Lead Fraud Strategy Data Scientist
About the role
The Lead Fraud Strategy Data Scientist position at Vanguard focuses on developing sophisticated rules and strategies to enhance business outcomes and minimize risks related to fraud. The role involves utilizing statistical and predictive analytics, machine learning, and data visualization to design prevention strategies, provide actionable insights, and consult with business leaders on leveraging these insights for strategic decision‑making.
Responsibilities
- Develop fraud rules and strategies in fraud prevention systems.
- Independently perform sophisticated data analytics using structured and unstructured data.
- Manage and support projects and processes related to fraud strategies, including governance frameworks, data structures, and deliverables.
- Leverage analytics and statistics knowledge to determine risk and recommend plans.
- Collect, analyze, and communicate statistics related to daily fraud mitigation operations to stakeholders.
- Analyze and support the delivery of products and review the validation of scalable analyses.
- Review products to ensure they meet stakeholders' needs.
- Build and manage vendor relationships supporting the delivery of analytical capabilities.
- Ensure alignment between department or team deliverables and enterprise goals.
- Develop strategic relationships to understand business processes and develop risk mitigation processes.
- Bring structure to requests and translate requirements into an analytic approach.
- Provide the team's recommendations to key business partners as needed.
- Develop understanding of industry trends and advocate for implementation of governance practices.
- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Minimum of five years related work experience in fraud strategy or fraud data science.
- Understanding of statistical methods, including classical statistics, probability theory, econometrics, and time‑series analysis.
- Strong familiarity with data extraction in environments like SQL.
- Working knowledge of Python, Hive, Spark, Athena, and Amazon SageMaker.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience; graduate degree preferred.
Special Factors
Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission: to work for the long‑term financial wellbeing of our clients, to lead through products and services that transform our clients' lives, and to learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in‑person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission‑driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long‑term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.