Machine Learning Manager (Borrowing)

  • Deepstreamtech
  • Cardiff, South Glamorgan
  • 19/05/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Requirements
  • You are result oriented and motivated by the impact on our customers and business
  • You thrive in a fast-paced environment and comfortable with frequent context switching
  • You enjoy both the strategic thinking and influence, as well as hands-on solving technical problems
  • You want to build trust and influence a diverse range of leaders and stakeholders
  • You like inspiring people around you, with innovative thinking and high standard execution
  • Excellent technical skills in Python, SQL, and statistics
  • Extensive knowledge of the credit industry, including the products, data, typical ML applications, and related regulations
  • Hands on experience across the lifecycle of credit risk models, including project scoping, data curation, model optimisation, performance analysis, deployment, monitoring, and diagnosis
  • Successful track record of managing complex projects, with cross functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • Experience of mentoring and coaching senior ICs
  • Previous experience of managing data and model governance in a regulated business
What the job involves
  • The mission of Borrowing Machine Learning Scientists is to improve the customer and business outcomes through better automated decisioning, using Machine Learning and statistical modelling
  • We have a primary focus in credit risk modelling, with our expertise also applied to predict and optimise utilisation, pricing, collection and marketing
  • You will be taking a hands on technical leadership role, managing a small team of Senior ML Scientists
  • With in-depth knowledge and experience in the credit industry, you'll drive innovations by identifying new opportunities of data and ML applications, and delivering business values across multiple Borrowing products
  • You'll have a close relationship with leaders across Credit Strategy, Products, Model Validation and Engineers, with whom you will drive and influence strategic decisions and product roadmaps
  • You'll also have the opportunities to work with external data suppliers and industry peers, to push the innovation frontiers for the credit industry
  • With excellent technical skills, you'll also spearhead the continuous development of our toolings, methodologies, and processes, to empower the team to / build better models easier and faster
  • You'll serve as the champion for the quality and efficiency of model development, and ensure safe and scalable growth of our model portfolio
  • You'll also have plenty opportunities to work with other modelling teams across Monzo, to collaborate on the best practices and latest technologies
  • We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies (although we do not expect applicants to have prior experience of all them):
  • Google Cloud Platform for all of our analytics usages
  • BigQuery SQL and dbt for our data modelling and warehousing
  • PyData stack for model development and offline deployment
  • Google AI platform for cloud computing
  • AWS for backend infrastructure
  • Python for ML model microservices
  • Go lang for most other microservices
  • AI toolings for productivity (an evolving list)
  • Google suites including access to Gemini
  • ChatGPT enterprise
  • Claude code