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Salary

SALARY:

€90000 - €100000

Location

LOCATION

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Senior Data Scientist (ML / Recommender Systems Focus)

Amsterdam (Hybrid, 3 days per week)

80,000 - 100,000

Are you a Senior Data Scientist who enjoys solving complex commercial problems through machine learning? This is an opportunity to join a growing technology business where recommendation systems sit at the heart of the product strategy. You'll have significant ownership, influence ML direction, and work closely with stakeholders to build solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

The Company

This growing fintech business operates in a fast-paced, data-driven environment, using machine learning to improve customer experiences and commercial outcomes. With a collaborative culture and a highly visible data function, they are investing in their data science capability to support continued growth. You will join a small, talented team where your work will have a direct impact on products, customers, and business performance.

The Role

You will play a key role in designing, building, and improving recommendation and personalisation systems while helping shape the future of machine learning within the business.

Responsibilities include:

  • Building and enhancing recommendation engines and ranking models
  • Developing machine learning solutions from problem definition through to deployment
  • Applying classification and ensemble modelling techniques to solve business challenges
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to understand commercial objectives and translate them into scalable ML solutions
  • Driving experimentation and optimisation across personalisation initiatives
  • Supporting the growth and maturity of the data science function
  • Contributing to the adoption of machine learning approaches that replace manual or rules-based processes
  • Working with cloud-based technologies and modern machine learning tooling

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in machine learning and data science
  • Proven experience building recommendation engines, recommender systems, or personalisation platforms
  • Strong Python development skills
  • Experience delivering production-ready machine learning solutions
  • Expertise in classification modelling and predictive analytics
  • Ability to translate business problems into practical technical solutions
  • Commercial mindset with strong stakeholder engagement skills
  • Experience working within collaborative, fast-moving environments
  • Comfortable taking ownership and operating with a high degree of autonomy

Desirable experience includes:

  • Ranking and recommendation algorithms
  • AWS
  • Language models and NLP applications
  • Startup or scale-up environments
  • Personalisation and customer experience optimisation

What They Offer

  • Salary of 80,000 - 100,000
  • Hybrid working model with three office days per week in Amsterdam
  • High-impact role with significant ownership and visibility
  • Opportunity to influence machine learning strategy and technical direction
  • Exposure to challenging recommendation and personalisation problems
  • Collaborative team environment with strong growth potential
  • Excellent career development opportunities as the business scales

How to Apply

If you are an experienced Senior Data Scientist with expertise in machine learning and recommender systems, apply today to learn more about this opportunity.

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