Data Scientist — Big Data & ML for Financial Apps (Limerick)

ACI Worldwide; Ireland; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ACI Worldwide in Limerick, Ireland, is seeking a Data Scientist to design and implement data-driven solutions for client services and product enhancements. You will work with product teams to frame questions, build scalable models, and automate data pipelines.

The role requires a strong foundation in statistics or related field, 2+ years of experience, and the ability to communicate insights to business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; PhD preferred in statistics, CS, physics or related field.
• 2+ years of industry or related field experience.
• Experience with RAG pipelines and Agentic Process in secure environments.
• Familiarity with agentic-based development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designs and programs methods to analyze big data and generate insights for services and products.
• Interacts with product and service teams to identify data questions and experiments.
• Develops algorithms and automated processes to cleanse and evaluate large datasets.
• Communicates insights from analyses to product, service and business managers.
• Develops predictive models using statistical and ML methods.
• Manages moderate-complexity projects across model development and delivery.
• Performs data definition, sampling, preprocessing, feature selection and validation.
• Ensures data quality for model development and visualizes data with tools.
• Collaborates with scientists and engineers on deployment of predictive models.
• Design and deploy statistical predictive models.
• Understand and comply with Risk Management requirements (risks, controls, testing).
• Adhere to corporate policies including Code of Conduct.
• Accountability, Drives Results, Customer Focus, Cultivate Innovation, Collaborates, Courage.

Skills

RAG pipelines

Agentic development

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

PhD preferred

Job description

ACI Worldwide in Limerick, Ireland, is seeking a Data Scientist to design and implement data-driven solutions for client services and product enhancements. You will work with product teams to frame questions, build scalable models, and automate data pipelines.

The role requires a strong foundation in statistics or related field, 2+ years of experience, and the ability to communicate insights to business stakeholders.