Senior Data Scientist, Zopa
1-5 days a week in office
Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
Job no longer available
Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
1-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create simple, fair and honest financial products that have the customer's needs at heart.
Role
Who you are
- As a Senior Data Scientist, you do not need to have experience across the full lifecycle from discovery through to deployment, production and monitoring
- You love data. You are passionate about tackling real world problems with data. You have proven track record of solving complex data problem and deliver business value
- You are a scientist. Always curious and eager to learn. You have an inquisitive mind to delve under the surface and challenge status quo. You are fearless in innovation, for the good of our customers and the world
- You are a great communicator. You enjoy influencing decision makers with insights from data. You can foster mutual understanding and trust with stakeholders of different perspectives
- You are a team player, striving for the success of the team and collaborate with an open mind. You have the can-do attitude with strong commitment to get the job done
- You are proficient in SQL and have excellent Python skills, with a good understanding of the best practices in Software Engineering
- You have in-depth knowledge of machine learning algorithms (e.g. logistic regression, random forest, gradient boosted trees, neural networks, k-means, etc) and statistics (e.g., Monte Carlo, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, maximum likelihood, bootstrap, Bayesian inference)
- You have working knowledge of Git, Docker, CI/CD, REST API
Desirable
- Experience with Causal Inference modelling
- Domain knowledge of the financial services industry, especially consumer lending or credit risk
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Scientist at Zopa, you will be leading high impact projects related to data and modelling, across a broad range of topics such as credit risk, fraud detection, pricing, and customer engagement
- You will own the full lifecycle of your project, including the discovery of business opportunities through statistical analysis, data curation and processing, feature engineering, development of machine learning model, deployment to production, and model monitoring
- You will engage with senior stakeholders across the company, influence critical business decisions, and make direct impacts on our products and millions of customers
- On daily basis, you will work closely with product managers, analysts, data engineers and software engineers to make progress of your project
- You will also support other data scientists by knowledge sharing, code review, collaboration on common utilities and analytical infrastructure
- Lead high impact projects related to data and modelling
- Own the full lifecycle of your project, including the discovery of business opportunities through statistical analysis, data curation and processing, feature engineering, development of machine learning model, deployment to production and model monitoring
- Engage with senior stakeholders across the company, influence critical business decisions, and make direct impacts on our products and millions of customers
- Work closely with product managers, analysts, data engineers and software engineers to make progress of your project
- Support other data scientists by knowledge sharing, code review, collaboration on common utilities and analytical infrastructure
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Zopa has been a pioneering force in the world of finance since 2005, lending out billions in personal loans since its inception, before the launch of its bank in 2020. Its depth of lending experience makes it a digital bank with a difference - offering all the benefits customers have come to expect from a challenger bank, but backed up by 16 years of know how.
As a bank, Zopa has the flexibility to offer much more than loans to their customers, such as their fixed term savings accounts and credit card. Their model is clearly defined, with a focus on lending and saving rather than current accounts - and its investment in its banking license has clearly paid off. The company has recently seen significant investment that will accelerate the growth of its current products as well as support expansion into the business lending space. It has also made its first ever acquisition, of the ‘buy now, pay later’ platform DivideBuy.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Employee endorsements
Intelligent people
"My colleagues here at Zopa have a wealth of knowledge which they share constantly and are always willing to assist or give a second opinion on..."
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Dec 2024
$89m
LATE VC
Feb 2023
$97.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $940.7m
Company benefits
- Discounted gym membership
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Hybrid & flexible working model
- Health insurance with Vitality
- Generous holiday plus Zopa bank holidays
- 2 volunteer days a year
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Assurance
- Private healthcare from Vitality
- Great deals on Zopa products
- Season ticket loans
- Discretionary unpaid leave
- Games room, meditation room, subsidised yoga classes, football league and more
Company values
- Champion our customers - Whatever your role, you’ll be close to our customers. We care passionately about doing the best for them.
- Help us make fearless choices - Our environment is fast-paced, agile and open. You’ll solve interesting and challenging problems, and be trusted and empowered to bring your ideas to life.
- Walk the talk - Like us, you’ll be honest, stick to your promises and face the tough moments head-on.
- Win smarter - You’ll be always on the lookout for a better way of doing things, going beyond ‘good enough’ and welcoming different points of view.
- Be in it together - You’ll join an ambitious, diverse and all-round approachable team with a mix of ideas and talents who inspire each other to be better every day.
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Giles Andrews OBE
(Board Member)Independent Non Executive Director at C. Hoare & Co., and at the Bank of Ireland. Chairman of carwow. Board Member at the Innovate Finance FinTech Strategy Group. Previously founded Caverdale Group.
Jaidev
(CEO, not founder)Promoted from within Zopa, previously COO. 12 years of experience at Capital One, including Chief Marketing Officer for UK.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zopa
Jamie Ferguson (Talent Acquisition Advisor)
- We're always looking for passionate and talented people who can help us be the best place for money. We welcome everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race or religion.
- We run a successful mentoring program, with 28 mentors across the business. We believe this launching pad helps our internal talent stretch beyond their comfort zone, explore new avenues and grow into future leaders.
- We’re focused on ensuring a fair approach to attracting talent, from how we advertise roles to our application and interview process. For all our hiring requirements we mandate 50/50 shortlists and diverse interview panels. We also run all our adverts through a recognised gender de-coder to ensure we attract and hire a diverse range of people. More recently we’ve been experimenting with new job boards and partnerships like Otta Jobs and BYP Network (Black Youth Partnership Network) to increase diversity in our candidate sourcing.
- We’ve secured trail-blazing partnerships with organisations like Code First Girls, YSYS and BYP Network. We’ve already had huge success with our Code First Girls cohort who joined our tech community as Software Engineers and Database Administrators in January.
- We encourage Zopians to create memorable career journeys, and internal mobility plays a huge part in this. All our live job vacancies are posted on our internal jobs board. Over the last 12 months, we’ve trained and supported many Zopians to make internal career moves and become compliance officers, developers, lawyers and HR specialists. In fact, 20% of our open roles in Q3 2021 were filled by internal candidates. This not only makes Zopa a great place to work, but also allows us to break down some of the systemic pipeline issues that we see in STEM professions.
- Our Diversity & Inclusion focus groups and “All in” club celebrate diversity through various company events, such as quiz nights and “Bring your kids to work” day – our favourite is international food night!
- Everyone at Zopa has different working styles, and we want to support them in any way possible. That’s why we’re committed to flexible working whether that’s from home, in the office or a combination of both. What’s more, our model includes the option of working from abroad for up to 90 days a year!
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