Python Job: Data Scientist

At Telstra, we believe the more connected people are, the more opportunities they have. That's why our purpose is central to everything we do- to build a connected future so everyone can thrive.

That’s a philosophy you’ll share with our customers. We’re focused on turning product and technological innovations into solutions that have an incredible impact on millions.

Our focus is to deliver great experiences, simplify and innovate, and drive profitability across our business. We’re combining innovation, automation, and technology to solve the world’s biggest technological challenges in areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and more.

This role is critical to providing insights that enable product and segment stakeholders to achieve their profit, revenue, sales, and NPS targets.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Data Scientist, you are proactive and curious about finding hidden patterns in data to deliver better customer and business outcomes. You collaborate with your colleagues to drive data-led decision-making across Telstra. By supporting the business to identify opportunities and risks you are central to our success.

Key accountabilities:

• Deliver key analytics, self-service, and agile projects. Work with stakeholders to define and agree on the project scope, milestones, and deliverables.
• Communicate the progress of projects and key findings within the organization.
• Ensures analytics delivers measurable business value.
• Use software such as SQL, SAS Enterprise Miner, and/or R/python to access, transform, integrate and analyze customer data from across the enterprise.
• Ability to adapt and perform advanced statistical techniques to answer complex business questions (machine learning algorithms, predictive models, clustering techniques, etc.)
• Design Test & Learn experiments for campaigns and guide the business in interpreting these results.
• Ensure deployed models are maintained, tracked, and governed.
• Translate data into insights in a digestible format for business stakeholders that clearly articulate the key correlations and relationships identified within the data and the business value associated with using these insights to drive business decisions. Uses storytelling to communicate with impact.
• Actively work to ensure resulting insights and dashboards are adopted in the business, leading to greater data-driven decision-making within Telstra.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders across Telstra to develop both the analytical hypotheses and the recommendations from the analysis and identify where support is required to influence adoption.
• Actively seek ways to work collaboratively across the Commercial Chapter Area to deliver solutions to our internal stakeholders that maximize the value of the Chapter.

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in the role, you'll bring skills and experience in

Essential:

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or some related business discipline.
• Graduate or up to 3 years of experience in a similar role
• Experience with SQL / R / Python would be advantageous

High desirable:

• Experience in commercial environments applying cutting-edge statistical models and analytics techniques, such as; data mining, regression modeling, forecasting, predictive analytics, behavioral modeling, the scientific method, experiment design, clustering, neural networks, pathway analyses, natural language processing (or text analytics), machine learning and data visualization

Network Data Science Role

• An education or background in Telecommunications Networks and/or Mobile Networks is preferred

IoT Data Science Role

• IoT Role: An education or background in Electrical Engineering is preferred
• Developing IoT EDGE computes algorithms and models which integrate with IoT EDGE devices:

General Data Science Skills:

• Working knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud technologies tools like Sagemaker, AzureML, Redshift, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Splunk, Databricks, Spark, etc

Why work with Telstra?

Here, you can expect to be working at the forefront of our telecommunications technology landscape, on projects key to our success, delivering innovative solutions on a scale you won’t find elsewhere.

If this opportunity sounds like a perfect fit for you, we'd encourage you to apply!

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