About the Company
Peoplebank are a leading information technology talent consultancy that focuses on providing specialised IT consultants to Tier-1 clients in diverse industries like Banking/Financial Services, Retail, Telecommunications, and Government. Our consultants are engaged in a variety of cutting-edge projects throughout Australia.
About the Role
Our Federal Government Client is seeking Senior Data Scientist.
Initial contract period clarified in response document to 30 June 2026. The extension periods are 12 Months each starting 1 July 2026 and 1 July 2027. Located at our client's ACT, in a hybrid set-up.
Job Details:
Client requires data engineering, data science and data architecture skills to support development greater data capability in the Department and supporting a 'data-informed diplomacy' capability.
The successful candidate will drive OSA's understanding of data to inform policy and program work, including providing advice on best practice data collection, data integrity, data interpretation and representation.
Our ideal candidate will:
* Maintain and develop data systems to support client's data informed diplomacy' objectives including:
* scoping and development of relevant data sources, open source and official
* scoping and building of data models, working with a PowerBI developer
* maintenance and extension of scripts/tools for ETL, data wrangling, data cleaning and robust data syncing, utilising Python and other tools
* Data analysis and visualisation
* Maintain and develop AI tool(s) to support policy analysis including;
* maintenance and extension of a project for the summarisation and further analysis of open-source (news) and official material (Python, OpenAI, Azure)
* subject to stakeholder engagement, expand or fork the tool for other use cases
* fulfil documentation requirements.
Due to security clearance requirements for this role, candidates must be Australian citizens and ability to obtain security clearance.
Apply now for immediate consideration or contact Archna Singh on quoting Job Reference: #
Please note:Only candidates that meet the above criteria will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in the position.