VP / AVP, Senior Data Scientist, Institutional Banking Group Permanent

Business Function
The Institutional Banking Group’s (IBG) Data Centre of Excellence (Data CoE) is committed to building a data driven organization and maximising the key data capabilities to transform how IBG does business. Data impacts IBG’s businesses every day, and a culture of relentlessly using data and business intelligence will enable IBG to achieve exponential growth.

Responsibilities
The senior data scientist will have opportunities to work on varieties of problems across sales and marketing, customer management, revenue optimization, risk management, and many more other areas.
The senior data scientist will assist the leadership in both analysing and formulating the business problems as well as identifying and developing the analytics solution.

• Work with business and technology to develop end-to-end advanced analytics solutions – from problem formulation, data sourcing, solution development and productionalization
• Work with technology to improve the existing analytical solutions
• Work with analytics community to continue developing advanced analytics capabilities, driving adoption of best-in-class techniques and practices

Requirements

• PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operation Research, or equivalent quantitative fields preferred.
• Familiarity with a wide range of statistical analysis, machine learning, natural language processing and deep learning techniques.
• At least 5 years of experience in industry with demonstrated track record of leveraging advanced analytics to achieve business impact.
• Familiar with industry paradigms for model development, validation and testing and have developed and implemented industrial standard machine learning solutions from end to end.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Python (Scikit-learn, PySpark, TensorFlow, etc), Java Script, SQL, and Shell Script.
• Familiar with tools such as Jupyter, PyCharm and Git.
• Strong in problem-solving, being resourceful with end-to-end critical thinking to find out solutions even in unfamiliar scenarios.
• Good communication and project management skills.

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We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the professional advantages of a dynamic environment that supports your development and recognises your achievements.