Senior Data Scientist (Fraud)

Empresa : Tipo de empleo : Jornada completa Spain

Descripción del trabajo - Senior Data Scientist (Fraud)

Moniepoint is a global fintech building modern financial services for millions of people and businesses across high-growth markets.

We provide payments, banking, credit, and financial management tools - reliable products that people and businesses use every day to run their lives, grow their companies, and move money safely.

We've grown rapidly in Nigeria and the UK, and we're now expanding our product, engineering, and analytics teams.

Our work ranges from building financial infrastructure to designing intuitive customer experiences for emerging markets - solving real, meaningful problems at scale.

If you want to build our data science function from the ground up, work with one of Africa's highest-scale fintech data sets, and ship products that influence tens of millions of users, this is an exceptional time to join.

on Senior Data Scientist (Fraud) to help detect, prevent, and reduce fraud across one of the largest financial transaction ecosystems in Africa.

Operating at the heart of real-time payments, identity, behavioural risk, and transaction monitoring, this role works at massive scale with direct, real-world impact.

Sitting at the intersection of data science, fraud strategy, and product, you'll translate complex behavioural signals into high?Develop and deploy fraud detection, transaction monitoring, and behavioural risk models across payments, accounts, onboarding, and merchant activity

Build features from high-volume transactional, device, network,



and behavioural data

Continuously monitor model performance, drift, and emerging fraud patterns

Ensure data quality, governance, and responsible use of models in regulated environments

Mentor analysts and product teams on experimentation, detection strategy, and data?A strong foundation instatistics with a degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar)

5+ years of experience in data science, decision science, or risk analytics within fraud, payments, or financial crime

Hands?on experience with fraud detection, transaction monitoring, or behavioural risk modelling

Proficiency in SQL and at least one modelling/programming language (Python or R)

Experience with machine learning, anomaly detection, network/graph features, and real?Ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders

Learning: We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.

Compensation: You'll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, monthly bonuses, plus other benefits

A coding exercise on HackerRank – covering core data science theory (math, statistics, linear algebra) and Python fundamentals (data structures & algorithms).

A technical interview with a Lead in our Data Science Team to review your take?Sobre la empresa

Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.

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📌 Senior Data Scientist - Full Time (Málaga)
🏢 Moniepoint
📍 Málaga