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As a digital first bank, we use data science to help us make smarter decisions, improve customer outcomes, and build products that customers trust and love.\nThe rapid pace of change within fintech creates exciting opportunities to apply advanced analytics, machine learning, and experimentation to real business challenges. As a Data Scientist, you will play a key role in helping Kroo use data more effectively across a wide range of business areas, partnering with teams across Product, Risk, Operations, Compliance, and Engineering.\nThis role is responsible for building, evaluating, and deploying data science solutions that support strategic decision making and improve customer experiences. You will work on high impact initiatives across areas such as credit risk, fraud prevention, customer engagement, and operational efficiency, helping the business make informed decisions through robust analysis, experimentation, and modelling.\nHow you'll contribute:\nBuild and iterate on statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems across areas such as credit risk, fraud, customer engagement, and operational efficiency.\nPartner with stakeholders to define problem statements, success metrics, data requirements, and practical implementation plans.\nConduct data exploration and feature engineering to uncover drivers of outcomes and improve model performance and interpretability.\nDevelop robust evaluation frameworks, including appropriate baselines, validation strategies, monitoring metrics, and model performance reporting.\nSupport deployment of models into production in collaboration with Engineering, contributing to reproducible pipelines and model documentation.\nMonitor models in production, identify performance drift, propose improvements, and support ongoing recalibration or retraining where required.\nApply probability and statistical inference to design experiments, interpret results, and provide clear recommendations to stakeholders.\nContribute to high quality data practices by identifying data quality issues, supporting cleaning and normalisation approaches, and defining standards for reliable datasets.\nWrite maintainable, well tested Python code using common data science libraries, and follow engineering best practices appropriate for production systems.\nUse SQL and dbt to extract, transform, and validate data for analysis and modelling, ensuring traceability and reliability of outputs.\nCollaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Audit stakeholders to ensure data science work is appropriately governed, documented, and aligned with regulatory expectations.\nSupport continuous improvement across data science methodologies, tooling, and ways of working.\nRequirements\nRequired skills and behaviours:\nExperience building and evaluating statistical and machine learning models in a commercial environment.\nStrong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to translate business challenges into practical data science solutions.\nAbility to conduct basic data collection by independently sourcing and defining required datasets, partnering with stakeholders to clarify data needs and ensure appropriate coverage and traceability.\nAbility to perform data cleaning effectively by independently applying robust cleaning approaches, proactively identifying data quality issues, and contributing to improving data reliability and standards.\nAbility to conduct basic data analysis by independently performing exploratory analysis and statistical investigation, translating findings into clear insights and actionable recommendations.\nStrong programming fundamentals with experience writing maintainable Python code for analysis and modelling, contributing to shared codebases through good practices, testing, and documentation.\nExperience using SQL and dbt to extract, transform, validate, and analyse data.\nAbility to apply visualisation techniques to produce clear, purposeful visualisations and model performance summaries that support decision making across technical and non technical audiences.\nAbility to communicate effectively by explaining complex analytical concepts clearly and tailoring messages to a wide range of stakeholders.\nStrong attention to detail, ensuring outputs are validated, reproducible, and documented in line with governance and compliance requirements.\nAbility to manage data projects proficiently by planning and delivering work to agreed timelines, managing competing priorities, and contributing positively to team delivery processes.\nExperience working collaboratively with Product, Risk, Operations, Compliance, and Engineering teams is beneficial.\nAwareness of model governance, risk management, and regulatory considerations within a financial services environment is advantageous.\nBenefits\nHybrid Working\nAt Kroo Bank, we have a hybrid/ flexible policy that gives both individuals and teams a lot of freedom when it comes to using the office space to boost productivity. Our London office is a great resource to collaborate and candidates should be able to attend 1-2 days per week regularly to align with how we work at the moment.\nDiversity and Inclusion\nWe wholeheartedly uphold our commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Every employee is highly regarded, respected, and supported without any form of judgement or prejudice. We consider Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion as fundamental pillars guiding our path in all aspects of our bank. We also ensure that reasonable adjustments are made available to all candidates throughout the recruitment process.\nTo all Recruitment Agencies\nAt Kroo Bank, agency resumes are strictly prohibited. Do not submit agency resumes or forward them to our job advertisements or Kroo Bank employees. Be aware that Kroo Bank will not assume any responsibility for fees incurred due to unsolicited resumes.\nTo ensure a fair and efficient application process, all candidates are kindly requested to submit their applications directly through the advertised platform. We kindly ask that you refrain from reaching out to the company or its employees via email, LinkedIn, or any other communication channels for inquiries or updates. Please note that any attempts to contact us through these channels will not receive a response. 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