Job Description

SUMMARY:
An industry leading Bank has an exciting opportunity available for Senior Data Scientist to join their team.
POSITION INFO:
Purpose Statement

• To deliver the AI strategy to ensure the Bank can compete in a changing landscape where data science is a key future-oriented strategic differentiator.
• To design and implement predictive models or intelligent algorithms to better understand the drivers of business performance and enable improved management decision-making.

• Minimum Education: Honours Degree in Data Science
• Ideal/preferred Education: Masters Degree in Data Scienc

Minimum Experience

• Length of experience required is conditional on the qualifications obtained
• Master's degree or equivalent in a quantitative discipline or STEM field e.g. Mathematics, Statistics,

, Computer Science with focus on Machine Learning, plus 6yrs relevant experience or equivalent * Honours Degree or equivalent and relevant technical qualifications, plus 8yrs relevant experience.

• Experience in data science, machine learning and deployment of developed solutions
• Business analysis and requirements gathering
• Reproducible coding experience
• Working with relational and non-relational databases
• Experience in at least one ML language
• Working in cloud environments

Ideal Experience

• Working with multiple teams to deliver predictive models into a production environment
• Stakeholder management at Executive and senior management level

Minimum Knowledge

• Deep understanding of state of the art and emerging principles and techniques in at least one discipline of data science, e.g., NLP, Deep Learning etc. and can teach to a broad and wide technical audience.
• Underlying theory and application of machine learning models; able to understand underlying principles and theory and be able to teach others.
• Familiarity with modern deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet, etc). Best practices for data science. Ethical AI design principles

Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Attention to Detail
• Communications Skills
• Problem solving skills
• Decision making skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Planning, organising and coordination skill

Additional Information

• Clear criminal and credit record

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