Designation: Assistant Manager – Data Science

Level: L3

Experience: 6 to 10 years

Location: Colombo

Job Description:

We are looking for experienced Data Scientist to join our team.

Responsibilities:

- Decision Science – Credit Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimization

- Build statistically robust application and behavior scorecards; develop PD, LGD, and EAD models

- Design loss‑forecasting frameworks (vintage, roll‑rate/Markov, survival/hazard, GLM/GBM) at segment and portfolio levels.

- Engineer features from bureau, internal behavioral, transaction, device, and alternative data with rigorous data QC.

- Calibrate and backtest models; perform stability monitoring (PSI/CSI), discrimination (KS/AUC), and calibration tests.

- Implement explainability (reason codes/SHAP), bias/fair‑lending checks, and challenger/benchmark models.

- Align models to accounting and capital frameworks (IFRS 9 or CECL; Basel PD/LGD/EAD concepts).

- Development of credit card portfolio optimization data models to drive spends and engagement

- Portfolio Spends Growth – Targeting basis segments/persona, merchants,



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Skills:

- Must have working knowledge of credit cards

- Must have hands on knowledge of building application score, behavior score, PD, LGD models

- Solid understanding of IFRS 9 or CECL (lifetime ECL, staging/pooling), and model risk governance

- Solid understanding of credit card lifecycle and credit card portfolio interventions

- Python, ML, SQL, SAS and Tableau

- Communication skills to explain complex methods to non‑technical audiences; clear documentation.

- Exposure to bureau data (e.g., attributes, reason codes), alternative data, and identity/behavioral signals.

- Exposure to transaction level credit card spends data

- Credit risk modelling (IFRS 9, Python, ML, SQL, SAS and Tableau,PD, LGD models)

- Communication skills to explain complex methods to non‑technical audiences; explicit documentation.

Job Snapshot

Updated Date

03-07-2026

Job ID

J_4924

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Experience

6 - 10 Years

Employee Type

Permanent

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