Senior Data Scientist: Fraud & Risk Analytics (Hybrid)

Profectus; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Profectus is seeking experienced Data Scientists for future opportunities across the Australian Government. The role involves building statistical and machine learning models on large administrative, claims and service data, with a focus on fraud, non-compliance and risk detection, and turning results into actionable reports and tools for program and compliance teams.

Key responsibilities include developing models, anomaly detection, feature engineering, validating performance, and communicating

Qualifikationen

• Minimum five years in data science or advanced analytics roles.
• Experience with Python or R for modelling in large data sets.
• Strong SQL skills for working with relational data.
• Experience in supervised and unsupervised modelling, including anomaly detection.
• Ability to validate models and monitor performance.
• Experience presenting analysis to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with handling sensitive or personal information.
• Knowledge of cloud analytics platforms such as Azure ML, Databricks or SAS Viya.
• Experience with data linkage and de-identified data sets.

Aufgaben

• Develop statistical and machine learning models on large administrative data sets.
• Build anomaly detection, risk scoring and predictive models.
• Prepare, clean and engineer features from linked data sources.
• Validate, test and monitor model performance and bias.
• Present findings to program, policy and compliance teams in plain language.
• Build reusable analysis code and notebooks under version control.
• Work with data engineers on data pipelines and model deployment.
• Document methods, assumptions and model limitations.
• Apply privacy, ethics and data governance requirements to analysis work.

Kenntnisse

Python

SQL

R

Machine learning

Model validation

Data preparation

Data privacy

Data storytelling

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or higher in statistics, mathematics, data science or related field

Tools

Azure Machine Learning

Databricks

SAS Viya

Data linkage

Jobbeschreibung

Profectus is seeking experienced Data Scientists for future opportunities across the Australian Government. The role involves building statistical and machine learning models on large administrative, claims and service data, with a focus on fraud, non-compliance and risk detection, and turning results into actionable reports and tools for program and compliance teams.

Key responsibilities include developing models, anomaly detection, feature engineering, validating performance, and communicating