Senior Data Scientist

Join a growing South African fintech that's helping businesses make smarter credit decisions through predictive analytics and AI.

I am helping to source strong candidates for an innovative fintech moving from startup to scale-up phase, with a mission to help B2B customers extend credit confidently, grow sales, and contribute to economic growth through data-driven decision making.

As they continue to invest heavily in their analytics capability and modern data platform, they're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join the team and play a key role in developing and enhancing credit risk models used by customers across South Africa.

• Building and improving credit risk and payment default prediction models
• Developing and deploying machine learning solutions using Python and/or R
• Working closely with the data platform team as they continue their Snowflake journey
• Contributing to modern MLOps and AI best practices
• Helping shape the future of analytics within a growing fintech business
• Turning complex financial and behavioural data into actionable risk insights

• Proven experience in Credit Risk Modelling (essential)

Experience within:

• Financial Services
• Fintech
• Credit, Lending, Banking, or Insurance environments

• Python and/or R
• Statistical modelling and machine learning
• Predictive analytics

Nice to have:

• MLOps experience
• Snowflake exposure
• Passion for AI and modern data science practices

• Fast-growing fintech with a genuine social and economic impact
• Small, highly skilled technology team with significant influence
• High level of ownership and autonomy
• Opportunity to work directly with decision-makers
• Collaborative environment focused on learning and development
• Exposure to modern cloud, data, AI and analytics technologies