[Remote] Data Analyst - Fraud Intelligence
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. They are seeking a Data Analyst to join their Fraud Intelligence team, responsible for evaluating, testing, and onboarding new third-party data signals and vendor partnerships to enhance fraud detection capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute structured evaluation frameworks to assess the quality, coverage, and fraud-signal value of incoming data assets from vendor partners
- Build lift analyses, backtests, and champion/challenger comparisons to quantify the incremental value of new data signals against our existing fraud detection stack
- Profile vendor datasets for completeness, freshness, match rates, and population coverage across verticals (crypto, fintech, neobanks, e-commerce, etc.)
- Collaborate with fraud leadership to define evaluation criteria tied to real fraud outcomes — false positive rates, catch rates, precision/recall tradeoffs
- Translate vendor data findings into clear, actionable recommendations: adopt, pilot, deprioritize, or decline
- Partner with data engineering to define ingestion requirements and ensure test environments reflect production-like conditions
- Document evaluation results and maintain an internal knowledge base on vendor data performance over time
- Support ad hoc deep dives into fraud trends, model performance, and client-specific data questions as needed
Skills
- 3–5 years of experience in data analysis, data science, or a related analytical role — ideally in fraud, risk, fintech, or a data-heavy B2B SaaS environment
- Proficiency in SQL (required) and Python or R for data manipulation, statistical analysis, and visualization
- Solid understanding of evaluation metrics and statistical concepts: precision/recall, AUC/ROC, lift, population distributions, and A/B testing basics
- Experience working with external or third-party datasets — assessing data quality, match rates, and signal value
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear narratives for non-technical stakeholders
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to define your own structure in a fast-moving environment
- Familiarity with fraud signals and data types: device fingerprinting, identity graph data, consortium data, behavioral signals, email/phone intelligence
- Experience in a vendor evaluation, data partnerships, or procurement-adjacent analytical role
- Exposure to machine learning concepts and feature engineering, even if not in a full ML engineering capacity
- Experience working across fintech verticals such as crypto, BNPL, neobanks, or payments
Benefits
- Generous compensation in cash and equity
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - •US and Canada specific•
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - •US and Canada specific•
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual Learning stipend
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