At AustralianSuper, we truly care about our colleagues.​ We know work and life are intertwined. That’s why we support the diverse needs of everyone and have policies that enable us all to thrive and be truly flexible. We ensure diversity is celebrated for the opportunity it provides us all to learn and grow and deliver better outcomes for members. 

This role sits within the Member Domain, which is accountable for ensuring that all members enjoy best-in-class member engagement and experience, access to leading products and services, and trustworthy guidance and advice when they need it. We design and deliver initiatives to accomplish these goals, while achieving member growth through strategy, marketing, brand, and proposition.

You will have the chance to drive real change and value from Data Science that will improve the retirement position of our more than 3 million members. 

The Opportunity

The position is part of a small team reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Science. This role will find you collaborating with stakeholders to discover, analyse, and scope new use cases, developing machine learning models, and introducing novel techniques to help our stakeholders achieve their goals. You will also collaborate with peers to continuously improve our machine learning pipelines and integrate our end-to-end solutions into the business through technical deployment.

The opportunity for you is to own value creation driven by data science, help lead the rollout of machine learning in Australia’s largest superannuation fund and deliver on the fund’s purpose to help our members achieve their best financial position in retirement.

If you are a highly experienced Data Scientist with a strong commercial focus who is passionate about showcasing the impact of Data Science, we want to hear from you.

This is a full-time position, but we support flexible working practice. Talk to us about flexible working arrangements.

The Role:

• Plan and execute Data Science projects with a focus on solutions that return tangible benefits to our Members

• Develop and deploy Machine Learning solutions using CI/CD principles for seamless delivery

• Ensure effective integration of Machine Learning solutions into the business to return real value

• Engage with non-technical audiences to influence the development of strategic programs using Data Science insights and recommendations

• Collaborate in the creation of scalable processes that enable rapid ML development and efficient model deployment

• Identify new Data Science opportunities through close collaboration with stakeholders

• Optimise acquisition and engagement programs to deliver scale benefit to members

• Enhance the delivery of service to Members, creating excellent outcomes while managing cost

What You’ll Need  

Essential:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience within similar or relevant role

• Proven experience in identifying, planning and delivering cross-functional analytics solutions to meet commercial objectives

• Deep understanding and experience in supervised and unsupervised machine learning, statistical concepts, and data science techniques

• Strong proficiency in Python or R

• Commercially focussed with strong commercial acumen and curiosity with an interest in value over complexity

• Recent experience of working with cloud-based platforms, particularly MS Azure Machine Learning.

• Advanced written and oral communication with a particular ability to present complex analytics solutions and outcomes to non-technical audiences and senior stakeholders

• Ability to collaborate with dispersed teams to achieve objectives

Desired:

• Post graduate qualification in Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science or Engineering
• Knowledge/application of Data Science techniques such as: experimental design (particularly regarding marketing); econometrics techniques; GenAI/LLMs; NLP.
• Experience in working in MLOps practice
• Experience with Superannuation or other financial services
• Experience in deploying models to production with Azure Machine Learning

Life at AustralianSuper

AustralianSuper is committed to colleague development, and we support our people with ongoing learning, coaching and training, as well as career opportunities across our expanding global organisation. We offer generous leave entitlements and promote a blended working environment in which all roles can flex, and we’re happy to discuss what this looks like for you.

We are committed to supporting our diverse workforce in a way that is inclusive and embraces diversity in all its forms. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let our recruitment team know.

What’s Next

Apply now, if you share our values of Energy, Integrity, Generosity of Spirit and Excellent Outcomes and would like the opportunity to work in a challenging, growing and rapidly evolving team to deliver outstanding results.

Australian or New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency status is required. 

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Agencies please note: this vacancy is being managed directly by AustralianSuper’s Talent Acquisition team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional support. Thank you.

As a profit-to-member superannuation fund, AustralianSuper is run only for members, and is here to help members achieve their best possible retirement outcome. We don't pay profits or dividends to shareholders, so the money we make goes back into the fund.

We’re an organisation of talented, inspiring colleagues and passionate leaders. As we continue to grow in size and complexity, we need people who will challenge our thinking, deliver outstanding outcomes and most importantly, share in our purpose.