Senior Data Scientist: AI-Driven Audit & Risk Analytics

PNC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 91,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

PNC is seeking a Senior Data Scientist within its Internal Audit group, based in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, or Birmingham. You will design and deploy advanced analytics and AI-enabled solutions to enhance audit quality, risk identification, and strategic insights.

The role emphasizes production-grade data products, governance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable value. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data science, strong Python/SQL skills, NLP and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data science or analytics, especially in risk/audit domains.
• Experience with ML, NLP, and unstructured data.
• Proven ability to deploy production analytics and ML solutions.
• Strong communication to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with large-scale data environments and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, testing, deployment of advanced analytics and ML solutions.
• Partner with audit teams to translate challenges into analytical data products.
• Develop predictive/diagnostic models to improve audit planning and monitoring.
• Build scalable analytics frameworks and data products across the audit lifecycle.
• Ensure governance, validation, testing, and lifecycle management of analytics.

Skills

Python

SQL

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

PySpark

TensorFlow

Hadoop

GitHub

ML/Stat Modeling

NLP

Text Analytics

Documentation & Governance

Artifact/Package Mgmt

Power BI/Tableau

Generative AI/LLMs

AI Governance

Communication Skills

Mentoring

Education

Masters

Tools

GitHub

Artifactory

Conda

pip

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

PNC is seeking a Senior Data Scientist within its Internal Audit group, based in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, or Birmingham. You will design and deploy advanced analytics and AI-enabled solutions to enhance audit quality, risk identification, and strategic insights.

The role emphasizes production-grade data products, governance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable value. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data science, strong Python/SQL skills, NLP and