Data Scientist

Who We Are

Provenir is the unified Decision Intelligence Platform that gives enterprises full control over end- to-end customer decisioning — to manage risk, drive growth, and transform business outcomes. By consolidating data, AI models, intelligence, agents and governance into a single decisioning environment, Provenir empowers business teams to configure and evolve strategy directly, while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability and regulatory compliance. Trusted by 120+ institutions in 60+ countries, Provenir processes over 4 billion decisions annually — turning architectural coherence into sustained risk performance and measurable value. Ready to solve meaningful challenges, work with enterprise customers, and help shape the future of AI-powered decisioning? Join us.

About Global Applied Intelligence

Global Applied Intelligence (GAI) is the team that turns Provenir's platform capability into measurable client outcomes. We deploy data science, applied AI, and delivery expertise directly into client engagements, operating as trusted advisors and technical partners, not back-office implementers. GAI operates through regional business partnerships supported by global practices, meaning the right expertise reaches every engagement regardless of geography.

What You’ll Do

We’re seeking a hands-on Data Scientist to support Provenir’s growing business across Latin America. In this role, you’ll help clients and internal teams understand, build, and apply data science solutions through our AI Decisioning platform.

You’ll work across a range of analytical and decisioning use cases, helping turn data, models, rules, and insights into practical business outcomes. These may include areas such as customer decisioning, risk analytics, fraud prevention, collections, customer management, operational efficiency, and broader business automation.

You’ll join Provenir’s global Data Science team and work closely with colleagues across Sales, Pre-Sales, GAI, Product, and Technology. This role blends hands-on analytical delivery with stakeholder communication and exposure to client-facing work. It is well suited to someone who enjoys solving real-world problems and wants to grow their ability to explain data science solutions in a commercial environment.

Portuguese and English fluency are required for this role. Spanish is a plus.

This is a remote role, but our new colleague should be based in São Paulo, Brazil. Occasional travel may be required for regional team meetings and client engagements.

• Your Responsibilities
  • Support LATAM engagements across a range of data science, analytics, and decisioning use cases.
  • Work with internal teams and, where appropriate, clients to understand business problems, data availability, analytical requirements, and expected outcomes.
  • Build, evaluate, and explain analytical solutions, including predictive models, scorecards, decision rules, segmentation analysis, simulations, and business insights.
  • Use Python and common data science libraries to clean, explore, transform, and analyze data.
  • Help prepare analytical outputs, client-ready insights, model performance summaries, and business recommendations.
  • Contribute data science input to discovery, workshops, demonstrations, and delivery activities, with support from more experienced team members.
  • Help explain how machine learning, rules, explainability, monitoring, and decisioning can be applied within the Provenir platform.
  • Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Document analysis, assumptions, code, and recommendations in a clear and reproducible way.
  • Follow and contribute to team best practices for code quality, documentation, version control, testing, and reusable delivery assets.
  • Collaborate with global Data Science colleagues to share learnings, improve internal approaches, and support consistent delivery across regions.

Your Strengths and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field plus a minimum of 3 years of experience in data science, analytics, decision science, applied machine learning, or a related field; or a master’s degree or equivalent experience in a related STEM field.
• Strong Python skills, including experience with pandas, scikit-learn, notebooks, data wrangling, and model development workflows.
• Experience building, validating, or interpreting supervised machine learning models.
• Strong data manipulation skills, including merging, cleansing, sampling, profiling, and preparing data for analysis.
• Ability to balance model performance, explainability, complexity, and business usability.
• Good understanding of common model evaluation concepts such as AUC, precision, recall, lift, stability, and model monitoring.
• Ability to translate analytical outputs into clear insights and recommendations.
• Strong communication skills in Portuguese and English; Spanish language skills are a plus and would help strengthen regional coverage across LATAM.
• Comfortable communicating with internal stakeholders and open to working directly with clients as part of project delivery and discovery.
• Curious, proactive, and willing to learn new business domains, analytical methods, and platform capabilities.
• Organized and delivery-focused, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Although not essential, it would be great if you also have any of these strengths,

• Experience in financial services, fintech, banking, lending, payments, insurance, telecommunications, or another data-rich industry.
• Exposure to client-facing work, workshops, product demonstrations, or cross-functional business discussions.
• Experience with MLOps, model deployment, APIs, MLflow, CI/CD, or production model governance.
• Familiarity with credit risk, fraud, collections, or customer management use cases.
• Experience preparing presentations, technical documentation, or business summaries for data science initiatives.

Interview Process

The interview process would typically be structured as follows:

• Initial chat. This will be with a member of our recruitment team to get a better understanding of your current situation, what you are looking for, and any questions you may have.
• Technical Challenge. This is a take-home task where you will solve a typical Data Science problem in your own time. It will give you an insight into the exciting problems we solve.
• Technical Interview. This will be with your Data Science colleagues and primarily consist of technical questions.
• Business Interview. This will be with senior stakeholders from Professional Services teams, and cover mostly business and behavioural competencies.

What You’ll Love about Us

Our employees are empowered to be curious, forward-thinking leaders. We ask them to explore the uncharted and invent the unimagined. That’s what makes Provenir unique.

We offer comprehensive health and wellness plans. You will enjoy paid time off and company holidays, flexible and remote-friendly options, along with benefits to plan for your future.

Our employees are our top priority; we offer comprehensive health and wellness plans. You will enjoy paid time off and company holidays, flexible and remote-friendly opportunities, and maternity/paternity leave.

At Provenir, we recognize that diversity and inclusion make our teams stronger. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and welcome everyone regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, domestic partner status, citizenship, or veteran status or medical condition. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.