Data Science Manager

White City, London and your home!

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About Salary Finance

Salary Finance is a leading global FinTech platform. We support a community of 4M employees across 575 clients (inc 20% of the FTSE 100) in the UK and US, and provide a suite of financial employee benefits, to help employees improve their financial health and happiness. Our platform provides salary-linked savings, loans, pay advances, insurance and financial education. We have a team of over 250 brilliant and passionate colleagues in 3 countries and have the backing of great investors (Blenheim Chalcot, Legal & General, Experian, Goldman Sachs, Royal London, Virgin Money) with £100M in equity and £500M in debt funding raised to-date. We have won over 70 awards for our work, including MoneyAge's Consumer Champion of the Year, Prince Charles' BITC Responsible Business of the Year, and the Global Impact Award from Sadiq Khan for our US growth.

We were co-founded by entrepreneurs Asesh Sarkar (CEO), Daniel Shakhani, and former Head of Google UK and Ireland Dan Cobley (Chairman) and are authorised by the FCA.

Your role in our mission

We are looking for an exceptional Data Science Manager. Reporting to the Head of Data Science & Credit Risk you will lead a rapidly growing team of talented and ambitious Data Scientists and help them reach their potential, grow and maximise their impact and value they create for the business.

The essentials

  • You have 2+ years of experience leading data science teams in a fast paced environment
  • You have experience with hiring, coaching and leading diverse high performing teams
  • You have strong knowledge and understanding of modern ML methodologies and statistical methods and supporting ML model deployment to live environments
  • You have decent knowledge and good understanding of SQL and R or Python
  • You don’t mind being hands-on when necessary
  • You are able to present complex technical details, concepts and information in an easy to digest and understand format to senior management
  • You have a high tolerance for ambiguity and frequently changing priorities and a genuine can-do attitude with the ability to self-drive projects to completion

The “good to haves” but not essential

  • You have 6+ years of work experience in Data Science or other analytics teams
  • You have a bachelor's or postgraduate degree in a STEM subject or any other equivalent experience
  • You have work experience in the Financial Services / FinTech sector
  • You have work experience in ML building teams within Credit Risk / Decision Science
  • You have experience working with cloud based technologies for ML (especially GCP or AWS)
  • You have good knowledge of ML scorecard monitoring and its importance
  • You have experience with version control tools (e.g. Git)

What you’ll do

  • Lead and manage a team of Data Scientists and help them improve their technical and presentation skills and grow to reach their full potential in a diverse and inclusive environment
  • Ensure that focus is on the appropriate priorities and aligned to the business and team OKRs
  • Supervise the development, testing, validation and deployment of ML models in live environments and their ongoing performance monitoring
  • Create and maintain guidelines for ML model development, validation and testing as well as documentation to ensure consistency, efficiency and best practices
  • Manage the development and maintenance of high quality data structures and feature stores to facilitate efficient and scalable model building and reporting
  • Supervise the building and maintenance of automated reports and dashboards with KPIs to monitor business performance
  • Summarise and present recommendations and proposals to senior management with actionable insights
  • Work within cross-functional teams to deliver key business initiatives

What’s in it for you?

  • Company bonus scheme
  • 25 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday
  • Hybrid working arrangements so you can work from the office and from home with a budget to help you get set up
  • Generous company benefits to include pension and life assurance and an annual allowance to spend on medical insurance, health cash plan, denplan, gym memberships
  • Enhanced policies that are family and pet friendly, to include company sick pay and Peternity leave
  • Annual personal learning budget 
  • Great career development in a fast paced environment 
  • Regular company socials (post covid, although we've got quite good at virtual ones too!)
  • Volunteer days as part of our CSR program
  • Being part of a collaborative and entrepreneurial team working in our brand new, purpose-built offices at Scale Space, White City
  • Being part of a community of Blenheim Chalcot-backed fintech growth businesses including ClearScore, Liberis, Kodoo and Modulr, with opportunities to share and learn together
  • More great perks to include complimentary fresh fruit weekly, cycle to work, help to save and much more! 

Who you are

We embrace our differences but there’s one thing we like to share our values, so it’s important to us you are:

  • Fearless, and able to make the impossible possible.
  • Responsible, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
  • Dedicated and want to commit to an exciting journey even through the highs and lows.
  • Empathetic and truly care about every colleague and customer.
  • United, because you understand we achieve more when we work as a team.
  • Humble, and take feedback as a way to continuously improve.

We’re looking for people that will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team and are passionate about what we do. If you want to join a team that is changing people’s lives for the better then we’d love to hear from you.

Learn more at salaryfinance.com

Salary Finance is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: AWS Credit risk Finance FinTech GCP Git KPIs Machine Learning ML models Model deployment Python R SQL STEM Testing

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Country: United Kingdom
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