Data Scientist

Join Us as a Data Scientist / Software Engineer!

As a Data Scientist / Software Engineer, you have the opportunity to make a social impact by detecting criminal behavior and simplifying business processes through graph analytics. You'll be analyzing transactions from over 8 million Rabobank customers!

You’ll be part of a team dedicated to enriching the enterprise knowledge graph (Neo4j) using entity matching. This team is responsible for entity matching across a variety of use cases, developing and refining models to accurately identify and link related entities.

Your role will help the team transform their innovative ideas and experiments into high-quality, production-ready products, leveraging your extensive coding experience.

Practical Examples

• Build responsible and cost-effective Graph solutions for millions of customers.
• Analyze and optimize critical code to improve performance and scalability.
• Convert exploratory notebooks into a maintainable codebase.

Top Responsibilities

• Create reusable building blocks that can be utilized throughout the bank.
• Bring your experience in solving complex technical challenges while elevating the skills of your colleagues.
• Lead the way in sharing best practices, mentoring teammates, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.

Goed om te weten: het betreft een gecombineerde functie. De kandidaat zal zowel data scientist als software engineering werkzaamheden uitvoeren.

Gewenste startdatum: zo snel mogelijk

Einddatum: 18 december 2026

Voertaal: Engels

Kennis van de Nederlandse taal is niet vereist.

Vaste kantoordagen: maandag en donderdag

Kandidaten moeten in Nederland woonachtig zijn.

Geen ZZP.

Duur: 02-03-2026 - 31 mei 2026 met optie op verlenging

Aanbieden kan tot: 26-02-2026 14:00

We’re excited to see what you can bring to the team!

Requirements

• You have a Bachelor or Master degree in Data Science, Applied Mathematics, IT or a related field.

• You have at least 5 or more years of experience working as a Data Scientist with a strong focus on software engineering.

• You have strong object-oriented programming and software engineering skills; FastAPI and Python knowledge is a must.

• You are skilled in Git, Databricks, and PySpark.

• You have a passion for building and bringing to production clean, well-structured, maintainable, and testable solutions.

• You have experience in making components that can be reused and standardized to support scale.

• You are curious by heart, open to learning, proactive, and experienced in collaboration with colleagues.

• You communicate well in the English language (both spoken and written).

• Basic understanding of statistical modelling and machine learning.

• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure.

• Experience in model deployment, performance tuning, and monitoring leveraging MLOps/DevOps is a plus.

Sharing would be appricatied! Paylaşırsanız sevinirim! Do you want to work for our client in The Netherlands? Hollandada ICT alaninda calismak?

Let’s meet! Are you the person we’re looking for?

If you are, we are happy to receive your application including your motivation.

Growing a better world together: You'll already be aware that our client is a financial services provider for 7.1 million customers in 40 countries. But did you know that we aim to contribute to real change with our 'Growing a better world together' mission? We do so in countless ways, such as:

A third of all the food we purchase is thrown away. Together with Nature & Environment, we’re working to increase awareness among consumers of how to reduce food waste. As part of a project with Humanitas, we are helping people who are experiencing financial difficulties to get their household finances in order. Together with ‘Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland’ (the Dutch Council for Refugees), we are helping 1,500 refugees find a suitable job. Interested? Do you want to become the ideal version of yourself? We would love to help you fuel and invest in your career and ambitions in an environment where you keep learning every day. We give you the space to innovate and initiate. In this way, we offer you numerous opportunities to grow and help you exceed your expectations, to do the right thing exceptionally well, and to therefore grow as a professional.

Our client is a financial service provider for 7.1 million customers in 40 countries, you know already. Our Red Team works for all the locations of our client in all these countries. Do you also know that we are working together on a better world? We do this in 101 ways like for example our knowledge and experience of Ethical Hacking and Red Teaming sharing with other organizations and "hackers". That belongs to us at ' growing a better world together '

Working conditions: This job role offers a balanced split between operational (run) and project (build) work, with a distribution of 75% operational and 25% project-related tasks. To minimize the impact on business operations, some changes may be scheduled outside of regular business hours.

Do you want this too? Do you aspire to be the best version of yourself? We are delighted to support your development and invest in an environment where continuous learning is encouraged. We provide you with the freedom to innovate and take initiative. By offering numerous growth opportunities, we help you exceed your own expectations and excel in your work, enabling you to grow both personally and professionally.

Moreover, you can expect the following benefits based on a 36 or 40-hour working week:

• An Employee Benefit Budget equivalent to 10% of your monthly income, which you can use according to your preferences. This budget allows you to purchase additional holiday days or make additional contributions to your pension.
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of location-independent work, depending on the team's planning.
• 100% reimbursement of commuting costs if you travel using public transportation. If you commute by car or motorcycle, you can opt for a commuting allowance.
• A pension scheme with a contribution rate of only 5% from your side.

Let's get to know each other.

Are you the person we are looking for? The new colleague who wants to strengthen our client's team and make a difference for yourself, our customers, and society? We would love to receive your application for this vacancy.

Please note: Even if you don't meet all the criteria mentioned in the profile, but you believe you can fulfill the role effectively, we encourage you to apply. We invest in your growth and development.

Responses to applications are handled in accordance with our vacancy management process.

If you have any questions about the application process, ww will be happy to assist you via email (info@if-solutions.nl) office +31 10 210 87 90 or through the provided application link.

Screening is a standard part of the application process. We assess candidates based on the screening procedures followed by our client to ensure that new employees are reliable and suitable for their roles.

For this vacancy, an individual assessment and skills testing may be included as part of the application process.

We believe that everyone is unique, and it is precisely these differences that help us become an even better bank. That's why we are curious to know more about you.