Data Scientist

17 hours ago

Greater Brisbane Area, Australia Data#3 Full time $60,000 - $90,000 per year

Junior Data Scientist – Contract Opportunity

Location
: Brisbane, hybrid with at least 3 days in the office per week

Role Type
: 6-month contract with potential extensions

An exciting opportunity exists for
a Junior Data Scienti
st to join a growing internal AI/IT function and work closely with business stakeholders on real-world data, analytics and machine learning tasks. This role is ideal for someone with strong foundational skills who is looking to develop their capability in a commercial environment.

About the Role:

Reporting to internal AI/IT leadership, you will support end-to-end data tasks including data preparation, exploratory analysis, model development and the creation of clear, business-ready insights. You will work collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute to processes, documentation and handover activities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Acquire, clean and prepare datasets, including feature creation and handling data quality issues
  • Conduct Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to identify patterns, trends and anomalies
  • Support development and evaluation of basic machine learning models (regression, classification, simple time-series)
  • Produce performance metrics, comparisons and concise documentation
  • Create clear visualisations, summaries and reports for business decision-makers
  • Write clean, reproducible Python code following agreed standards and version control practices
  • Participate in team stand-ups, reviews and planning sessions, incorporating feedback
  • Document processes, data sources and handover materials for ongoing internal
    use

What You Will Deliver

  • Clean, organised analysis datasets and preparation scripts/notebooks
  • EDA outputs with key findings and commentary
  • Model training and evaluation artefacts
  • Simple dashboards, charts and reports for business users
  • Comprehensive documentation supporting knowledge transfer and reusability

About You:

Essential Skills & Expe
rience

  • Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or similar
  • Strong Python skills (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, matplotlib/plotly)
  • Proven experience preparing and transforming real-world datasets
  • Demonstrated EDA capability with clear communication of insights
  • Understanding of supervised ML approaches and evaluation techniques
  • Ability to produce well-structured, documented, version-controlled code
  • Ability to use AI tools to support analysis, coding and workflow efficiency
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Desirable Skills

  • Exposure to AWS or other cloud data platforms
  • Experience with BI/visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau)
  • Familiarity with MLOps concepts
  • Time-series or forecasting experience
  • Optimisation, simulation or operations research exposure
  • Experience in agribusiness, manufacturing, FMCG or supply-chain-heavy environments

Why Apply?

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your data science career, work on meaningful, operational datasets and contribute to impactful analytics and AI projects within a supportive team environment.

Equal Opportunity Statement:
Click Apply Now and submit your resume. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for a confidential discussion.

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