afarax is looking for a freelance Data Scientist. We need you!

The project:

Our client in the banking sector, is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to strengthen their team.

Function description:

• Tackle various business challenges by creating responsible AI models to answer the needs of the Marketing and Communication to make campaigns more relevant and impactful.
• Capture the business needs, determine the feasibility, build the models and analyses to identify the most relevant target groups and set up tests to measure the impact of the models
• Build models to support customer journey driven marketing campaigns
• Build pipelines that clean and structure web analytics data and use LLMs to detect customer intent
• Apply the guidelines and best practices (e.g. explainability) for building the responsible AI models. Monitor and deploy AI models in production using a comprehensive stack of tools.
• Present technical concepts into clear, actionable insights to business owners and advise about the usage of the models in the campaigns.

Is this you?

Language requirements:

• English: Fluent spoken and written
• Dutch: Fluent spoken and written

OR

• French: Fluent spoken and written

You have at least 5 years of relevant experience

Technical experience : Mandatory

• Expert in Python programming and Python data science environment (scikit learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Expertise in customer journey modeling (e.g. next best action)
• Solid understanding of statistical methods, experiment design and machine learning algorithms (traditional and deep learning)
• Expertise in usage of LLMs for text classification, interpretability, guardrails and validation of LLM driven predictions
• git, bash
• SQL

Technical experience : Preferable

• Experience with incremental learning
• Experience with uplift modeling
• Experience with Marketing Mix Modeling, optimization under constraints
• SAS
• Streamlit

Soft skills:

• Taking ownership and ability to drive projects end-to-end with minimal guidance
• Ability to translate data insights into actionable business recommendations
• Quick learner and autonomous
• Clear and concise communication
• Team player
• Pro-active attitude and result driven
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset

How afarax supports you?

• You benefit from our extensive network
• You will have access to projects that fit your expertise
• We help and support you throughout your project
• We offer the possibility to build a valuable and lasting partnership

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