Senior Data Scientist, Sweden

Nordea is a leading Nordic universal bank.

Would you like to join crew of sharp analytical minds? We are now looking for a Data Scientist to join our global team of highly skilled data scientists. We share the common passion to work with massive amount of data and deliver complex analyses and solutions, contributing towards Nordea’s digital transformation journey. A great day for us - Applying analytics to solve day-to-day banking problems using the latest technologies, big data, math & statistics.
Your Future Responsibilities
Welcome to an organization located in the Nordics and Poland with a wide range of profiles, from data scientists, engineers and statisticians to economists, researchers and IT. We add value by attracting and retaining talented high performers by being front runners in our area of expertise. We take ownership for our own development and the development of our business, and we expand competences through learning loops in a creative and appreciative rapid prototyping culture. We believe in high performing teams where everyone plays a role in reaching out for our mission to deliver world class analytics.
What you’ll be doing
As a senior data scientist, you will resolve complex and data-intensive decisioning problems through application of data processing and modelling. You will drive intelligent automation by providing algorithmic and AI-powered solutions and administer improvement of methods and processes for lean and compliant automation.
* Engage with stakeholders and colleagues on using data to resolve a broad spectrum of business problems. Guide and drive decisions related to requirements, quality of data and methods for data manipulation
* Drive and supervise personalization projects for marketing  through management, optimization and contribution to the underlying phases. Challenge the algorithms and processes ensuring the highest utility outcome
* Steer AI/ML projects and initiatives according to Nordea’s data management principles, regulations and AI lifecycle milestones. Contribute to Nordea’s mandatory governance processes to enable data science capabilities
* Drive full cycle of data science projects by ensuring coherence and optimal transition between various steps, components and capabilities/teams
* A thought leader, who can propose and execute new ideas leveraging data and data science techniques with measurable outcome
* You’ll join centre of excellence in Advanced Analytics team (unit of Group Data Management Office), driving Nordea’s goal towards omni-channel experience for Personal Banking customers

The role is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Who you are
Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you
* You have an excellent analytical skill and good in influencing others with your presentation and communication skill
* You are driven by achieving concrete results and see your work leading to direct business value
* You follow structured, creative & forward looking approach
* You are self-driven, proactive and ready to take decisions in complex scenarios
* You take responsibility for own learning and keeping yourself updated within own domain of expertise to secure constant development and personal growth
* Seek inspiration for exploring new areas from colleagues and stakeholders

Your experience and background
* You have driven & managed data science projects from A-Z ensuring coherence and optimal transition between various steps, components and capabilities. And led knowledge sharing and training among stakeholders and colleagues
* You’re a coding wizard in one or more data science programming language i.e Python, Pyspark, R, SQL etc
* You have academic credentials focused on related data science field: mathematics, economics, statistics, engineering and information management etc. and you have strong understanding of statistical concepts (e.g. Hypothesis Testing) and machine learning models i.e reinforced learning, NLP, Random forest etc
* You are proficient in written and spoken English

Even better if
* You have delivered or worked in the area of automated decisioning, recommendation engine etc
* You have knowledge of basic digital marketing principles and familiarity with Nordic banking market in general
* You have prior experience working in productionalized set up in-premise or cloud environment
* You know your ways around tools like IBM Watson (Watson Studio), BitBucket, Hive, Unix Systems, visualization tool such as power BI, QlikSense
* You have worked in SAFe agile environment

If this sounds like you, get in touch!
Next steps
Submit your application no later than 03/06/2022. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Alok Kumar, +45 23998600, alok.kumar@nordea.com.
Only for candidates in Sweden - for union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com.