Senior Data Scientist

The role

The Senior Data Scientist will own problems end to end by framing questions, building models or experiments, and shipping them into production. You will work on growth, product personalization, markets, risk, and financial crime using data to drive business decisions.

What you will do

• Frame questions with stakeholders, build models or experiments, ship them, and follow them into production.
• Work backwards from the decision to determine what is needed.
• Stay accountable for models once live through monitoring, drift, and retraining.
• Tell senior stakeholders when a campaign, feature, or rule did not work.
• Support teammates by setting standards for causal inference, reviewing work, and sharing knowledge.

Required qualifications

• Strong applied experience turning a messy business question into a model or measurement.
• Experience with causal inference, predictive models, and ranking models.
• Fluency in Python and SQL.
• Comfort working independently.
• Track record of models that made it into production and changed a decision.
• Sound statistical judgement.
• Exceptional communication skills to derive requirements and facilitate decision-making.

Nice to have

• Experience building with agentic tooling such as MCP or agent frameworks, or automation platforms like n8n.

About the company

Bitvavo is a digital assets trading platform that launched in 2018. It is the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe.