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: Head of Data Science
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities
As the Head of Data Science at M-KOPA you will be, managing a distributed Data Science team in a growing FinTech environment.
- Training team members throughout the organization to improve data fluency, and collaborating with the business to allow data-driven decision-making on critical business questions.
- Following a hiatus hiring for this role and some internal moves and restructuring we are now back recruiting for this role.
- This is a Senior role reporting directly to the CTO. You'll be leading a team of Data Scientists that focus on;
Building mission critical machine learning models for a global-scale financial technology company:
- Your experience should definitely include.
- Experience building data science models in a consumer lending company, with experience in some combination of credit scoring, repayment forecasting, and/or risk assessment.
- Experiencing line-managing data scientists
Requirements
- Building models to predict loan repayment or similar financial flows for an active financial portfolio
- Consumer Credit/Lending experience
- Experience and a high capacity for managing multiple problems and assignments at the same time and delivering high-quality outputs
- Proficiency in data mining and data modelling techniques.
- ML Ops experience in an Agile environment
- Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and their applications in data analysis.
- Experience of ML models in Production supporting finance/credit Preferred skills include R, Python, DAX, and PowerBI or similar data visualisation tools (eg. Tableau) Additional skills
- Team Management skills, managing a team of full stack Data Scientists that are integrated into consumer Product teams.
- A balance of strategic direction, model design, business impact & insights and reviews.
- Debt receivables
Application Closing Date
Not Specified
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Application Process
- Recruiter call 30 mins - an introduction to the process and M-KOPA
- Hiring Manager call 45 mins - High level introductions
- Technical Assignment
- Technical Deep Dive 90 mins - This is where the magic happens
- Final Interview - a chance for us all to reflect and make decisions and meet some wider stakeholders in the Business
https://www.hotnigerianjobs.com/hotjobs/608409/head-of-data-at-mkopa-nigeria.html