Senior Data Scientist – Applied Machine Learning

Lendi GroupSydneyOn-siteFull-time3 weeks ago

Lendi Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in Sydney to build production-ready machine learning solutions across propensity modelling, personalisation, growth, and retention. The role requires strong Python, statistics, and cloud ML deployment experience, working closely with data, product, and engineering teams.

What you'll do

Translate customer and business problems into clear analytical and machine-learning objectives.
Work with large datasets, event data and feature stores to identify useful signals and build predictive features.
Develop, evaluate and improve models for use cases such as propensity, personalisation, growth and retention.
Apply appropriate techniques across classification, regression, experimentation, forecasting and other applied data-science problems.
Take models through the full product lifecycle, including deployment, automation, monitoring, retraining and ongoing maintenance.
Help improve data quality, feature pipelines, model monitoring, drift detection and ML Ops practices.
Work with product managers and business stakeholders to define success measures and translate model outputs into action.
Explain technical approaches, assumptions and results clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Collaborate with data, software and AI engineering teams to review solutions, improve coding standards and share knowledge.
Contribute to technical documentation, design discussions and delivery planning.
Work with external partners or vendors where required to deliver the right solution.

What you need

Must-have

PythonMachine LearningStatisticsProbabilityModel EvaluationClassificationRegressionFeature Engineering

Nice-to-have

Generative AILarge Language ModelsAgentic AIRecommendation SystemsPersonalisationPropensity ModellingNatural Language ProcessingTime-Series Forecasting

Soft skills

CollaborationCommunicationStakeholder ManagementJudgementKnowledge SharingContinuous Improvement

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