Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist, Contract, Sydney (2 positions)
About the opportunity

A NSW Government agency is expanding its Chief Data Office, adding two Senior Data Scientist contractors to a program of advanced analytics and modern AI work supporting nationally significant public safety initiatives. This is a rare government brief that genuinely wants both classical statistical rigour and hands-on modern AI capability, not a platform-engineering role dressed up as data science.

The role

• Lead the design and delivery of advanced statistics and machine learning solutions, including regression, classification, time series analysis, Bayesian methods and causal inference
• Design and deliver scientifically defensible AI and modern deep learning solutions, with humans in the loop and strict governance requirements
• Own the full lifecycle of data science problems, from problem definition throu...