Senior Data Scientist

International award-winning executive recruitment expert Monroe Consulting Group is recruiting on behalf of a Fintech company. As the business keeps developing, our client is seeking a talented for Data Scientist position. The job is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Job Summary:

The dedicated Data Scientist will be analyzing and modelling data to identify the opportunity as well as improve the business process. The ideal candidate would have strong experience in credit risk modelling with Python or R.

Job Responsibilities:

  • To pioneer Data Scientist team in Vietnam branch and take full ownership of turning discoveries and ideas into machine learning models
  • Identify opportunity and conduct R&D to improve efficiency & effectiveness of business process using ML model across variety of fields such as risk, marketing, collection, customer service, underwriting; by using our vast amount and unique set of data
  • Actively contribute to taking Data Science at the company to the next level
  • Communicate clearly the potential impact of data products to relevant stakeholders

Job Requirements:

  • 3+ years of industry experience in working at financial domain for a consumer-facing company
  • Experience building robust end-to-end predictive models using the latest Machine Learning techniques and methodologies
  • Proficiency in Python or R.
  • Exposure to RDBMS (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and No-SQL platforms (i.e. S3)
  • Good communicator with both technical and business stakeholders
  • Good English communicator
  • Experience with alternate data to evaluate credit risk (plus)
  • Experience in building state of the art Computer Vision or NLP models (plus)