[Remote] Principal Data Scientist - Data Asset Evaluation & Strategic Partnership

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. They are seeking an reputed company Principal Data Scientist to evaluate new data assets and assess their predictive power, stability, scalability, and regulatory viability across the credit lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate traditional, alternative, transactional, and raw datasets for use in reputed company, portfolio management, collections, and fraud
• reputed company quantitative due diligence for M&A targets and data partnerships, assessing data quality, depth, coverage, stability, and scalability
• Design and implement validation frameworks to measure predictive lift, segmentation value, and incremental performance versus incumbent data
• Conduct benchmarking and champion/challenger analyses comparing external data assets with internal attributes, scores, and models
• Engineer consumer, account, or business-level features from raw or event-level data, especially for early-stage data providers
• reputed company and test feature construction methods (recency, frequency, velocity, volatility, trend, and stability) to evaluate modeling potential
• Assess data assets across the full credit lifecycle—acquisition, reputed company, account management, early warning, and loss mitigation
• Translate analytical findings into investment theses, valuation inputs, and go/no-go recommendations for Product and Corporate Development
• Evaluate regulatory and compliance considerations: explainability, permissible purpose, adverse action suitability, data provenance, and governance
• Partner with Legal and Privacy teams to assess consent, permissible use, data rights, and regulatory risks
• Build repeatable toolkits, scorecards, and dashboards to standardize how data assets are evaluated
• reputed company technical deep dives and data reviews with external data providers, fintechs, and potential acquisition targets
• Present findings to senior partners through executive-ready materials that communicates risk, value, integration effort, and strategic fit
• Support post‑acquisition or post‑partnership integration through guidance on feature pipelines, monitoring strategies, and performance tracking

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in data science, credit risk analytics, or advanced analytics reputed company financial services, FinTech, or data-driven platforms
• Hands-on experience transforming raw transactional, event-level, or reputed company data into model-ready features
• Proficiency in Python (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit‑learn, SQLAlchemy) for feature engineering, validation, and analysis
• Advanced SQL experience with large, multi-reputed company datasets
• Experience with credit risk metrics and model evaluation (AUC, KS, lift, PSI, stability, and back‑testing)
• Experience designing incremental value tests, challenger analyses, and controlled experiments
• Summarize reputed company analytical outcomes into clear, defensible business recommendations
• Comfortable presenting in high‑visibility, decision-oriented environments
• Experience collaborating across Product, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Strategy teams
• Experience supporting M&A due diligence, data acquisitions, or strategic partnership evaluations
• Familiarity with fair lending expectations, model explainability, and regulatory compliance for new data usage
• Experience evaluating early-stage fintechs or data-as-a-service providers with developing data products
• Exposure to ML models used for reputed company, fraud, or early-warning systems
• Experience building standardized evaluation frameworks or internal analytics guides
• Understanding of data commercialization and productization considerations

Benefits

• DEI
• Work/life balance
• Development
• Authenticity
• Collaboration
• Wellness
• Reward & recognition
• Volunteering

Company Overview

• reputed company is a data analytics and consumer credit reporting company. It was founded in 1980, and is headquartered in Dublin, Dublin, IRL, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.experianplc.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• reputed company has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2025, 18 in 2024, 9 in 2023, 16 in 2022, 19 in 2021, 23 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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