Data Scientist (FinCrime and Customer Identity)

Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.

We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff, and Manchester offices.

Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of your primary responsibilities. Innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do.

The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and take full ownership of everything around you: from building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and ensuring all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we can interact and collaborate in person.

Our Data Environment

Our Data teams are aligned to divisions covering the following Banking Services & Products, Customer Identity & Financial Crime, and Data & ML Engineering. Our Data teams are excited about delivering meaningful and impactful insights to both the business and, more importantly, our customers.

We are looking for talented data professionals at all levels to join the team. We value people being engaged and caring about customers, the code they write, and the contribution they make to Starling. People with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges can do great things here at Starling, to continue changing banking for good.

Responsibilities:

• You will be part of a team delivering data-driven solutions and insights to improve the speed, efficiency, and quality of decision-making.
• Work proactively with technical and non-technical teams to deliver insights to support the wider business.
• Build, test, and deploy machine learning models which will improve and/or automate decision making.
• Provide insightful analytics across the bank to assist with decision making.
• Engage with Engineering teams to ensure we capture data points that are relevant and useful for insights and modelling.

Minimum Requirements:

• Demonstrable industry experiencein Data Science/Machine Learning inone or moreof:
  • Financial Crime
  • Anti-money laundering
  • Transaction monitoring
  • Anomaly detection
• Excellent skills inPythonandSQL.
• Experience with libraries such asScikit-learn, Tensorflow, Pytorch.
• Strong data wrangling skills for merging, cleaning, and sampling data.
• Strong data visualisation and communication skills are essential.
• Understanding of the software development life cycle and experience using version control tools such as git.
• Demonstrable experience deploying machine learning solutions in a production environment.

Desirables:

• Experience withAWS/GCP.
• Desire to build explainable ML models (using techniques such asSHAP).

Interview process

Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

• Stage 1 - 30 mins with one of the team.
• Stage 2 - Take home challenge.
• Stage 3 - 90 mins technical interview with two team members.
• Stage 4 - 45 min final with an executive and a member of the people team.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you).
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday.
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off.
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year.
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme.
• Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection.
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr & Mrs Smith, and Peloton.
• Generous family-friendly policies.
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks.
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships, and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing.

About Us

You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.

Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace.

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