The Role
Build, validate, deploy, and monitor real-time credit risk and fraud detection models for fintech underwriting. Develop thin-file models, optimize approval rates, credit limits, and pricing, and conduct A/B experiments. Create data pipelines and retraining workflows, integrate models into APIs, assess drift and stability, and translate analytical findings into business recommendations while balancing risk and growth.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are looking for a data-driven and impact-oriented Credit Risk Data Scientist to join
our high-performance fintech team. This role sits at the intersection of risk, product,
and growth, where you will design and deploy intelligent credit decisioning systems that
directly influence business outcomes.
What we expect you to do:
- Build, validate, and deploy real-time credit risk and fraud detection models to
support underwriting decisions
- Work with large-scale, imbalanced datasets to extract meaningful risk insights
- Develop thin-file / new-to-credit models using alternative data sources (mobile,
transactional, behavioural signals)
- Optimize credit underwriting strategies including approval rates, credit limits,
and pricing decisions
- Design and execute A/B experiments to improve portfolio performance while
maintaining risk thresholds
- Continuously monitor model performance, stability, and drift; recommend
recalibration strategies
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Growth teams to integrate models
into scalable APIs and decision systems
- Build and maintain automated data pipelines and model retraining workflows
- Balance risk vs. growth trade-offs, aligning with business objectives in a fintech
lending environment
- Translate complex analytical outputs into clear business recommendations for
stakeholders
Requirements
What you bring to the table:
- 2–5 years of experience in credit risk analytics, lending analytics, or fintech data
science.
- Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Computer Science,
Economics, Applied Mathematics, or related discipline.
- Hands-on experience in statistical modeling, machine learning, and predictive
analytics.
- Strong ability to work with messy, real-world datasets (incomplete, noisy, biased)
and large-scale data processing.
- Experience in small business lending, fintech, or alternative credit ecosystems.
- Familiarity with model governance, validation frameworks, and explainability
techniques (e.g., SHAP).
- Exposure to cloud environments (AWS) and modern data engineering workflows.
Technical Skills Required:
- SQL & Snowflake for data extraction, transformation, and large-scale querying.
- Python for modeling, automation, and data analysis (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit
learn, etc.).
- Tableau (or similar BI tools) for data visualization and stakeholder reporting.
- Understanding of ML lifecycle (training, validation, deployment, monitoring).
- Exposure to API integration and production-level model deployment.
Benefits
Skills Required
- 2-5 years of experience in credit risk analytics, lending analytics, or fintech data science
- Master's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline
- Hands-on experience in statistical modeling, machine learning, and predictive analytics
- Ability to work with incomplete, noisy, biased, and large-scale real-world datasets
- Experience in small business lending, fintech, or alternative credit ecosystems
- Familiarity with model governance, validation frameworks, and explainability techniques such as SHAP
- Exposure to AWS and modern data engineering workflows
- SQL and Snowflake experience for data extraction, transformation, and large-scale querying
- Python experience with Pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn
- Tableau or similar business intelligence tools for visualization and stakeholder reporting
- Understanding of the machine learning lifecycle, including training, validation, deployment, and monitoring
- Exposure to API integration and production-level model deployment
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The Company
What We Do
TekFriday is a nascent technology solution company founded last year by individuals who have a collated total of 50 years' experience delivering quality products and services in the Alternative Financial Services domain The company, having footprints in both Miami, FL and Hyderabad, India is founded by professionals in the Short-Terms loan industry. TekFriday is, a dynamic and young company, on an aggressive growth path to expand from its core team of 200+ people having a diverse skills, backgrounds but united in its goal to put a mark on the Alternative Financial Services domain and be the best. TekFriday is building solutions which are geared towards being industry leaders and pioneering ground-breaking solutions to the Short-Term Loan Industry in North America
