Senior Data Scientist

NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure

The NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure invites highly skilled individuals to join their analytics team as a Senior Data Scientist. This role is crucial for transforming significant volumes of data into actionable insights that directly affect policy and citizen services within New South Wales. Working in a motivated team, the candidate will contribute to impactful public sector initiatives.

In this role you can expect to have the responsibilities:

• Translate complex business challenges into analytical models and predictive tools.
• Develop statistical models and machine learning algorithms to drive governmental decisions.
• Utilize machine learning techniques to improve predictive abilities.
• Optimize data pipelines for business intelligence and visualization purposes.
• Analyze extensive datasets to derive trends and inform executive policies.
• Convert raw data into performance metrics and KPIs for senior stakeholders.
• Stay updated on emerging tech to enhance analytical solutions.
• Collaborate with development teams to build, test, and deploy solutions.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure quality and best practices.

This role comes with the following benefits:

• Access to superannuation and leave loading.
• Participation in a high-performing analytics team within the public sector.
• Opportunity to impact state-level decision-making through data.

This role requires you to have:

• Demonstrated experience in data science, analytics, or machine learning.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to stakeholders.
• Problem-solving skills for creating tailored models and methodologies.
• Experience in ML model building, validation, and deployment.
• Deep knowledge of analytics and statistical modeling practices.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in data storytelling and impactful presentation of insights.
• Capability to distill complex challenges into simple solutions.
• Open and solution-focused mindset.

You would benefit from having:

• Expertise in Python and SQL for data tasks.
• Knowledge of machine learning and predictive analytics.
• Experience with data pipeline optimization for analytics workflows.
• Understanding of feature engineering and model deployment.
• Experience with Power BI for visualization.
• Familiarity with SAP BW and SAP data structures.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric and cloud platforms.
• Experience with version control and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data governance and security.

The NSW Department of Customer Service is committed to diversity and inclusion, encouraging applicants from all backgrounds to bring their best to the role. Support for adjustments during the application process is available upon request.