Lead Data Scientist

AI Engineer / Data Scientist

3 days in Leeds or Nottingham

We are working with a leading data and analytics organisation supporting banks and lenders by analysing large-scale consumer and transactional data.

The Role You'll join a specialist AI & Machine Learning team building modern credit risk and decisioning models. The focus is on moving beyond traditional scorecards to advanced ML and AI techniques applied to real-world lending problems.

Key Responsibilities

Build and enhance credit risk and lending models

Apply ML and AI techniques including predictive modelling, clustering, segmentation, and transformer-based models

Modernise legacy models using Python-based ML approaches

Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deploy models into production

Required Experience

Background in banking, fintech lending, credit bureaus, or consulting with lending experience

Hands-on experience building credit risk models

Strong Python and SQL skills

Experience using ML and AI models in regulated environments

Logistics

3 days in office in either Leeds or Nottingham