Role Summary

Senior Data Scientist focused on fraud strategy analytics and operational monitoring across a consumer lending portfolio. You will turn fraud data, scorecard performance, and decisioning outcomes into actionable policy, rule, and reporting recommendations partnering closely with fraud operations, product, credit/risk, data engineering, and external vendors. Day-to-day responsibilities include monitoring, trend detection, third-party signal assessment, and cross-functional execution.

Key Responsibilities

Translate fraud data and model outputs into explicit policy, rule, and threshold recommendations for the decision engine, and partnering with cross-functional teams to prioritize and implement them.

Monitor portfolio fraud performance loss rates, capture rates, false-positive rates, approval impact, vintage trends, and segment-level KPIs and surface issues with proposed actions.

Track scorecard and model performance (PSI, score drift, KS, decay) and recommend recalibration, rule adjustments, or escalation when performance degrades.

Detect emerging fraud trends, rings, and cross-channel vulnerabilities through analytics on application, behavioral, device, and third-party data; size the impact and propose mitigations.

Assess and benchmark third-party fraud and identity signals (identity verification, device intelligence, consortium data, bank/transaction data); recommend which to onboard, retire, or reweight.

Partner with fraud operations to monitor real-time fraud trends, interpret investigator findings, and convert case-level insights into rule, policy, and reporting changes.

Design and analyze champion/challenger tests and policy backtests to quantify the impact of strategy changes on fraud rates, approvals, and downstream credit performance.

Produce regular fraud reporting and executive deep dives loss attribution, typology trends, decisioning outcomes for senior leadership.

Collaborate with product, data engineering, credit/r Role Summary