Chapter Lead Data Scientist

ING Group; Marmara Bölgesi; On-site; TRY 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Turkey is seeking a Chapter Lead Data Science to manage a team focused on retail analytics. You will oversee talent development, contribute to hands-on projects, and drive analytics capabilities. The ideal candidate has a bachelor's degree in a technical field, management experience in an Agile setup, and strong analytic skills. This position offers generous vacation days, a health insurance package, and opportunities for personal growth and global projects.

Benefits

14 days of welcome leave

Comprehensive health insurance

Private pension plan

Career growth opportunities

Dynamic working environment

Qualifications

• Management experience in an Agile organization.
• Experience as a data scientist in the retail domain.
• Strong communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Develop a view on the future of DS capability craftsmanship.
• Manage and develop a diverse team of data scientists.
• Contribute hands-on to assigned data science projects.

Skills

Analytic skills

Team leadership

Python

Agile/Scrum experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical/business field

Job description

About ING Hubs

Following ING’s strategic ambition to deliver a superior experience to its customers worldwide, the hubs network contributes to fostering efficiency and digitalization across ING. Providing concentrated expertise along with scalable and sustainable solutions, the hubs focus on straight-through processing, delivering automated services like software development, data management and retail operations.

Present in Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Philippines and Turkey, ING Hubs employ more than 11,000 professionals in domains such as software development, data management, operations or non-financial risk.

ING Hubs Turkiye core capabilities, Retail Analytics and Tech, have us looking for data experts, developers and other professionals to get onboard in our Istanbul office located in Technopark, Vadistanbul.

Discover ING Hubs Türkiye

ING Hubs Turkiye is looking for talents to join an international network of professionals. Building on an existing framework and shared mission, our up-and-coming team will bring its unique personality and skills set to provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities.

We value strong work ethics, knowledge sharing and flexibility in our way of working – it is both our promise to you and what we look for in new colleagues. Let’s meet!

ING Analytics

ING Analytics is a new unit responsible for realizing this vision for ING, differentiating ING as a leader in data-driven organization, within the banking sector and beyond. The team consists of several Global Analytics Centre of Excellences around the bank’s key capabilities (such as Pricing, Risk Management, Financial Crime, Customer Intelligence and People Analytics) as well as strong coordination areas around data management, technology, customer journey, UX, as well as external partnerships.

Roles and responsibilities

As a Chapter Lead you have a dual role. You build a strong-identity team that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals, actively perform the people management of your chapter members and further develop and safeguard their knowledge and craftsmanship, in this instance for Advanced Analytics. On the other hand, you are spending the majority of your time working together with your team as a contributor on the delivery as well. As a Chapter Lead you have the complete overview and insight on the capabilities, expertise and experience of your chapter members and you will be responsible to decide on allocation of your chapter members capacity for the global backlog delivery demand coming from the Product Lead and Tribe Lead.

Role Profile

As Chapter Lead Data Science, you report to the Tribe Lead Retail Banking Analytics.

Your responsibilities include:

• Together with the Tribe Lead and Product Lead develop a view on the future of the DS capability craftsmanship and drive continues development of your chapter members
• Working closely together with the other Chapter Leads to discuss and align on required capabilities and capacity across chapters for delivery
• Together with the Tribe Lead, Product Lead and other People Leads, decide on the allocation of capacity of your chapter members for the delivery of the global priorities
• Steer and develop your chapter members to meet both their career goals and the organisation’s goals, driving engagement and results via inspiring leadership.
• Contribute to the success of the projects you are assigned to by doing hands-on data scientist work.
• Hands-on and multiple retail DS project management in lending, personalization and pricing domains
• Act as an expert on the craftmanship development needs for Data Science
• Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project / account team members and hold them accountable for achieving these
• Work with your colleagues on the (global) backlog deliveries
• Attract and retain the best talents, leading interviews when needed for your chapter

How to succeed

Education: Bachelor\'s degree in technical / business field (mathematics, engineering, computer science, econometrics or likewise)

Experience:

• Management experience in an Agile organization. Management experience in a matrix set up is a plus.
• Strong analytic skills.
• Experience as a data scientist in retail domain.
• Experience/ knowledge of the business of the Tribe you work in.

Competencies:

• A proven track record in analytics, backlog management and resource planning
• Ability to lead teams of experts working in a highly complex and dynamic environment promoting awareness in others
• Achieve optimum results by empowering teams
• Passionate about developing teams to achieve craftmanship and personal development.
• A mindset that focusses on continuous improvement.
• Excellent level of python and spark
• Excellent level of English
• Agile/Scrum experience

What do we offer

At ING Hubs Turkiye we want your work to fulfill you in every way, and that is why we take care of even the smallest detail. Check out what is waiting for you;

At our organization, you first be yourself, then you are ING’er, therefore;

• 14 days of welcome leave days even in your first year! Don’t postpone your dreams!
• We provide self-driven career opportunities where you have never
• Personal growth & challenging work with endless opportunities to realize your ambitions
• An informal, dynamic environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavors
• Take a part in global projects and/or career opportunities
• Have fun with various communication activities & celebrations
• We care your health; comprehensive health insurance package for you and your beloved ones (spouse/children)
• Private Pension plan for your future dreams