Job Information
Date Opened
20/01/2026
Industry
Banking
Salary
€ 5.100,00 - € 7.150,00
Job Type
Temporary
Work Experience
6-8 years
City
Utrecht
Province
Utrecht
Country
Netherlands
Postal Code
3521 CB
Job Description
Do you want your data science work to matter beyond dashboards and experiments? As a Senior Data Scientist Transaction Monitoring at Rabobank, your models help detect financial crime and protect millions of customers. This is a role where analytics directly contributes to societal impact.
Your impact
Rabobank processes transactions for more than 8 million customers every day. You will design and improve analytics models that identify money laundering and terrorist financing. By reducing false positives and strengthening detection quality, you enable analysts to focus on real risks and meaningful investigations.
Your role
As a Senior Data Scientist, you take end-to-end ownership of (parts of) the Transaction Monitoring analytics landscape. You combine strong statistical and data science expertise with pragmatic execution and clear communication toward IT, architecture, business and senior stakeholders.
You work in multidisciplinary teams on both optimizing existing rule-based models and shaping the longer-term transition toward more advanced analytics and machine learning. The goal is not complexity, but effectiveness, robustness and explainability.
What you will do
- Design, build and maintain data science models from concept to production, including high-quality, production-ready code.
- Identify and integrate new data sources to improve transaction monitoring effectiveness.
- Anticipate future technical and analytical challenges and proactively propose solutions.
- Act as a content expert and sparring partner for senior stakeholders and management.
- Coach and mentor medior and junior data scientists and promote best practices across the team.
Why this role stands out
This is a production-driven data science role with real-world impact. You will have the responsibility and trust to shape critical analytics models that directly support Rabobank’s fight against financial crime, while helping to grow the people around you.
Requirements
What you bring
- An academic degree in Data Science, Econometrics, Mathematics or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in advanced analytics or data science in complex data environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python, PySpark and Spark. Experience with Azure Databricks is a plus.
- Proven experience in bringing analytics models into production and maintaining them at scale.
- Strong storytelling and communication skills toward both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated experience in coaching and mentoring other data scientists.
Benefits
Salary indication: € 5.100,00 - € 7.150,00.
Contract: A contract for at least one year.
Extra: A 13th month and pension contribution.