Data Scientist, VP

Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X

In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.

So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

Job Description

Join us as a Data Scientist

• In this role, you’ll drive and embed the design and implementation of data science tools and methods, which harness our data to drive market-leading purpose customer solutions
• Day-to-day, you’ll act as a subject matter expert and articulate advanced data and analytics opportunities, bringing them to life through data visualisation
• If you’re ready for a new challenge, and are interested in identifying opportunities to support external customers by using your data science expertise, this could be the role for you
• We're offering this role at vice president level
  
  
  

What you’ll do

We’re looking for someone to understand the requirements and needs of our business stakeholders. You’ll develop good relationships with them, form hypotheses, and identify suitable data and analytics solutions to meet their needs and to achieve our business strategy.

You’ll be maintaining and developing external curiosity around new and emerging trends within data science, keeping up to date with emerging trends and tooling and sharing updates within and outside of the team.

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Proactively bringing together statistical, mathematical, machine-learning and software engineering skills to consider multiple solutions, techniques, and algorithms
• Implementing ethically sound models end-to-end and applying software engineering and a product development lens to complex business problems
• Working with and leading both direct reports and wider teams in an Agile way within multi-disciplinary data to achieve agreed project and Scrum outcomes
• Using your data translation skills to work closely with business stakeholders to define business questions, problems or opportunities that can be supported through advanced analytics
• Selecting, building, training, and testing complex machine models, considering model valuation, model risk, governance, and ethics throughout to implement and scale models
  
  
  

The skills you’ll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need twelve years of expereince in evidence of project implementation and work experience gained in a data-analysis-related field as part of a multi-disciplinary team. We’ll also expect you to hold an undergraduate or a master’s degree in a quantitative discipline, or evidence of equivalent practical experience.

You’ll also need experience with statistical software, database languages, big data technologies, cloud environments and machine learning on large data sets. And we’ll look to you to bring the ability to demonstrate leadership, self-direction and a willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.

Additionally, you’ll need:

• Extensive experience in data science, analytics, and machine learning
• Proficiency in python and relevant libraries i.e. Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, coupled with experience in data visualisation tools
• Strong understanding of statistical analysis, machine learning models and concepts, LLMs and data management principles
• Experience with AWS Sagemaker preferred
• Extensive work experience, including expertise with statistical data analysis, such as linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, and sampling methods