NOBA Bank Group • Heltid • Oslo
NOBA Bank Group • Heltid • Oslo
Numbers tell stories, and in credit risk, those stories decide how a bank understands its customers. We're looking for a Data Scientist to join our IFRS9/Modelling team and help shape the models that measure risk for over a million customers across six countries. If you enjoy the mix of modelling, engineering, and real-world impact, this could be your next chapter.
Introduction to the team:
We are the IFRS9/Modelling team, and credit risk sits at the heart of how we run the bank. We build the models that quantify expected credit losses, and the in-house engine that turns them into the bank's monthly figures - covering unsecured loans, credit cards, and credit lines across Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Spain. Right now, we're moving that engine from on-premises to Databricks on Azure, and shaping how we build in the cloud.
About the role:
As a Data Scientist, you develop the credit risk models behind our customers' risk profiles and help maintain the engine that puts them into production. You'll move between modelling, engineering, and analysis, and see your work through from data to decision.
What you'll do:
Develop, validate, implement, and simulate credit risk models, PD scorecards, LGD, EAD, staging, and macroeconomic adjustment
Implement models as production code in our ECL engine, including unit tests and code review
Build and maintain risk monitoring, forecasting, and reporting tools
Document models and implementations to the standard our validators, auditors, and regulators expect
Query and prepare the data behind all of the above (mostly SQL)
Help complete and improve our move to Databricks on Azure
Carry out analytical work and present results to technical and business audiences
Collaborate with IT, Finance, Marketing, and other departments
Who we're looking for:
You're structured, turning recurring tasks into documented procedures you keep refining. You're at home in complex systems, tracing results back to their cause. You're accountable, curious, and self-driven, equally comfortable working solo or as part of a team, and used to juggling parallel projects within a monthly reporting cycle.
Beyond this, we're looking for someone with:
Higher education in a quantitative subject
Around two to three years of relevant working experience (a PhD or research experience counts)
Solid Python for data work: pandas, numpy, scipy - from first analysis through to production code
Confidence writing your own SQL, or readiness to pick it up quickly
A habit of maintainable code and clear documentation with version control, tests, and code review
Strong written and spoken English, including presenting to specialists and non-specialists alike
Strongly preferred: experience with credit scoring or scorecard modelling (binning, WoE, logistic regression, calibration, Gini/PSI monitoring), and banking or credit risk experience.
A plus: IFRS9 models, Databricks/Azure or other cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and fluent in Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish.
You don't need to tick every box, if most of this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
In addition to this, it is important to us that you recognize yourself in our values: we are wholehearted, we collaborate and we take the lead.
Practical information:
Start: As soon as possible
Location: Snarøyveien 36, Fornebu
Form of employment: Full time
For this position, we conduct a credit check on the candidate we offer the job to. Employment is contingent upon a satisfactory result.
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With a diversified offering through three brands – Nordax Bank, Bank Norwegian and Svensk Hypotekspension – as well as two million consumers, we have the size, skill, and scalability to enable healthier finances for even more people. NOBA creates specialized, customer-centric financial offerings that are sustainable for individuals, the bank and society at large, today and tomorrow. NOBA Bank Group AB (publ) (“NOBA”) is owned by Nordic Capital Fund IX, Nordic Capital Fund VIII and Sampo. Today the NOBA group has approximately 630 employees and is active in eight countries.
As of March 31, 2024, lending to the public amounted to SEK 114.4 billion and deposits totaled SEK 105.2 billion.
Founded in 2003
Employees: 600+