About this role
About the CompanyFixa is building the HR and financial infrastructure for Africa’s informal and blue-collar workforce. Our platform supports businesses in construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and other labor-intensive sectors with powerful tools for workforce management, payroll, payments, and financial services.
About the RoleWe are looking for a Data Scientist who will be responsible for turning Fixa’s growing data assets into actionable insights, predictive models, and decision frameworks that power lending, risk management, growth, and operational efficiency.
Core ResponsibilitiesDesign the infrastructure to move, clean, and store data for analysis.
Build and maintain models for credit risk, fraud detection, user behavior, and portfolio performance
Data quality monitoring
Partner with Product, Finance, Engineering and Compliance to embed data into decision-making
Define and track core business, risk, and growth metrics
Design experiments and analyses to improve unit economics and customer outcomes
Ensure data quality, governance, and scalable analytics infrastructure
Mentor junior analysts and help establish data best practices
Qualifications5+ years of experience in data science, analytics and applied machine learning
Strong background in fintech, lending, payments, or financial risk modeling preferred
Experience working with large datasets and production-level data pipelines
Ability to communicate insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience supporting scale-phase decision-making in high-growth environments
Success IndicatorsReliable, explainable models that improve risk and profitability
Clear dashboards and metrics actively used by leadership
Faster, better-informed decisions across product and finance
Strong data culture embedded in the organization