Optus

About Us 

Optus’ vision is to become Australia’s most loved everyday brand with lasting customer relationships, a brand that excites customers by bringing together their digital life with their daily lives. The business is focused on designing innovative products and services that entertain customers and enhance their lives, delivered with engaging service and a network where it matters. At Optus we don’t sit back and let the future happen to us – we’re out there marking a difference. By expanding into new technology and relentlessly improving every day, we’re working to create a better tomorrow for all Australians.

About the Role

The Data Science Chapter exists to use data in new ways that surface hidden insight, helping to realise the vision of becoming a more customer centric organisation. As a key member of the Data Science Chapter, you will help lead, ideate, develop, build, deploy and drive adoption of data science within the organisation. You will be joining a team with a fantastic culture, where an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset is openly celebrated and supported. Working with stakeholders across Optus Consumer, in both Agile and non-Agile environments, you will take a central role in supporting the Associate Director of Data Science to establish a data driven culture with a focus on driving the adoption of data science, ensuring that the analytical assets produced are robust, scalable and add value. You will work with senior leaders across the organisation, to lead & drive the adoption of data science as well as create an understanding of how data science can best be utilised in a marketing context.

More specifically, as a Data Scientist, you will: 

• Deliver tangible analytical assets, utilising appropriate advanced analytical techniques and productionise these into the modelling pipeline (which includes, but not limited to, propensity modelling, machine learning, mathematical optimisation)
• Possess the ability to work with large amounts of information and see the ‘bigger picture’, conduct data discovery, apply basic, complex and/or data science techniques for automation using a hypothesis driven approach
• Support the development and execution of the Data Science roadmap across Optus Consumer
• Collaborate with users and stakeholders to develop, test and document new ways to help provide data driven outcomes to the business
• Support the ongoing implementation of cutting-edge machine learning solutions and best practice Data Science within the Chapter and across the Optus Analytics Communities to help community members build robust analytical solutions

About You

You are a self-starter with a growth mindset and a collaborative attitude – unconventional backgrounds welcome ! You will have strong communication skills and agile thinking mindset to settle into a new environment quickly and achieve results quickly. You enjoy being hands-on and are excited to apply your data science knowledge to uncovering insights hidden in vast amounts of data, wrangling & engineering that information and developing meaningful analytical assets that add value to the organisation. You thrive on being empowered with the autonomy to perform your role, whilst leveraging the support of the Chapter and collaborating with peers and stakeholders. You are proactive, flexible, adaptable to change, enjoy dynamic environments and thrive on the challenge of driving adoption. Our values Customer Focus, Challenger Spirit, Teamwork, Integrity and Personal excellence will resonate with you deeply and you will enjoy being part of iconic Australian company that prides itself on innovation and putting the customer at the centre of everything.

Other skills and experience include: 

• Tertiary qualifications in a STEM or business discipline
• Experience in building large scale, end-to-end machine learning systems using a combination of big data tools and programming languages like R, Spark/Scala, Java and Python (PySpark preferred) and workflow management and code repositories such as Github/Bitbucket, JIRA Sharepoint & Confluence
• Sound communication and influencing skills with stakeholders from a range of backgrounds with varying levels of technical competency
• Inquisitive nature – a desire to go beneath the surface of a problem, find the questions at its heart, and distil them into a very clear set of hypotheses that can be tested

Why Optus

Optus is a place where we let you do you. We offer all kinds of benefits, such as: Work collaboratively in an open, Agile environment with flexible working hours and location; Discounts with over 400 companies Australia wide (Technology, Retail, Home, Fashion and more!); Mobile & Broadband staff discounts; Participate in a unique campus environment where you can interact, learn, develop new relationships and have new experiences. Onsite facilities at Macquarie Park such as a Gym, GP, Mini-mart and cafes; Training, Mentoring and further learning opportunities and subsidised staff bus service between campus and Epping and campus and campus and Wynyard !