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Fraud Data Scientist
As a Fraud Data Scientist at Barclays, you will be responsible for the development and enhancement of fraud detection systems. Applying advanced analytical methods and data-driven approaches, you’ll improve our ability to detect and prevent fraud across a variety of banking products and services. You’ll work closely with other experts in the field, helping us stay one step ahead in addressing fraud risks.
Requirements
To be successful as a Fraud Data Scientist, you should have:
- A degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative discipline (or equivalent relevant experience).
- Proven experience in fraud analytics, scam prevention, financial crime, or cybersecurity, preferably within financial services, banking, or a regulated environment.
- Strong analytical and coding capabilities, with hands-on experience in Python, R, SQL, machine learning techniques, and data science frameworks to develop and enhance fraud detection models.
Highly Valued Skills
- Experience leading, mentoring, or managing teams of data scientists, analysts, or other technical professionals.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex analytical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of risk management, governance, regulatory requirements, and control frameworks within a financial services environment.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
Purpose of the Role
To use innovative data analytics and machine learning techniques to extract valuable insights from the bank's data reserves, leveraging these insights to inform strategic decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and drive innovation across the organisation.
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Accountabilities
- Identification, collection, extraction of data from various sources, including internal and external sources.
- Performing data cleaning, wrangling, and transformation to ensure its quality and suitability for analysis.
- Development and maintenance of efficient data pipelines for automated data acquisition and processing.
- Design and conduct of statistical and machine learning models to analyse patterns, trends, and relationships in the data.
- Development and implementation of predictive models to forecast future outcomes and identify potential risks and opportunities.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to seek out opportunities to add value from data through Data Science.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives, and determination of reward outcomes.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are:
- L – Listen and be authentic
- E – Energise and inspire
- A – Align across the enterprise
- D – Develop others.
- For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
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All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
Location
The team and therefore this role are primarily located at our Northampton office, however, we may consider Radbroke and Glasgow.
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