Lead Data Scientist

Forward Financing
Alberta, Ontario
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 160,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Team collaboration","Presentation"]

Lead a team-wide data science agenda to design, deploy and monitor advanced ML models for credit risk, pricing, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into applications, establish standards, mentor colleagues, and communicate complex insights to stakeholders while maintaining production ML pipelines for reliable, scalable impact across the business.

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Forward Financing
Forward Financing
2 months ago

Lead Data Scientist

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Job Summary

Lead a team-wide data science agenda to design, deploy and monitor advanced ML models for credit risk, pricing, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into applications, establish standards, mentor colleagues, and communicate complex insights to stakeholders while maintaining production ML pipelines for reliable, scalable impact across the business.
Location: Alberta, Ontario
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop and deploy advanced statistical or machine learning models for credit risk, pricing, collections, fraud, and other high-impact business use cases that drive better data-driven decisions
  • •Lead end-to-end delivery of data science initiatives from problem framing and model design through deployment, monitoring and ongoing maintenance
  • •Partner with cross-functional teams including Portfolio Strategy, Engineering, Product, Underwriting, Sales and Collections to integrate models into our applications, and proactively identify and solve problems in critical business areas
  • •Define and set standards for model development, code quality, and documentation; guide technical design decisions across the team
  • •Act as a technical mentor to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and rigorous analytical standards

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 160,000 - 220,000 annually
Perks:MedicalDentalVisionRrsp MatchWellness StipendVolunteering Days

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of hands-on model development and deployment experience using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques such as generalized linear models, gradient boosting and deep learning
  • •Deep experience in building and deploying credit risk models, especially underwriting models, in the fintech, lending or financial services industry is highly preferred
  • •Experience with real-time models, decisioning engines, and production-grade machine learning pipelines is preferred
  • •Expert in Python, SQL and Git
  • •Experience with workflow orchestration tools, such as Metaflow is preferred
Experience:8+ yearsFintechCredit riskMachine learningData science
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingTeam collaborationPresentation
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonSQLGitMetaflowAWSSagemakerSnowflakeDatabricks

Company Brief

Forward Financing
Forward Financing is a Boston-based fintech lender that provides fast, flexible revenue-based working capital to small businesses nationwide, using proprietary underwriting and capital markets facilities to deliver timely funding solutions.
Industry: Lending
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Private Equity Backed
Headquarters: Boston, United States
Founded: 2012
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