Data Scientist, Specialist
About The Position
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission. To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best. Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Requirements
- Minimum of five years related work experience in analytical roles.
- Experience with data wrangling required - Programming skills to access, transform and prepare large scale data for statistical modeling.
- Experience utilizing statistical and machine learning methods required.
- Undergraduate degree in Analytics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Statistics or related analytical field of study or equivalent combination of training and experience.
Nice To Haves
- Graduate degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Develop end-to-end Generative AI solutions leveraging LLMs and foundational AI components
- Design and implement scalable RAG workflows
- Develops complex queries and performs extensive programming to access, transform, and prepare data for statistical modeling.
- Leads and executes deep dive diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to support data-driven business decision making.
- Mentors and develops junior data scientists and analysts.
- Identifies and diagnoses data inconsistencies and errors, documents data assumptions, and forages to fill data gaps.
- Engages with internal stakeholders to understand and probe business processes in order to develop hypotheses.
- Brings structure to requests and translates requirements into an analytic approach.
- Guides test design, research design, and model validation.
- Provides statistical consultation services.
- Serves as the analytics expert on cross functional teams for large strategic initiatives and contributes to the growth of the Vanguard analytic community.
- Prepares and delivers insight presentations and action recommendations.
- Communicates complex analytical findings and implications to business leaders.
- Designs scalable data mining models and reporting protocols to identify trends and patterns in massive datasets.
- Applies modern and emerging data science techniques to solve business problems across functions such as marketing, economics, and operations.
- Contributes to the advancement of analytics through exploratory research and application of cutting-edge statistical theory.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
