Client Facing Data Scientist, Ravelin

• 2 - 4 years experience as a Data Scientist, Data Analyst or Intelligence Analyst
• Strong critical thinking skills, intuitively curious and able to diagnose data issues
• Strong communication and presentation skills. Ability to effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Diligence, attention to detail, ability to prioritise and follow through on tasks
• Experience with SQL - ability to run complex queries to answer your own questions
• Experience with Python for Data Analysis
• Basic knowledge of supervised ML techniques

Desirable

• We are currently looking for a mid level data scientist to join a fantastic team of client-facing data scientists and client support analysts
• You will be working with data scientists and crime analysts to discover patterns and trends concerning fraud in our clients' data
• In this key role, you'll be applying exploratory analysis to form realistic and useful narratives from data, asking “why” as well as “what” and “how"
• You will interact directly and indirectly with clients to help them understand what is happening with their fraud, and help us to target our efforts ever more precisely
• Work directly with clients to provide fraud analytics and ML model insights
• Analyse datasets with millions of rows to identify fraud patterns, trends and emerging threats to improve client performance
• Discuss specific fraud problems with clients, in order to deeply understand how they manifest and to propose effective and elegant solutions
• Prepare reports and present findings of analysis to clients when required
• Identify new model features and improve model performance
• Optimise the performance of our graph networks using network analysis
• Get hands on experience with our cloud infrastructure and make the most of the available tools for enhancing our clients’ data and performance
• Build and automate internal tools in Python for optimising and improving our analytical capabilities

• Remote first - it’s up to you whether you come in to the office or work from home, and we also support Ravelinos who work internationally, on a temporary or permanent basis, through our partner Omnipresent
• Mental health support - we’ve partnered with Spill to provide round the clock access to therapists, we offer a 24/7 employee assistance programme through AXA, and we also book wellbeing days into everyone’s calendar each quarter
• Charity - we make monthly donations to various causes, and our Ravelinos are able to nominate charities through our Ravelin Gives Back initiative
• Volunteering - we organise in-person volunteering opportunities throughout the year
• Flexible hours
• Employer-contributed pension scheme
• Equity scheme
• Lunches twice a month and the office kitchen cupboards are stocked with treats and goodies on a weekly basis
• Home office budget
• One day each quarter dedicated to learning and personal development
• Individual yearly learning budget of £1000, and access to company wide training
• Comprehensive medical cover through AXA or US equivalents, including dental and optical cash back
• Remote fitness - virtual yoga twice a week, team HIIT sessions, and online Pilates class
• Socials - we do our best to include everyone in our social activities, whether you work remotely or you’re always in the office, and anyone at Ravelin can organise a social!

Total funding: $38.1m

Ravelin has developed machine learning-based technology that helps online merchants and their payment service providers reduce losses to fraud, and improve acceptance rates of orders.