Data Scientist
Bishopsgate
Competitive salary + benefits
ThreatMetrix®, A LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Company, provides an end-to-end platform for digital identity intelligence and trust decisioning. We instantly detect high-risk transactions and dynamically score them, enabling digital businesses to safely grow online revenue and personalize the digital experience for trusted customers. With ThreatMetrix, sales conversion rates rise and fewer customers get flagged for review. Fraud, security and payment operations run more efficiently. Operational costs decrease and, best of all, fraudsters often leave for greener pastures. We believe security doesn’t need to come at the expense of profitability. Security and fraud prevention simply needs to be better, not harder for legitimate customers. That’s profitability and security without compromise.
As a Data Scientist, you’ll use global data from the largest real-time fraud detection platform to craft solutions for our enterprise customers. Your experience with data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning will lead to immediate real-world impact in the form of lower customer friction, reduced fraud losses and as a result, increased customer profitability. You’ll leverage a real-time platform analyzing billions of transactions per month for some of the largest companies operating in Financial Services, Insurance, e-Commerce, and On-Demand Services. These tools will allow you to attain a unique perspective of the Internet and every persona connected to it. You’ll be continually collaborating with internal product and engineering teams, customer-facing account teams, and external business leaders and risk managers. The comprehensive policy you build will go head-to-head against some of the most motivated attackers in the world to protect billions in revenue.
Responsibilities
- Establish, maintain, and tune customer risk models leveraging thousands of data points from the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network and data feds from our customers
- Leverage large and complex data sources to help identify and flag fraud risk trends and develop solutions that detect them efficiently
- Explain complex patterns of behavior using data and models in a simple manner to non-technical audience
- Offline analysis of customer data to tune rules, exposes patterns, research anomalies, reduce false positives, and build executive and project-level reports
- Collaboration with ThreatMetrix teams including Products, Engineering, and your colleagues to continually redefine best practices
- Demonstrate a professional and customer-centric persona when interacting directly with customers via phone, e-mail, and chat
Ideal Candidates:
- Track record of scoping, developing and implementing machine learning or scorecard-based models
- Knowledge of cybercrime – account takeover, Card not Present (CNP) fraud, mule fraud, social engineering etc.
- Coding experience – SQL, Python (sklearn), R, SAS etc.
- Experience working with large and small datasets intuitively exposing meaningful correlations.
- Experience building external and executive reports
- A keen eye for detail, accuracy and strong critical thinking skills with advanced judgment capability
- Extensive multi-tasking and prioritization skills. Needs to excel in fast paced environment with frequently changing priorities
- Strong analytical skills - numerical degree preferred
Company Overview
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of relationship risk. We help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Identity Assurance, Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing and Customer Data Management. We are a fast-growing division of the RELX Group (REL). There is a lot of market opportunity. In particular for LexisNexis Risk Solutions the convergence of all types of relationship risk management is providing significant opportunity for future growth.
We are looking to hire a subject matter expert with deep knowledge of Financial Crime Compliance whose responsibility is to assist sales, product and strategy teams with direct customer interaction to advance the company’s ability to serve our customers.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, and RELX Group, are committed to being an equal opportunities employer. RELX group employs over 30000 people across 46 countries, serving 180 countries across the world and as a truly global organization, we value people of all cultures, nationalities, races, religions, ethnicities, regardless of characteristics such as gender, gender identity and/or expression, age, disability or sexual orientation. We welcome applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.