Python Job: Data Scientist

Location:
Wien
Working hours:
Full-time
Occupational Area:
IT
Company:
Erste Digital

The future of banking is digital, and IT is the key to this change. Erste Digital is the digital enabler that drives innovative IT solutions for Erste Group, the leading banking group in CEE. Our service involves “run the bank” as well as “change the bank” activities. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts deliver best-in-class IT solutions and services to all Erste Group entities and by this directly to Erste Group’s more than 16 million customers. Are you ready to work for one of the most innovative and largest IT companies in the CEE region? Then hit the “apply now” button.

The divisions Data and Data2Business together provide data, reporting and analytics solutions to steer and grow Erste Group. The data science team provides our business partners with consulting services in data-driven projects where learning from data and getting added value from data-derived insights has a significant part. To reinforce this team, we are looking for a Professional Data Scientist.

As a Data Scientist, you closely collaborate with colleagues from business and IT to design data-driven solutions that will help improve our company. We will rely on you to build machine learning (ML) models or other solutions to identify patterns in our data and extract valuable business insights. In this role, you should be highly analytical with a knack for math and statistics. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data. We also want to see a passion for modeling and algorithms.

Your Tasks

• Create prototypes for data science and ML related tasks in data driven projects and accompany them from the pilot stage to production-ready ML services
• Apply ML algorithms and work on data pipelines using our Big Data cluster to develop end-to-end ML pipelines
• Discover insights from data of different business units in our enterprise
• Understand and derive the impact of simple and complex tasks on the business side and deliver them independently
• You show genuine curiosity and thinking about innovative problem solutions
• Work together with our business partners and data scientists following agile principles
• Deliver and support in all phases of the full Data Science process with respect to different levels of expectations and project requirements like business understanding, analytic approach, data requirements and collection, data understanding, modelling and algorithms, evaluation and interpretation, deployment and solution development support, and monitoring and tuning support

Your Background

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with a focus on quantitative disciplines
• Good understanding of statistical methods and common ML algorithms
• Expertise in a data analytics and visualization tool (e.g., Python, R, KNIME)
• Practical experience in applied ML (e.g., NLP, deep learning, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of Big Data ecosystem components (e.g. SQOOP, HIVE, IMPALA, KAFKA, SPARK, SPARK Streaming etc.)
• Basic knowledge of modern cloud technology (e.g. Azure)
• Experience with git and Jira
• Basic understanding of the banking business
• Business Fluent English. Working knowledge of German or another CEE language is an advantage

Our Offer

• We offer an autonomous and diversified position in an experienced team with international experience.
• We support your professional and personal development at all times. Our employees appreciate attractive career opportunities, flexible working hours, numerous social benefits and a professional working atmosphere.
• A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - the minimum wage for this position in accordance with the respective collective agreement is EUR 70 000,- gross per year
• We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer without regard to age, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation or national origin. We live diversity!
• Discover and enjoy the benefits of Erste Group