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Senior Director, Data Scientist - Global Payment Network

Riverwoods, IL, US💼 Full-time💰 $269,600–$269,600🗓 2026-09-29

Core

Lead data science initiatives to build machine learning and AI agents for fraud/risk, merchant acceptance, and intelligence within the global payments ecosystem.

Role type

Senior Director, Data Scientist (Payments/Fintech)

Builds

Production ML models and AI tools for fraud detection, risk management, and merchant intelligence

Domain

Financial Services / Payments / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, relational databases, large-scale data analysis, Python, AWS, leadership, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

Payments/fintech domain expertise, people management, Scala/R, advanced ML techniques

Technologies

Python, AWS, H2O, Spark, Conda

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven products; build ML models through design, training, evaluation, and implementation; leverage open-source tools for large-scale numeric and textual data analysis; challenge conventional thinking to improve status quo.

Seniority

Director, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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