Associate Data Scientist

**48975, Associate Data Scientist**
- Permanent
- Barangaroo, NSW Be a part of Westpac’s supportive and inclusive team

**How will I help?**

Full-time permanent position as Associate Data Scientist in Insights & Analytics team within Chief Brand & Marketing Office of Westpac Group based in Sydney.

You are responsible for supporting data science projects and bespoke analytical solutions that help Westpac to optimise marketing performance, improve customer engagement, and maximise commercial value.

Key Responsibilities Include:

- With support and supervision from senior team members/leaders, maintain data science process/operation, including data, models and reporting pipelines with direct engagement with stake holders on regular basis
- Conduct analysis of various datasets to extract insights that can support informed decision-making
- Work with the wider team of data scientists and data engineers to support stake holders with analytical solutions to help them meet their goals and objectives Effectively manage risk by adhering to team risk controls and organisational risk mitigation policies

**What’s in it for me?**

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grown, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**
- Strong foundation in SQL is mandatory (Teradata experience is a plus, hands on experience with Westpac data is strong plus)
- Data visualisation and dashboarding is highly desired, particularly PowerBI/PowerApp
- Capability in general programming is mandatory (Python is highly preferred)
- Good communication skills (writing and verbal)
- Exposure to project management and associated tooling (Confluence and JIRA etc), experience with Git is strong plus
- Good foundation in Advanced Analytics, including but not limited to machine learning methods (supervised and unsupervised learning), regression modelling, time series analytics etc.
- Big data platform exposure (Hadoop/ Hive/ Spark etc) and Cloud platform experience is highly regarded (Azure experience is a strong plus)
- Customer Marketing & Analytics experience/exposure is highly desirable Stakeholder engagement experience is strong plus

**What is it like to work there?**

We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.

We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

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