Associate Data Scientist

Job Description

Role – REQ

• Permanent / full time role
• Sydney CBD location
• Hybrid opportunity
  
  

How will I help?

You are responsible for supporting data science projects and bespoke analytical solutions that help Westpac to optimise marketing performance, improve customer engagement, and maximise commercial value.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• With support and supervision from senior team members/leaders, maintain data science process/operation, including data, models and reporting pipelines with direct engagement with stake holders on regular basis
• Conduct analysis of various datasets to extract insights that can support informed decision-making
• Work with the wider team of data scientists and data engineers to support stake holders with analytical solutions to help them meet their goals and objectives
• Effectively manage risk by adhering to team risk controls and organisational risk mitigation policies
  
  

What’s in it for me?

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

What do I need?

• Strong foundation in SQL is mandatory (Teradata experience is a plus, hands on experience with Westpac data is strong plus)
• Data visualisation and dashboarding is highly desired, particularly PowerBI
• Experience in developing apps with PowerApps, familiarity with integrating PowerApps into Power BI dashboards is highly desired
• Capability in general programming is mandatory (Python is highly preferred)
• Good communication skills (writing and verbal)
• Exposure to project management and associated tooling (Confluence and JIRA etc), experience with Git is strong plus
• Good foundation in Advanced Analytics, including but not limited to machine learning methods (supervised and unsupervised learning) , regression modelling, time series analytics etc.
• Big data platform exposure (Hadoop/ Hive/ Spark etc) and Cloud platform experience is highly regarded (Azure experience is a strong plus)
• Customer Marketing & Analytics experience/exposure is highly desirable
• Stakeholder engagement experience is strong plus
  
  

What’s it like to work there?

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.

Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us.

How do I apply?

Start here. Just click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button.

At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.

We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email [email protected] .

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?

We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please email [email protected]