Senior Data Scientist Ref:HQ1157
The Belgian KBC Group is the largest banking and insurance group in Bulgaria. The companies that are part of the KBC Group in Bulgaria are United Bulgarian Bank, DZI General Insurance, DZI Life Insurance, UBB Interlease, UBB Pension Insurance, UBB Asset Management, UBB Factoring, UBB Insurance Broker, KBC Branch Bulgaria.
The Applied Data and Analytical Modelling (ADAM) unit in UBB and DZI currently requires a Senior Data Scientist to help further the company’s goals in delivering a complete data driven experience to its customers. ADAM provides bespoke, project-based, data science services to all business units in the company. The successful candidate will join an exciting and growing area within the company and will collaborate internationally with other Data Scientists to the benefit of the local entity. The team is responsible for among other things:
• Development, Deployment and Maintenance of predictive and analytical models to solve business problems;
• Data mining of large datasets to develop insights and drive actions;
• Deliver high profile analytics projects following through the full end to end process;
• Driving overall performance by informing KPIs and ensuring strategies are backed by robust analytics;
• Data Innovation and thought leadership / evangelization of new technologies and techniques;
The UBB/DZI ADAM Team is one of six ADAM entities within KBC Group, totaling about 100 Data Scientists who collaborate and develop cutting edge AI solutions for deployment in Ireland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. The successful candidate will have opportunity to work very closely with these teams on these types of projects. At the same time, a key focus of the ADAM Team is outreach to universities in all countries where we operate. We have a growing portfolio of>15 patents or patents pending internationally, and recently started a spin-off company to commercialize our AI products.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• ML, Gen AI, NLP, LLM Model Development: Design and develop custom ML, Gen AI, NLP, LLM Models for batch and stream processing-based AI ML pipelines. Model components will include data ingestion, preprocessing, search and retrieval, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), NLP/LLM model development, fine-tuning and prompt engineering and ensure the solution meets all technical and business requirements
• Internal Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product teams, business stakeholders, Mlops, machine learning engineers, and software engineers to ensure smooth integration of machine learning models into production systems.
• Documentation: Write and Maintain comprehensive documentation of ML modeling processes and procedures for reference and knowledge sharing.
• Participates in monitoring and evaluation of performance of existing models;
• Collaborate with one of the largest Data Science teams in Europe in academic and commercial projects to maximize positive impact on UBB, DZI and their customers.
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE HAS:
• Bachelor's / Master's in Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics, Computational linguistics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional hands-on experience leveraging large sets of structured and unstructured data to develop data-driven tactical and strategic analytics and insights using ML, NLP etc.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with Python, Hugging Face, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, LLM architectures based on GPT, LLaMA, BERT, or Transformer etc.
• Demonstrated ability in AI/ML solution architecture design and experience with data and AI tools on popular cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Nice to have: Experience with contributing to Github and open source initiatives or in research projects and/or participation in Kaggle competitions.
• Related experience in retail, a financial or insurance institution is a distinct advantage;
• Very good command of English, both spoken and written.
WE OFFER:
• Excellent opportunities for professional and career development in one of the leading banks in Bulgaria
• Competitive remuneration
• Various opportunities for learning and further development of the professional skills and competences
• Preferences for the bank products and services
• Additional health insurance
• Life/Accident Insurance
• Food vouchers - 80 BGN
• Referral program
• Additional bonus for important life events
• Hybrid working model and flexible working time
• 25 days annual paid leave
• Sport card
If you wish to become part of our terrific team, please, send us your recent CV and a motivation letter. Only short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview and skills demonstration.
Confidentiality is guaranteed and the provided data is under special protection within the meaning of the Bulgarian Personal Data Protection Act.
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