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FIS

Lead Data Scientist

FIS

. Deploy data-driven exploratory analysis, predictive models, and AI solutions to solve business problems across financial services, particularly Risk, Fraud, Marketing, and Portfolio Management .

Posted 11/3/2026full-timeUnited StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudNumpyPandasPySparkPythonScikit-LearnSparkSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Deploy data-driven exploratory analysis, predictive models, and AI solutions to solve business problems across financial services, particularly Risk, Fraud, Marketing, and Portfolio Management
  • Convert machine learning lifecycle results into actionable product recommendations for internal and external presentation
  • Lead the design, development, validation, deployment, and monitoring of advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions
  • Analyze and prepare data using data structures and algorithms, assembling datasets from standard and novel data sources
  • Apply machine learning, predictive analytics, natural language processing, and emerging AI techniques to solve complex payments and financial services problems
  • Design and execute experiments, hypothesis testing frameworks, and statistical analyses
  • Establish and promote best practices in data science, machine learning, feature engineering, experimentation, model governance, and MLOps
  • Communicate analytical findings through storytelling, executive-ready presentations, dashboards, visualizations, and self-service analytics tools
  • Stay current on machine learning, AI, Generative AI, and financial services analytics trends and bring relevant innovations to the team

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Master's degree or higher in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline
  • 5+ years of experience developing and deploying end-to-end machine learning, predictive analytics, and data science solutions within the Payments, Banking, or Financial Services industry
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
  • Experience with big data technologies such as Spark and PySpark is a plus
  • Hands-on experience with data wrangling, feature engineering, and model development using Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, or Plotly
  • Demonstrated experience building and deploying machine learning models in a production or near-production environment
  • Proficiency with data visualization and business intelligence tools such as Tableau or equivalent
  • Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills; ability to translate ambiguous business problems into rigorous analytical frameworks
  • Ability to work collaboratively across product, engineering, and business teams
  • Experience within the Payments, Banking, or Financial Services industry
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks, including MLflow, Model Registry, collaborative notebooks, and MLOps workflows
  • Experience deploying cloud-native machine learning solutions, particularly within AWS environments
  • Working familiarity with Transformer Models and Agentic AI technologies
  • Knowledge of model governance, regulatory compliance, and MLOps best practices within regulated financial services environments
  • Current and future sponsorship are not available for this position

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • A voice in the future of fintech
  • Always-on learning and development
  • Collaborative work environment
  • Opportunities to give back
  • Competitive salary and benefits