Senior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Azure, Databricks, DevOps, Git, PySpark, Python Programming, PyTorch

Job Description

As a Senior Data Scientist you analyse, enrich and build machine learning solutions on top of the richest data sources of the bank. Together, the people in our data science area create solutions that are of value to our customers and help to fight financial and economic crime.

You and your job

Your experience of building data science solutions and working with billions and billions of records of data will be your main guide during your day-to-day job while you provide valuable insights for more than 7 million customers. As a Senior Data Scientist you will work with a state-of-the-art data science toolkit and collaborate closely with a team of experienced data scientists and data engineers in an agile environment. You and your team are working on categorization of transactions. By doing so for all payments in the Rabobank app, you provide spending insights for millions of customers.

Facts & Figures

• You work with ~150 other data scientists, data engineers and ML Ops engineers from various backgrounds and 15+ nationalities
• Monthly learning sessions to share ideas and exchange knowledge with data scientists, engineers and product managers
• The department has end-to-end responsibility of 10+ ML solutions

Top 3 responsibilities

• Bring value to the business by designing, developing and deploying models in a responsible way to ensure a smooth validation process and tangible business impact;
• Make impact with new data science use cases by practicing your communication skills and effectively sharing your observations with stakeholders;
• Prove the added value of MLOps by identifying flaws at the earliest possible moment and implement the best MLOps practices accordingly. After all, you and your team are end-to-end responsible for the ML solutions you develop together!

Together we achieve more than alone

Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. The team brings diverse and talented people together to perform the best they can.

As a Data Scientist, I absolutely enjoy working on the challenging business problems that are presented to us. You go from diving into exploratory analyses to developing full products - together with hugely motivated and ambitious colleagues. There is a lot of room for your development, own initiatives and there are many opportunities to contribute to the area and make a difference for Rabobank! Wouter Smit, Data Scientist

You will be part of a very dynamic and international team including highly motivated team members.

Working together is the way we work as we are one results-driven, data-minded and analytical team at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,5000,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a better world together, a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

• Master or PhD degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Data science, Computer Science or related field
• 5 years of relevant working experience in data science, with a strong statistical component
• Experience with leading development of data science products
• Experience with production models and clear understanding of MLOps is a must
• Experience with Python, Git, PySpark and Databricks
• Experience with Azure DevOps and software engineering is a plus
• Wants to get better every day
• Hands-on mentality
• Strong communication skills
• Be the driver, take initiative and be proactive

This is what we offer you

• € 4.848,64 to € 6.600 gross per month based on 36-hour work week (scale 10) and depending on experience
• An extra budget of 11% of your gross salary to be used at your discretion. Buy extra holiday hours, add more to your pension savings or ask for part of the extra budget to be paid out
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• Hybrid working: we work 1 or 2 days a week from the office

This is a selection of the terms of employment based on a 36-hour working week. You can find all terms of employment on rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment.

You and the job application process

• Apply to this vacancy
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Lisa Boschma, recruiter via lisa.boschma@rabobank.nl #LI-LB
• We will conduct the interviews through a video call.
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