
Data Scientist – Merchant and Loyalty Rewards Protection, AVP
Citi
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Jacksonville • Florida • Montana • United States
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Salary
💰 $87,280 - $130,920 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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