Senior Data Scientist Full Time

NatWest Group

Join us as a Senior Data Scientist

• As part of the Scenario Modelling team in the Planning and Performance Centre of Excellence, you’ll drive and embed the design and implementation of data science tools and methods, which harness our data to drive market-leading solutions
• Day-to-day, you’ll act as a subject matter expert and articulate advanced data and analytics opportunities, bringing them to life through data visualisation
• If you’re ready for a new challenge, and are interested in identifying opportunities to support external customers by using your data science expertise, this could be the role for you

What you’ll do

We’re looking for someone to understand the requirements and needs of our business stakeholders. You’ll develop good relationships with them, form hypotheses, and identify suitable data and analytics solutions to meet their needs and to achieve our business strategy.

You’ll also be maintaining and developing external curiosity around new and emerging trends within data science, keeping up to date with emerging trends and tooling and sharing updates within and outside of the team.

In addition, you’ll be:

• Proactively bringing together financial, statistical, mathematical, machine-learning and software engineering skills to consider multiple solutions, techniques, and algorithms
• Implementing ethically sound models end-to-end and applying a software engineering and product development lens to complex business problems
• Using your data translation skills to work closely with business stakeholders to define business questions, problems or opportunities that can be supported through advanced analytics
• Selecting, building, training, and testing complex machine models, considering model valuation, model risk, governance, and ethics throughout to implement and scale models

The skills you’ll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need evidence of project implementation and work experience gained in a data-analysis-related field as part of a multi-disciplinary team. We’ll also expect you to hold an undergraduate or a master’s degree in a quantitative discipline, or evidence of equivalent practical experience.

You’ll also need experience with statistical software, database languages, big data technologies, cloud environments and machine learning on large data sets. And we’ll look to you to bring the ability to demonstrate leadership, self-direction and a willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Experience of deploying statistical machine learning models into a production environment
• Experience of articulating and translating business questions and using statistical techniques to arrive at an answer using available data
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and the ability to adapt communication style to a specific audience
• Extensive work experience, including expertise with statistical data analysis, such as linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, and sampling methods
• Previous experience in risk management, capital management, or portfolio optimisation along with a willingness to learn