AWM, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, Data Scientist - Fraud Strategy, Analyst - Richardson, TX

About the division

Asset & Wealth Management (AWM) offers an unparalleled opportunity at one of the world's leading financial institutions. We are committed to helping a diverse global client base-including mutual funds, hedge funds, pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, third-party wealth firms, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals-achieve their financial goals through strategic investment and advisory services. With over $3 trillion in assets under supervision, AWM delivers innovative solutions across traditional public investing and alternative investments, with a focus on long-term performance and client success.

Marcus by Goldman Sachs

As the online consumer banking business of Goldman Sachs, Marcus operates as a digital bank, providing high-yield savings accounts and Certificates of Deposit (CDs) directly to individual consumers. Marcus combines Goldman Sachs' 150+ years of expertise with intuitive digital experiences, focusing on value, transparency, and simplicity for its millions of customers, and is recognized as the largest pure online bank, delivering a fully digital experience without physical branches.

As part of this team you will be responsible for:

• Analyzing large volumes of data leveraging advanced statistical techniques to uncover new fraud pattern, and perform deep qualitative and quantitative expert reviews
• Designing and developing data driven fraud strategies and capabilities to control fraud losses for consumer centric money movement products
• Leveraging supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to accurately identify high risk activities on the customer account.
• Building new data features and data products to improve statistical fraud models
• Identifying data signals to accurately distinguish between fraud and non-fraud activities
• Identifying and evaluate new data sources to build effective fraud controls
• Creating trend reports and analysis leveraging coding language and tools such as Python, PySpark, SQL, Snowflake, Databricks and Excel
• Synthesizing current portfolio risk or trend data to support recommendation for action
• Exploring and leveraging cloud based data science technologies to further enhance existing fraud controls
• Measuring and monitoring the impact of designed risk controls on customers, and develop strategies to ensure a positive customer experience
• Working closely with technology and capability partners to implement new data driven ideas and solutions

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience with very large dataset using Big Data tools and platform (e.g., Python, Pyspark, Snowflake, Databricks, SQL)
• Ability to efficiently derive key insights and signals from complex structured and unstructured data
• Strong working knowledge of statistical techniques including regression, clustering, neural network and ensemble techniques
• 2+ years of experience in fraud risk management, preferably in banking products such as savings, checking, certificate deposit, credit cards, etc.
• Creativity to go beyond tools and comfort working independently on solutions
• Demonstrated thought leadership, creative thinking and project management Skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Engineering or a related field
• Experience building quantitative data driven statistical strategies for a consumer checking and saving business
• Familiarity with large-scale graph processing e.g. graph clustering and link prediction mathematical algorithm
• Expertise in advanced machine learning techniques - ensemble techniques, reinforcement learning, deep neural network
• Knowledge of fraud risk vendors and technology in consumer finance or digital services industry
• Experience with consumer banking authentication tools and methodologies
• Experience in reporting and data visualization tools to report on trends and analysis

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