Forter Data Science Team Lead 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

492419775

What you’ll be doing:

• Be the professional leader and mentor to a team of talented data scientists and researchers.
• Devise creative solutions to highly intricate real-world problems, using statistics, domain expertise, ML, graph theory, or anything else.
• Work on the core of a multi-faceted system, at the junction of identity, similarity, and fraud detection, which is at the heart of Forter’s technology, and critical to its bottom line.
• Find techniques for automated learning from our data, which is meso-big and only sometimes tagged. In particular, hold our complex similarity search, clustering and anomaly detection fields.
• Work alongside domain experts to define and develop the way we should synthesize a large corpus of analytical knowledge insights into a scalable streamed flow.
• Develop measures, metrics, and uses for our large graph of humans and how to spot those fraudsters hiding in there.
• Promote solutions and sophisticated ideas, communicate them to peers, management and customers. Be the Data Science face of the identity network domain of the company.

What you’ll need:

• Proven record of at least 3 years of leading a team of experienced data scientists with clear KPIs and results that moved the needle. Strong academic background and hands-on industry experience. Working with analysts or domain experts - an advantage.
• Proven ability to work well sideways (with peers and vendors) and upward (with management).
• Proven team building and management abilities. Your people are very effective, happy, energized, and grow.
• Delivery oriented and capable: Algorithms, processes, specifications to R&D.
• Proactive. Tell us where we can use data more effectively, but we currently do not. Draw the boundaries of what is possible - you are the expert.
• Wide knowledge of statistical methods, Bayesian probability, and machine learning techniques.
• Background in: Python, SQL,
• Experience with Big Data, including parallel processing of NoSQL data stores - a plus.
• Professional proficiency in English.

• Proactive contribution to the data science community (Please add links to your Kaggle / Git account).
• Worked with not-so-big-data, skewed and noisy labeling, and a non-stationary world... but could still extract the best information possible.
• Interesting problems you’ve dealt with, that weren’t trivial.
• Side projects that you couldn’t resist building.

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• in NYC (2022)
• #3 on of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “ ” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)