Data Scientist | Senior Data Scientist, Australia - BCG X

BCG X Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Overview Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation‑inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom‑line impact.

What You’ll Do Our BCG X teams own the full analytics value‑chain end to end: framing new business challenges, designing innovative algorithms, implementing, and deploying scalable solutions, and enabling colleagues and clients to fully embrace AI. Our product offerings span from fully custom‑builds to industry specific leading edge AI software solutions.

As a Data Scientist | Senior Data Scientist, you’ll be part of our rapidly growing team. You’ll have the chance to apply data science methods and analytics to real‑world business situations across a variety of industries to drive significant business impact. You’ll partner with clients in a variety of BCG regions and industries, and on key topics like climate change, enabling them to design, build, and deploy new and innovative solutions.

Additional responsibilities include developing and delivering thought leadership in scientific communities and papers as well as leading conferences on behalf of BCG X.

Responsibilities

Comfortable in a client‑facing role with the ambition to lead teams

Distill complex results or processes into simple, clear visualizations

Explain sophisticated data science concepts in an understandable manner

Love building things and are comfortable working with modern development tools and writing code collaboratively (bonus points if you have a software development or DevOps experience)

Significant experience applying advanced analytics to a variety of business situations and a proven ability to synthesize complex data

Deep understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings, and can translate this into business implications for our clients

Strong project management skills

What You’ll Bring

Preferably master’s degree or bachelor’s in computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or a related field

2–6 years of relevant work experience in data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or big data

Proficiency in Python and other programming languages and tools for data analysis and machine learning

Experience in using machine learning techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, natural language processing, computer vision, etc.

Familiarity with industry‑specific skills such as retail analytics, healthcare analytics, financial analytics, etc.

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Engineering and Information Technology

Industries Business Consulting and Services

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