Junior Data Scientist  –  Data & analytics  Early Career Program

Are you passionate about data and love solving complex analytical puzzles? Challenge yourself and us, and make an impact with the Advanced Analytics Early Career Program at Rabobank. Grow your skills, discover your potential, and help us uncover new possibilities for Rabobank.

The role

As a Junior Data Scientist Transaction Monitoring you can help protect society from Money Laundering & Terrorism Financing. Our team develops and maintains the analytics models that monitor the transactions of 8+ million Rabobank customers.  In order to be effective in fighting financial crime, we need talented individuals like you , who get their energy from looking into data, patterns and behavior of our customers. In our multi-disciplinary team filled with smart and driven colleagues from a variety of nationalities we have space for two additional young professionals.

• Position Eureka: You work very closely with our Transaction Monitoring stakeholders and make sure they have the data insights needed to make decisions. You do this by answering ad hoc questions, standardizing/automating recurrent analyses, and by working on products that our stakeholders can use independently. Such as dashboards and structured data products.
• Position Kardia: You will contribute to the Transaction Monitoring Data Model, a sophisticated PySpark-based code repository that runs daily to produce a Data Layer for downstream teams. Together with you squad members you dive into the codebase and translate business requirements into concrete improvements, applying strong software engineering principles throughout.

Please let us know if you have a clear preference for one of these positions. We are also happy to find out what is the best fit together with you in the interview process.

Practical Examples 

• Do you want to work with Anti Money Laundering experts and understand what they need to make their decisions? Do you want to work closely with data science colleagues and dive into our analytics environment (Databricks) to provide the solutions and insights they need? (Position Eureka) 
• Do you want to help us increase the potential of our TM system? Investigate how new data sources can be integrated into our data landscape or expand the framework and efficiency of the data model?
• Do you want to see your code in production? Learn how to write production-ready code (Python, PySpark) and optimize its performance. (Both positions)
• Do you want to learn and share knowledge? Participate in our knowledge sharing sessions, present your work to fellow data scientists, and pick the brain of your colleagues.  (Both positions)
• Do you want to be a part of our team? Join us while we work towards the same goals, learn from our mistakes, and celebrate our successes.  (Both positions)

You and your future

During our Early Career Program, you’ll develop your career over 18 months by becoming an expert in your field. Throughout the program, you’ll stay with one team and receive training to enhance your hard skills. You’ll be paired with a buddy who will guide you in navigating the bank. For your personal development, you and your fellow starters will follow the Early Career Program and receive guidance from a Data & Analytics Development Consultant. We’re here to prepare you for sustainable career!

Practical

• Length: 18 months, after which you will continue working within your team
• Hours per week: 40 About 10-15% of your weekly working time is spent on personal development, training and other activities. The other hours are spent working within your team; 
• Every Friday afternoon is Data & Analytics Early Career Program afternoon at the office!  

Your development as a Young Professional
Within this program, you will have the opportunity to get to know yourself, your trade, and Rabobank. You will start the program in a junior position within one team, participate in (online) workshops and training modules with other young professionals, and quickly gain practical experience.

Together with Data & Analytics community there is room for creativity and initiative to organize events, training sessions, and knowledge-sharing sessions. This way, we continuously improve the program and ourselves! You will easily build a large and valuable network within the bank.

Work on your own development & shape the world around you

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That's why we want to invest in you and work together towards a better world. We summarize this in one sentence: "At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time."

This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment, and a good work-life balance. You can work on banking matters for our private and business clients, but also on societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

You and your talent