Data Scientist Job at Sterling Bank Plc

Sterling Bank Plc "Your one-customer bank" is a full service national commercial bank in Nigeria. In over 50 years of operations, Sterling Bank (formerly NAL Bank) has evolved from the nation’s pre-eminent investment banking institution to a fully-fledged commercial bank; and completed a merger with 4 other banks - Indo-Nigeria Merchant Bank, Magnum Trust Bank, NBM Bank and Trust Bank of Africa - as part of the 2006 consolidation of the Nigerian banking industry.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Data Scientist
Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• We're looking for a Data Scientist excited to help *build the best digital banking products
• You'll have the opportunity to super charge our user growth to help shape the future of what we build
• You will enjoy working alongside brilliant engineers and product managers, with the opportunity to see your insights turned into real products on a regular basis.

About this Role
Our Data Science team's mission is to:

• Enable us to Make Better Decisions, Faster

This mission encompasses three major areas of work:

• Product analytics, to help teams understand our customers and improve our app
• Domain analytics, to support teams who are working in specific banking disciplines (e.g., lending, operations, finance, and financial crime), and
• Machine learning, where we design and build system that automate decisions across products.

While we take a flexible approach and frequently help each other across these areas, we each have one domain as our primary focus. We work in cross-functional squads, so every data scientist is a member of the central data team as well as fully embedded into another team alongside engineers, designers, product managers etc.

As part of your role, you'll:

• Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our products and how those insights can inform our product strategy
• Monitor key product metrics, understanding root causes of changes in metrics
• Guide and enable product teams to measure things that matter; initiate or help run A/B experiments to keep improving everything we do
• Drive together with the finance team a unified company-wide understanding of the lifetime value of our users and how different product features are impacting user profitability
• Liaise with engineers to keep making sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights

Logistics:

• Our main office is in Marina Lagos, though you have the opportunity to work remotely twice a week.

Requirements
You should apply if:

• You're impact driven* and eager to have a real positive impact on the company, product, users and very importantly your colleagues as well
• You're *commercially minded* and can put numbers into business perspective
• You are focused on results and have demonstrated success in using analytics to drive the understanding, growth, and success of a product.
• You’re as comfortable getting hands-on as taking a step back and thinking strategically
• You have a *self-starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so
• You're a *team player* whom your colleagues can rely on
• You have solid grounding in a scripting language (e.g. Python, Perl)

Qualifications & Characteristics
As an ideal candidate for this role, you would have:

• At least 2 years of professional experience doing quantitative analysis for product or growth analytics, preferably in a fast moving tech company
• Experience in conducting large scale A/B experiments in the past
• A solid understanding of statistics (e.g. hypothesis testing, regressions)
• The ability to communicate the results of analyses with the rest of your team to influence the future strategy of the product and business
• Experience manipulating data sets through statistical software (ex. R, SAS, pandas) or other methods
• Experience automating analyses and authoring pipelines via MongoDB and python based ETL frameworks

What the hiring process looks like... typically

• An on-site interview (varies by role and seniority, but we may invite you to a technical interview, product/design-centric session, and possibly an engineering leadership interview).
• A short meeting with our head of engineering.

You'll be given an offer if you can pass these two stages.

Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:

Competitive Salary:

• To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.

Work Tool:

• Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.

Work From Home:

• Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.

Holiday:

• 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!

Pensions:

• In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.

Knowledge Sharing:

• Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.

Libraries:

• Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.

Learning and Development:

• Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.

Team Bonding:

• Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.

Health Insurance:

• Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).

Maternity And Paternity Leave:

• Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.

Catered Lunch:

• Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office—you're in for a treat!

Gym Membership:

• We care about your wellbeing—physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind

Note

• We understand that everyone's situation is different, that you may be able to dedicate more or less time to our hiring process, or have other restrictions
• If any of our process is challenging for you and you'd like us to offer alternative or special arrangements, please let us know. We're committed to finding the right people, and don't want anyone to be excluded because of their circumstances.
• Questions about this role? Send an e-mail to: talentacquisition@sterling.ng