Head of Data Science
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PaddleFintech Payments
UK. Secondary Locations: Portugal, IrelandFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLMachine LearningA/B testing
Requirements
- Proven experience leading data science or ML teams that own systems in production.
- Demonstrated ability to move commercial metrics through production deployments.
- Strong hands-on technical skills in SQL and Python.
- Deep expertise in traditional ML and agentic systems, including feature pipelines and prompt engineering.
- Experience managing live system performance, including incident response, model drift, and retrain cycles.
- Familiarity with production infrastructure such as training pipelines, model registries, and feature stores.
- Strong measurement background including experimentation, uplift modeling, and back-testing.
- Experience in regulated transactional domains such as fintech, payments, or subscriptions.
- Strong ability to communicate value estimates and strategy to executive audiences.
- Proven experience in hiring, leveling, and developing senior technical talent.
Responsibilities
- Prioritize use cases across payment performance, revenue recovery, growth, and risk to build a value-based roadmap.
- Deliver the first systems end-to-end, including analysis, feature engineering, model training, deployment, and performance testing.
- Operate live systems by owning monitoring, retraining, incident response, and drift management.
- Build and lead a hub-and-spoke team of data scientists and machine learning engineers.
- Establish robust production standards including model registries, inference services, and observability for both traditional ML and agentic workflows.
- Manage governance and risk assessment for automated decisioning in alignment with GDPR, EU AI Act, and financial regulations.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Legal to ensure high-value delivery.
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