Citi

Data Scientist – Merchant and Loyalty Rewards Protection, AVP

Citi

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: JacksonvilleFloridaMontanaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $87,280 - $130,920 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, develop, and optimize detection models addressing merchant impersonation, inauthentic entities, synthetic or coordinated activity, loyalty/rewards accrual and redemption anomalies, and promotion exploitation.
  • Develop and refined both micro-level and macro-level portfolio-wide anomaly detection, linkages, and behavioral anomalies.
  • Apply graph/network analytics to identify collusion or coordinated abuse patterns
  • Own and optimize fraud rules, risk scores, and model thresholds.
  • Monitor performance and iterate based on emerging patterns
  • Translate intelligence into scalable detection logic.
  • Provide quantitative recommendations to enhance controls and reduce exposure.
  • Partner with Fraud Strategy, Fraud Policy, Intelligence, and Product Teams.
  • Prioritize and provide a clear line of sight to the most critical work to partners and team members.
  • Mentor and coach junior team members.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree required in statistics, mathematics, physics, economics, or other analytical or quantitative discipline
  • 3+ years experience in analytics and modeling or relevant area
  • Extensive experience working with: Big Data environment with hands on coding experience within various traditional (SAS, SQL, etc.) and/or open source (i.e. Python, Impala, Hive, etc.) tools
  • Traditional and advanced machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting, Random Forests, etc.
  • Data visualization tools, such as Tableau
  • Excellent quantitative and analytic skills; ability to derive patterns, trends and insights, and perform risk/reward trade-off analysis
  • Ability to build effective presentations to communicate analytical findings to a wide array of audiences.
  • Effective cross-functional project, resource, and stakeholder engagement and management, with ability to effectively drive collaboration across teams.
  • Ability to make decisions independently with minimal guidance from management.
Benefits
  • medical, dental & vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • life, accident, and disability insurance
  • wellness programs
  • paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays
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Hard Skills & Tools
detection modelsanomaly detectiongraph analyticsfraud rulesrisk scoresmachine learningLogistic RegressionGradient BoostingRandom Forestsdata visualization
Soft Skills
quantitative skillsanalytical skillspresentation skillscross-functional collaborationstakeholder engagementindependent decision-makingmentoringcoaching