Data Scientist

Role Overview

As a Data Scientist at Kroo Bank, you will play a key role in helping the company use data more effectively across various business areas, partnering with teams across Product, Risk, Operations, Compliance, and Engineering. You will build, evaluate, and deploy data science solutions that support strategic decision making and improve customer experiences.

What You Will Do

You will build and iterate on statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems, partner with stakeholders to define problem statements and implementation plans, conduct data exploration and feature engineering, develop robust evaluation frameworks, and support deployment of models into production.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will contribute to high quality data practices, apply probability and statistical inference, and collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Audit stakeholders to ensure data science work is appropriately governed and documented.

Requirements

• Experience building and evaluating statistical and machine learning models in a commercial environment
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to conduct basic data collection and data cleaning
• Ability to perform data analysis and apply visualisation techniques
• Strong programming fundamentals with experience writing maintainable Python code
• Experience using SQL and dbt to extract, transform, and validate data
• Ability to communicate effectively and manage data projects proficiently

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work with a digital first bank
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment
• Opportunity to contribute to high quality data practices