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Gazelle Global

Data Scientist

Gazelle Global
Netherlands · Contract · Mid-Senior

Data Scientist


As a preferred supplier to one of our biggest Financial Clients, I am seeking for an Data Scientist for a position in Utrecht, Netherlands. The successful candidate is a senior data scientist with software development experience. You will also have social impact by detecting criminal behaviour and simplifying business processes using graph analytics patterns by analysing the bank’s transactions of 8+ million customers. You will work in a team focused on enriching the enterprise knowledge graph (Neo4j) using entity matching. The team is responsible for entity matching across a range of use cases, developing and refining models to accurately identify and link related entities. You help the team in turning their innovative power and experiments into high quality production ready products, by bringing a lot of coding experience.


Practical examples

  • Build responsible and cost effective Graph solutions for millions of customers.
  • Analyse and optimize critical code to improve performance and scalability
  • Turn some explorational notebooks into a maintainable codebase


Top responsibilities

  • Create re-usable building blocks, which can be used all over the bank.
  • You bring experience on solving complex technical challenges and elevating the skills of those around them.
  • You take the lead in sharing best practices, mentoring teammates and fostering a culture of engineering excellence


Requirements:

  • You have a Bachelor or Master degree in Data Science, Applied Mathematics, IT or a related field
  • You have at least 8 or more years of experience working as a Data Scientist with strong focus on software engineering
  • You have strong object-oriented programming and software engineering skills, Python knowledge is a must
  • You are skilled in Git.
  • You have a passion for building and bringing to production clean, well-structured, maintainable and testable solutions.
  • You have experience in making components that can be re-used and standardized to support scale
  • You are curious by heart and experienced in collaboration with colleagues.
  • You communicate well in the English language (both spoken and written).
  • Basic understanding of statistical modelling and machine learning.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure
  • Experience in model deployment, performance tuning, and monitoring leveraging MLOps/DevOps is a plus.


Contract: 6+ months

Rates: Excellent

Location: Utrecht

Interview: 2 stages, 1 technical + 1 assessment


Nick Chinweerapunt

Account Manager

Gazelle Global Consulting

Tel +31 85 111 0171

Tel +44 203 588 7747

Mob +44 7377 403 773

[email protected]

Key Skills

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Posted
Jul 15, 2025
Type
Contract
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Utrecht

Industries

Financial Services Banking

Categories

Information Technology

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