Senior Data Scientist, Fraud Risk Detection

Job overview

The Senior Data Scientist, Fraud Risk Detection role is remote. Compensation is not specified. The position reports to the Senior Manager of Fraud Analytics and supports Experian’s Fraud Analytics & Commercialization function, which develops analytics and production-ready fraud solutions for financial institutions. The role investigates fraud patterns and develops features and machine-learning models that identify risky activity while limiting friction for legitimate customers. It contributes across problem definition, experimentation, model evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and communication of findings, while following data privacy, documentation, explainability, validation, and governance standards.

What you'll do

• Explore complex datasets to identify fraud patterns, attack methods, and behavioral signals
• translate fraud questions into testable hypotheses
• help build models for account opening, account takeover, and identity risk
• evaluate technical and business metrics
• develop and validate features
• write tested code and work with engineering on production deployment
• support model and feature monitoring
• prepare analyses and communicate findings
• apply privacy, documentation, explainability, validation, and governance standards.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior data scientist

fraud risk detection

fraud analytics

machine learning

python

feature engineering

model evaluation

identity risk

remote

experian

financial services analytics

data privacy

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• matching 401(k)
• flexible work environment
• flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, and sick time
• 12 paid holidays
• bonus plan.

Why this role

Requires 3+ years in data science, machine learning, statistical modeling, or a related quantitative field; a relevant bachelor’s or advanced degree; and Python proficiency. Familiarity with pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, and large-scale data tools is noted. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), flexible time off, and 12 paid holidays.

About the employer

Experian is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.