Data Scientist 100% (f/m/d)

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

IHRE AUFGABEN

• Define and maintain the end-to-end technical vision, roadmap, and lifecycle strategy for the data science workbench offering of the global data platform

• Gathering requirements and maintaining relationships with current and potential consumer base. Ensuring the technical vision and roadmap enables their current and future business ambitions

• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance, and security, embedding non-functional requirements (NFRs), observability, automation, and resilience-by-design principles

• Lead the prioritisation and delivery of data science workbench related features and capabilities, collaborating with Platform Owner, Scrum Masters, Development Teams, System Architect, and Release Train Engineer to coordinate work across Agile teams

• Own and drive the community of practices for the data science workbench across the organisation

• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for incidents, problems, audits, and risk findings related to the data science workbench

• Establish and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs; leverage metrics and OKRs to measure platform health, usage, team performance, and business value delivered

• Drive standardisation, reuse, and simplification across the data science workbench ecosystem to reduce complexity, improve interoperability, and accelerate time-to-market

• Shape the target operating model for data science workbench operations-including governance, RACI definitions, incident triage, and handover processes-supporting stability, sustainable growth and efficient run-models

YOUR PROFILE

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in technology and/or data science roles within large, regulated enterprises—preferably in financial services

• Proven experience designing and operationalising artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platforms, MLOps pipelines, and model lifecycle management frameworks

• Hands-on expertise in core data science programming languages (e.g., Python, R, SQL) and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)

• Experience with Large Language Model (LLM) integration, generative AI frameworks, and prompt engineering within enterprise environments

• Strong background in statistical modelling, predictive analytics, and natural language processing (NLP)

• Demonstrated experience implementing responsible AI practices, including model validation, bias detection, and explainability in a regulated context

• Track record of enabling data science teams by building scalable, governed environments for model development, training, and deployment

• Experience with feature stores, vector databases, and AI orchestration tools to support advanced analytics use cases

• Ability to translate complex data science and AI requirements into robust, production-grade infrastructure specifications

• Proven experience leading and scaling a community of practise

• Track record with defining and delivering technical visions and roadmaps in enterprise environments

• Hands-on exposure to modern datalake and datalake-house technologies such as Apache Spark / Iceberg, Trino, Kafka, Kubernetes, Snowflake/Databricks, Hadoop ecosystems, or equivalent

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines

• Familiarity with risk and compliance frameworks applicable to Swiss financial institutions and experience addressing audit points or IT risk items

• Exceptional technical leadership and systems thinking, able to balance short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability

• Good communication skills on all levels. Ability to summarise complex issues for management and business, while also being able to discuss on a detail level with technical teams

• Expertise in software lifecycle governance, technical debt management, vulnerability remediation, and release approval processes

• Skilled in road-mapping, dependency management, and translating business capabilities into actionable technical initiatives

• People person or comfortable with significant business / consumer interaction

• Solid understanding of non-functional requirements—performance, availability, recoverability, monitoring, logging, and security-by-default

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to make data-informed decisions using KPIs, telemetry, and feedback loops

• Fluent in English, both written and verbal; German language skills are an advantage

• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, multinational environment with competing priorities

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