Impact Data Scientist — Financial Services Lab

McKinsey & Company; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

World-class benefits

Job summary

McKinsey & Company in Lisbon seeks a data analytics professional to apply advanced analytics techniques on large datasets and partner with client teams to deliver fast, data-driven insights. You will help develop reusable analytics products and advocate for data-driven decisions across diverse practices and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentoring, and applying geospatial, AI, and optimization methods to solve client challenges in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in quantitative fields such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or related discipline.
• 2+ years of professional experience in data science, data engineering, or closely related field.
• Experience with ETL pipelines, Airflow, and Databricks; data modelling techniques (3NF, data vault) with structured and unstructured data.
• Strong applied data science skills with supervised/unsupervised learning, time series forecasting, clustering, optimization, geospatial modeling, and generative AI; familiarity with ML libraries.

Responsibilities

• Apply advanced analytics techniques including predictive modelling, geospatial analysis, generative AI, optimization, and simulation to large-scale datasets.
• Partner with client teams across project settings to drive analyses and enable quick-turn analytics client development work.
• Develop reusable data-driven insights to craft solutions and products.
• Advocate for data and analytics, guiding dataset and analytic strategy choices to increase impact.
• Collaborate across practices, analytics groups, and technical teams to stay cutting-edge.
• Maintain and deliver a compelling portrayal of McKinsey’s data ecosystem to clients and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Data science

Data engineering

Python

JavaScript

Time series

Geospatial modeling

Optimization

ML libraries

Big data

Gen AI

Binary/Data modeling

Git

CI/CD

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

FastAPI

React

Education

Master’s degree in quantitative fields

Tools

Airflow

Databricks

3NF / Data Vault

scikit-learn

XGBoost

LightGBM

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

pandas

Job description

McKinsey & Company in Lisbon seeks a data analytics professional to apply advanced analytics techniques on large datasets and partner with client teams to deliver fast, data-driven insights. You will help develop reusable analytics products and advocate for data-driven decisions across diverse practices and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentoring, and applying geospatial, AI, and optimization methods to solve client challenges in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.