Senior Data Scientist - product, scale up, fintech

Contract Type:

Full Time

Location:

Sydney - New South Wales

Industry:

Banking & Financial Services

Contact Name:

Jason Pretorius

Contact Email:

Jasonp@coxpurtell.com.au

Contact Phone:

0292203400

Date Published:

20-Jan-2026

 

 

Senior Data Scientist – Credit & Behaviour Modelling

This is a hands-on Senior Data Scientist role within a product-led fintech building consumer credit and payment products at scale.
The role sits close to core product, credit, and portfolio decisions – not as a side analytics function.

You’ll own credit and behavioural models end-to-end: from data exploration and modelling through to production deployment, monitoring, and real portfolio impact.

Salary: Up to $200k + Super
Location: Sydney or Melbourne(hybrid / remote supported)

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Build, extend, and maintain credit and behavioural models used in production

  • Own loan portfolio performance, including monitoring drift, stability, and outcomes

  • Perform exploratory analysis and clear data visualisation for decision-making

  • Partner closely with engineering to productionise models into a TypeScript-led backend

  • Coach and mentor engineers and data scientists on data, modelling, and ML practices

Technology Environment

  • AWS(Airflow / MWAA)

  • Python for analysis and modelling

  • JavaScript / TypeScript in the product layer

  • SQL for analytical workflows

  • Optional but valuable: S3, Glue, Athena, IAM, SageMaker

How This Role Actually Operates

  • Reports directly to the CTO

  • Small, high-trust team with real autonomy

  • Data Science split across Melbourne, with CTO and core engineering in Sydney

  • Models are expected to run in production, be monitored, and influence decisions

Send me your CV, let's talk about it.


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