Senior - Data Scientist (Remote) at M-KOPA Nigeria

M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior - Data Scientist (Remote)

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time
Department: Technology

Job Summary

• We are seeking someone with a focus on developing machine learning infrastructure, advanced ML modelling, and monitoring tools. Ideally with a background in both software engineering and data science, enabling you to build scalable ML pipelines, create advanced monitoring systems, and develop robust machine learning models. It would be a real bonus if you had expertise in credit scoring/decisioning models .
• This is a fully remote role, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa. You will be reporting to the group Engineering Manager.

Requirements

• Python
• Proficient in popular machine learning frameworks for time series data, including: scikit-learn, LightGBM and XGBoost
• Experienced with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) frameworks.
• Skilled in monitoring models in production environments.
• Proficient in Python and experienced with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiar with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestrators (Airflow).
• Well-versed in MLOps best practices.
• Experience in developing credit scoring/decisioning models.
• Strong problem framing and problem-solving skills.

Application Closing Date
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