Head of Data Science

4 days ago


Melbourne, Australia NAB - National Australia Bank Full time

**Work type**: Permanent Full time
**Location**: NSW- Sydney CBD, QLD- Brisbane inner, VIC- Melbourne CBD

**Head of Data Science**
- **Be recognised as a leader, empowered to deliver and succeed**:

- **Use your expertise to drive positive outcomes for our customers and colleagues**:

- **Make your impact in a highly engaged team**

**About the team**:
The Chief Data Science group is a team of passionate, creative and diverse data scientists and engineers that shape the data and analytics landscape at the NAB.
- Research and development of new capabilities, enabling analytics practitioners to utilise first class techniques and practices, enabling organisational safety with a focus on ethical outcomes.
- Fostering an environment & culture that strives to be world class, that embraces challenges and is always looking to innovate.

**About the Role**:
This role will support the Chief Data Scientist in running the central data science group: supporting the development of the group strategy, managing data science careers and ensuring a high quality of delivery across the group.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Data science solutioning and roadmap delivery
- Group strategy and strategic direction
- Manging group risk across the data science landscape
- Senior stakeholder engagement, and supporting translation of complex ideas into business consumable outcomes
- Supporting and evolving group culture
- Group governance and quality control
- Individual career development and mentoring

**Skills and Experience Required**:

- Experiencing managing people and demonstrated ability to support data science career development.
- Demonstrated ability to define data science strategy and support the execution and development of a relevant roadmap.
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and defining data science solutions for complex business problems.
- Demonstrated ability to drive data science value, and not just model delivery
- Ability to prioritse and change direction as needed
- A bachelors or post graduate degree in a relevant field.

**Join NAB**

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. Let’s explore who you are and what drives you.



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