Associate Data Scientist - House, United States - Nationwide Building Society

Description

Are you someone who likes working with data, driving innovation, and using insight to identify things that don't look right and could be a risk? Do you want to work in an award winning, high-profile team, that gives you the opportunity to influence at the highest level? Our team works in a fast paced, customer focused, flexible and friendly environment.

We are on a journey to use Cloud based Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, and this is an unmatched opportunity to interact with and add value to the largest Building Society in the world.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible.

More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working.

We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, at our Swindon or London office.

If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to

hybrid working here .

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

Who we are looking for

Reporting to the Principal Data Scientist in the data science team in IA you'll be:

Part of a team helping to deliver the strategy for data science in Internal Audit (IA), by ensuring that you are utilising the appropriate technology, processes, and techniques to support its delivery.

Utilise data science techniques to identify, develop and apply deeper insight into the risk universe.

Be a beacon for innovation.

Using tools and techniques available to help develop a suite of data science solutions that will increase the usage of data and draw out insight.

Working with the audit team, key stakeholders, and data owners across the Society to ensure that an extensive range of data is available to IA and used effectively.

Influencing others and building professional business relationships at various levels across the Society.

Using your expertise to enable IA to enhance its usage of data from across the Society.

Play a part in monitoring data use in audit planning and reporting, preparation and execution, continuous monitoring mechanisms, ad-hoc queries, and training.

This includes helping to ensure that the demand for data insight support in IA is prioritised and resourced effectively.
What you'll be doing

Have experience or working with the data science Python development stack (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib) in either a commercial or academic environment.

Understand machine learning techniques, their training and development and how they should be applied to solve business problems.

Demonstrate a basic understanding of MLOps principles such as virtual environments, coding standards, CI/CD principles, version control systems, agile development.

Show the ability to think laterally to solve problems and evidence strong communication skills.

Experience of applying your data science skills through an understanding and interpretation of business data in a variety of areas.

Have experience and understanding of other analytical tools and relational query languages such as SAS, SQL, etc.

Knowledge of BI tools such as Power BI.

Possess a numeric qualification, either at A-level or Degree level.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together.

You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

Say it straight

• Thisisabout being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.

Push for better

• Thisisabout aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.

Get it done

• Thisisabout prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the endtoend outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you're sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually.

So, it's a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you'll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%

Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

Life assurance worth 8x your salary

A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

Gympass – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.

Access to an annual performance related bonus

Access to training to help you develop and progress your career

25 days holiday, pro rata

Why work for us? Nationwide is the world's largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population. We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.

As a building society, we're owned by our members – that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us.

It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself.

You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match.

You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK.

We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.

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