You are a connector between Business, IT and fellow Data Scientists. You translate complex business questions into valuable models, successfully used across Essent. Campaign personalization, customer contact optimalization, energy forecasting and NLP classification projects are some examples.

You’ll take responsibility as a Data Scientist for:

• Prepare and combine structured and unstructured data sources to easily generate features and insights
• Design, develop, and evaluate different model types to end up with valuable solutions
• 'Up to standards’ realization of Data Science models, in collaboration with IT Data Engineers and Architects, plus standardizing the way of working in this process
• Collaborate with our MLOps engineers, to make sure that models bring value to the business by operationalizing them into integrated data products on our Databricks platform
• Visualization and communication of data insights, for data-colleagues, business, and senior management
• Keep-up with latest data science trends and innovations and propose experiments to evaluate its use to Essent’s Data Product backlog
• Actively participate in the data science community by e.g. writing articles, hosting meetups, sharing your insights and experiences.

You will be working in a team of data specialists with focus area’s on Data Analytics, Data Science, Data Engineering, Database Marketing and Data Stewards.

Working together as one team to win our customers’ loyalty. It gives you an energy boost like no other. We can only grow by being enterprising, asking critical questions and always wanting to do better. This applies to you as a member of the Essent team and us as a company. Whether you prefer to work behind the scenes or in the spotlight. It doesn't matter. Will you make an impact for yourself, the team and our customers? Then you tick all the boxes if you also have:

• 2 - 5 years of relevant experience
• Master’s or bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Social Sciences or similar
• Knowledge of the Python data science stack (pandas, scikit-learn, tensorflow/pytorch, etc.), PEP8, Databricks, virtual environments, SQL, (py)Spark, AWS, Git, Docker, CI/CD, design patterns 
• Experienced in developing and deploying on cloud ML platforms. Databricks expertise is a plus.
• Basic working knowledge to converse on par with data, cloud, machine-learning and DevOps engineers 

You believe in yourself, the team and the company. And us? We reward you for all your hard work: with a good salary, opportunities and personal growth. Because you always deliver the best for our customers, we offer you (based on 40 hours a week):

• A job at a leading European energy company that's always on the move. We keep growing, developing and innovating.
• A gross monthly salary between € 4.349 and € 6.212, precisely tailored to your level.
• A bonus opportunity of 10% to show our appreciation even more.
• 30 days of annual leave 
• All the facilities you need to work flexibly in the office, at home and on the road.
• The opportunity to work with our House-in-Order Lean method.
• We recommend that you travel by public transport. And there’s a great extra if you do: we’ll give you an NS Business Card. Would you prefer to travel by car? Then you’ll receive a kilometre allowance. 
• A wide range of development and promotion opportunities, both nationally and internationally.