Data Scientist

• Company BNP Paribas
• No. of Openings 10+
• Salary Not Disclosed
• Work Type hybrid

Job Description :

Position Purpose

The role will be part of the Data Analytics team in BIS - IT Security. This is a hands-on data analytics analyst role. You will work in the data analytics team with other team members to understand, develop and drive enhancement to the cybersecurity controls within the bank.

In this role you will work closely with multiple areas of the business (focusing on enhancing Cybersecurity controls) in reference to the Cyber Threat Model to proactively identify areas that data analytics can support and agree roadmaps for control improvements. This role will also require you to provide leadership in data analytics technical domain across the organisation with identifying control capability gaps and facilitating data innovation, using AI/ML and advanced and predictive analytics.

Successful candidate would be able to demonstrate significant understanding of IT and Cyber Security, capabilities to think out of the box, as well as having a sound and demonstrated experience in large organizations from the financial industry.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Part of a team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts to devise strategies and solutions to support data analytics and reporting capabilities across all business functions (Focusing on Cybersecurity are of controls)
• Focus on data democratization and building user self-help capabilities, enabling organization wide data driven decision making
• Apply expertise in mathematics, quantitative analysis, data mining and machine learning to develop models and algorithms that will drives performance of the analytics solutions
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, advise on analytical approaches, explore solutions to address business challenges
• Proactively discover and incorporate new insights from all data sources / raw datasets
• Continuously explore and implement new technologies, tools and techniques that will overall improve data processing, enhance the analytics solution or produce effective and engaging visualization
   

Contributing Responsibilities

• Participate and drive initiatives using Data Science to enhance, streamline and improve the cybersecurity controls
• Experience in implementing real-time/streaming data ingestion solutions, real-time data analytics solutions
• Experience in presenting analytics results effectively using data visualization & analytics tools such as Tableau and ThoughtSpot
• Working experience on Big Data development and related technologies (e.g. PowerBI, R, Python, Java, Spark, SQL & NoSQL databases)
• Knowledge in Digital Marketing platforms and Data Management Platform (DMP), experience in analytics solutions that leverages on digital data collected from websites, mobile apps, emails, cookies, device identifiers, 3rd party providers (Google Analytics, Facebook etc.)
• Comfortable working with very large volumes of data of various structured/unstructured data formats
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
   

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Exceptional communication and advocacy skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to express complex technical issues in an easily understood manner.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively and respectfully with both business-oriented executives and technology-oriented personnel in teams across the organization.
• Team player
• Investigation mindset and skill required.
• Ability to think like a threat actor to defend against cyber attacks
   

Specific Qualifications (if Required)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics or a related degree or equivalent experience
• At least 3-5 years of relevant working experience, with relevant IT or Cybersecurity certifications