Senior Data Scientist

Job Description

About the role

The Fraud Risk & Control Detection Team is seeking a Data Scientist to contribute to their innovative model development for fraud detection.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with data scientists, data engineers, technical leads, and product managers to bring game-changing models to production.
• Build data science applications from inception to production.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams including data scientists, software engineers, data engineers, and product managers.
• Present and communicate key findings and project progress to senior business leaders.

Requirements

• MS in data science, statistics, or similar quantitative field with 4+ years of practical experience.
• PhD in data science, statistics, or similar quantitative field with 2+ years of practical experience.
• Hands-on expertise in data extraction, cleaning, and preparation; feature extraction; model training and evaluation.
• Proven experience building analytics that deliver useful insights from large datasets.
• Proven track record of delivering production machine learning tools that solve business problems.

Skills

• Excellent programming skills in Python and Pandas.
• Familiarity with Sagemaker and PyCharm.
• Strong communication skills to work collaboratively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in standard machine learning approaches, statistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and deep learning techniques.
• Bonus points for building production ML model containers at scale (Docker, SageMaker, Flask, Aerospike).
• Bonus points for dashboarding capabilities (PowerBI, Tableau, Looker).

Benefits

The value you deliver includes:

• Base salary range: $97,000 - $185,000 USD per year.
• Comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support.
• A competitive retirement plan.
• Moderate paid time off and parental leave.
• A charitable giving employee match program.
• Student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement.
• Learning resources to develop your career.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $97,000-185,000 USD per year. Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate's relevant experience, and other factors.

Schedule

Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model: Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

Qualifications

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.