Principal Data Scientist

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

Job Description :

Exploit data and generate timely, relevant, accurate and actionable information to:
 

• Support NAB to identify and understand current, emerging and as-yet-unknown threats to the business
• Pre-empt, reduce and prevent financial crime risk
• Contribute to the application and refinement of financial crime risk controls
• Support NAB and its customers to grow safely

Key responsibilities
 

• Lead the identification and understanding of risks, risk indicators, typologies and other trends that supports business risk decisions and helps meet NAB regulatory obligations in Australia and overseas, including by:
  • Conducting large data extraction and analysis exercises;
  • Creating and deploying advanced analytics capabilities; and
  • Visualisation techniques to support stakeholder outcomes.
• Build and maintain relationships across the NAB enterprise, with government agencies, financial institutions and other parties that support the development of timely, relevant and accurate intelligence.

What you will bring
 

• Demonstrated leadership in data science, including :
  • Leading practitioners and building their knowledge and expertise;
  • Developing and executing strategies in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Identifying and driving opportunities to enhance NAB’s intelligence and risk assessment capability.
• Strong analytics experience, including:
  • programming languages such as SQL, SAS, Python and PySpark
  • data mining and work with large structured and unstructured data sets to identify new and emerging patterns/trends
  • Experience with development of advanced analytic models in AWS
  • Hands-on-experience with deploying advanced analytics solutions based on machine learning and statistical predictive algorithms
  • Utilise data visualisation tools to deliver insights to stakeholders.
• Proven history in delivering strategic initiatives or transformation that positively change and drive business performance in a sustainable and safe manner.