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

• Recent MSc graduate or PhD with less than 2 years of working experience
• Background in Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Econometrics or a related field. 
• Strong analytics skills and programming skills in Python
• Communicative, pro-active, structured, and can work well with different people and roles 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
• Motivation to catch criminals by making our TM system more effective; in other words, you are motivated to build models that realize measurable impact for the bank and society, not necessarily to build the most complex advanced analytics models
• Thrive in a high-impact, dynamic and high-paced environment

This is what we offer you

• 4007,83 gross per month (scale 7), holiday allowance and thirteenth month salary  
• An Employee Benefit Budget of 10% of your monthly salary to be used at your discretion. Buy extra holiday hours, add more to your pension savings or ask for part of the extra budget to be paid out.
• Personal budget of € 1.400 to spend on activities related to your personal development. A combination of working from home and with a beautiful view on the Dom from the Utrecht office. Mandatory office days are Monday and Thursday with the team and Friday with ECP.

You and the job application process

• Excited? Please apply before Wednesday 28th of January at 15:00.
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Natasja Helder-Severijns (Recruiter) via Natasja.helder-severijns@rabobank.nl
• Any questions about the job content? Contact Analytics Leads TM: Joppe Boekestijn (Kardia, joppe.boekestijn@rabobank.nl) or Nadia Vendrig (Eureka, nadia.vendrig@rabobank.nl)
• Your application will be reviewed by a human, we do not auto-reject based on AI. Please help us select your profile by providing a clear resume, a motivation letter and information on your grades in your application.
• 1st Interviews will be held via MS Teams.
• 2nd Interviews will be held at our offices in Utrecht.
• Assessments are part of the application process which will be done before the 1st interview.
• We look forward to meeting you in person during the selection days.
• A security check is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.

FAQ

• Applications via e-mail wil not be taken into consideration.
• Residing in the Netherlands is a must.
• For the second interview a physical interview will take place at our headquarter in Utrecht. Physical presence is mandatory.