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Senior Data Scientist

  • Location: Edinburgh
  • £ Salary: £50000.00 - £65000.00 per annum per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted over 1 year ago

  • Sector: Financial Services
  • Contact: Ryan Gillespie
  • Expiry Date: 27 October 2022
  • Job Ref: JN -072022-472541

Hydrogen Group are currently partnered with an industry leader to help with the appointment of a Senior Data Scientist on a full time, permanent basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward looking, vibrant Analytics department. As Senior Data Scientist you will be developing and implementing predictive models using traditional and cutting edge techniques that make better decisions for the business and customers.

In this job, you will be accountable for:

  • Working in Agile projects, lead the build of predictive models, applying data science techniques to model customer behaviours which drive profit and loss signature to help inform business decisions.
  • Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements of commercial and credit risk problems and translate into analytical solutions which ensure wider bank goals are achieved.
  • Translate the output of complex analytical solutions to stakeholders into transparent and actionable business insight to gain buy-in to implement.
  • Mentor junior Data Science colleagues and be an advocate for Data Science across the Customer Division.
  • Keep abreast of Data Science innovation ensuring the techniques used are the most appropriate for the situation and the tools are best suited for the job. Be a knowledge point for queries regarding predictive analytics.
  • Be innovative and think about solutions from a different perspective. Explore new sources of data, techniques and implementation routes.
  • Feed into the Analytics Learning environment with continual development of new techniques.
  • Collaborate with other Data Scientists to deliver the best solutions to tackle Use Cases that will bring a step change to the business. Ensure that their models are built and used within a robust model governance framework.
  • Provide support to the other areas of Analytics and the wider Customer division to enable them to meet objectives.

Skills and Experience Required:

  • Experience of using data science and predictive modelling to tackle business problems, preferably in banking, commercial or credit risk.
  • Background in maths/stats, computer science.
  • Grasp of profit / loss drivers in retail banking and an understanding of credit risk principles and application.
  • Working in a project environment with time bound deliverables

Should you wish to be considered for this opportunity, please apply online and ensure you have uploaded an updated copy of your CV with your application.

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