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BBVA

Associate Data Scientist Commercial Banking BBVA

BBVA
Spain · Full-time · Mid-Senior

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BBVA es una compañía global con más de 160 años de historia que opera en más de 25 países donde damos servicio a más de 80 millones de clientes. Somos más de 121.000 profesionales trabajando en equipos multidisciplinares con perfiles tan diversos como financieros, expertos legales, científicos de datos, desarrolladores, ingenieros y diseñadores.

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At BBVA we believe that Data is a main asset for achieving market differentiation. Commercial Banking Analytics is in charge of delivering value to the business units by participating in strategic projects that have a strong data component, or by creating actionable insights for optimizing the decision making processes at all levels of the Organization. Commercial Banking is a Global unit based in Madrid and interacts with other global departments and with local units all across BBVA’s footprint (Spain, Mexico, South America and Turkey).

Sobre el puesto

We are looking for a results-oriented, enthusiastic and self-motivated data scientist with proven experience in designing and implementing data-driven solutions for business units to achieve tangible impact. You will apply your technical knowledge and programming skills to help business units create, develop, and/or optimize data-driven products, and derive actionable insights from data. You will also use your communication skills to share the results of your analysis with all relevant parties.

Key responsibilities

  • Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders to gather and understand needs and requirements
  • Develop clean, simple and creative code to manipulate large datasets
  • Design and implement robust analytic solutions ranging from basic statistical analysis to advanced machine learning / artificial intelligence models to cover the identified needs
  • Represent / visualize results in the most appropriate format and present your findings effectively to analytical and non-analytical audiences.
  • Collaborate with IT teams to convert analytical proof of concepts into productive models

Required Skills And Experience

  • Solid foundations in areas like (the more the better)
    • Statistical analysis is a MUST
    • Machine learning for classification, regression and unsupervised tasks is a MUST (actual experience required). Reinforcement learning is a plus
    • Time series analysis is a plus
    • GenAI experience is a plus
    • Natural language processing is a plus
    • Graph analysis is a plus
    • Optimization is a plus
    • Signal and/or image processing is a plus

  • Programming experience:
    • Excellent programming skills and experience developing production-quality software.
    • Experience with SQL, Python, PySpark is a MUST (at least, two of them)
    • Real experience in designing and implementing analytical solutions with different programming libraries is a MUST
    • Knowledge of visualization tools and libraries is a plus
    • Experience with deep learning frameworks is a plus
  • Business sense to put data in perspective, and extract meaningful conclusions
  • Ability to translate academic results from scientific papers into actionable solutions
  • Experience and knowledge of the financial industry is a plus
  • Natural inclination for sharing findings and engaging in problem-solving with teammates, helping them with their challenges, and asking for their help when needed
  • Advanced level of English and Spanish
  • 3+ years of professional experience (data scientist, business intelligence, consulting…)
Preferred Qualifications

  • MSc/ PhD in a relevant field such as Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Math, or other related subject
  • Working knowledge of the financial industry products/services and operations is a plus
  • Proficiency in Spanish and English is a MUST

Habilidades:

Algoritmos de ML (Clasificación), Inteligencia artificial (IA), Pensamiento analítico, Python (lenguaje de programación)

Key Skills

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Posted
Jun 12, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Madrid
Company
BBVA

Industries

Banking

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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