Senior Data Scientist - Compliance & Fraud Intelligence Unit

About Mozn

About The Role

What You'Ll Do

• Lead initiatives to develop and implement strategies for fraud detection and AML.
• Interact heavily with SME as well as Enterprise clients.
• Understand pain points and gaps, build a project plan with clear deliverables and execute on it.
• Plan, research and experiment customized project-based solutions.
• Conduct research, experimentation, and optimization to enhance technical solutions for detecting fraudulent activities.
• Plan and execute towards the training of ML models then deploying them.
• Help shape the roadmap for the development of our fraud and AML solutions.
• Stay updated with industry trends, best practices, and regulatory requirements related to fraud detection, AML, and financial crime prevention.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Data Science, AI, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• At least 5 years experience in leading advanced data science projects.
• A minimum of 3 years in client facing engagements in the field of fraud prevention and AML.
• Strong communication skills to collect insights from clients, share and present findings.
• Proficient in handling and analysing large datasets using SQL and Python.
• Hands-on experience in data extraction, visualisation, analysis, and transformation.
• Expert in building and maintaining advanced ML and statistical models, experience in graph analytics and using graph networks will be advantageous.
• Skilled in utilising databases, data warehousing, data modelling techniques and feature generation / feature engineering.
• Ability to create and manage complex multi-stage data pipelines.
• Experience in building fraud detection models, or consulting on fraud detection / fraud prevention systems or AML is highly advantageous.
• Proficiency in English language and Arabic languages is required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and adaptability

Benefits

• Why Mozn?
• You will be at the forefront of an exciting time for the Middle East, joining a high-growth rocket-ship in an exciting space.
• You will be given a lot of responsibility and trust. We believe that the best results come when the people responsible for a function are given the freedom to do what they think is best.
• The fundamentals will be taken care of: competitive compensation, top-tier health insurance, and an enabling culture so that you can focus on what you do best
• You will enjoy a fun and dynamic workplace working alongside some of the greatest minds in AI.
• We believe strength lies in difference, embracing all for who they are and empowered to be the best version of themselves