership, mentoring, and communicating analytical insights to stakeholders.\n\nResponsibilities\nDesign, develop and deploy advanced statistical or machine learning models for credit risk, pricing, collections, fraud, and other high-impact business use cases that drive better data-driven decisions\nLead end-to-end delivery of data science initiatives from problem framing and model design through deployment, monitoring and ongoing maintenance\nPartner with cross-functional teams including Portfolio Strategy, Engineering, Product, Underwriting, Sales and Collections to integrate models into our applications, and proactively identify and solve problems in critical business areas\nDefine and set standards for model development, code quality, and documentation; guide technical design decisions across the team\nAct as a technical mentor to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and rigorous analytical standards\nCommunicate complex technical concepts and business implications to both technical and non-technical stakeholders\nBuild and maintain production machine learning pipelines and monitoring systems to ensure models are reliable, scalable and continuously improving\n\nSkills\n8+ years of hands-on model development and deployment experience using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques such as generalized linear models, gradient boosting and deep learning\nExpert in Python, SQL and Git\nExperience deploying and managing models within a cloud platform (AWS, Sagemaker)\nStrong foundation in statistics and machine learning, and knowledge of experimental design\nExcellent project management and communication skills\nStrong critical thinking and problem-solving ability\nBachelor's degree in Financial/Apfplied Math, Operations Research, Economics, and/or Statistics\nDeep experience in building and deploying credit risk models, especially underwriting models, in the fintech, lending or financial services industry is highly preferred\nExperience with real-time models, decisioning engines, and production-grade machine learning pipelines is preferred\nExperience with workflow orchestration tools, such as Metaflow is preferred\nNice to have experience: cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks), Arize, Metaflow, Sagemaker, decision engines (e.g. Taktile), feature stores (e.g. Tecton)\nMasters/PhD is a plus\n\nBenefits\nMedical benefits\nDental benefits\nVision benefits\nCommuter benefits\nFlexible time-off policy\nPaid parental leave\n401k match for US employees\nWellness reimbursement\nVolunteering days\nAnnual professional development budget\nCharitable donation match\nEmployee Choice policy allowing almost all employees to decide where they work\nFlexible hours\n\nCompany Overview\nForward Financing is a fintech company that provides fast, flexible working capital to small businesses nationwide. 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