Data Scientist, Generative AI

Are you excited about the possibility to apply your skillset to craft innovative solutions for our employees? Do subjects like AI, GPT, and LLMs inspire your day-to-day work? If your answer is yes, keep on reading, as we are now growing our Data Platform and AI tribe with a Data Scientist!

More about the role and team:

Your role as a Data Scientist will involve spearheading the advancement and upkeep of OP Group’s internal AI Chat alongside your team, contributing to its evolution and maintenance. At OP, we offer you the opportunity to grow your skills and to actively participate in shaping the future of our AI Technologies! 
  
The Generative AI team focuses on bringing the latest AI capabilities to OP Financial Group. We already have our internal AI chat for in-house use, which serves our employees in their daily work. The team plays a significant role in shaping how Generative AI impacts OP Financial Group.
 
As a Data Scientist, you will have a crucial role within our team, actively contributing to the development of our final product. You will help use cases come to life, be it with helping business users with prompt engineering, optimizing search engines, or experimenting with custom LLM solutions. 

You won't be working alone. Your will be closely interacting with both the people who use our data within the organization and the team responsible for putting these ideas into practice. A crucial part of your job will also be designing the actual product itself. This means defining the model, and deciding how users will interact with it. You won't be doing this alone either—you'll collaborate with a developer to make this design a reality, contributing to the entire process of putting it into action. 
 
This opportunity is available in either Helsinki or Oulu, based on your preference. Like the rest of OP, we work in a flexible manner, combining both office days and remote work.

What do we wish from you? 
 
We are seeking a candidate who already has experience from Data Scientist work and related software development. You have a strong understanding of what creating AI products entails. Experience with Azure or LLMs (Large language models) would be considered as a plus. 
 
We also appreciate an understanding of deep learning and the ability to script for new data sources using Python. Ideally you should be skilled with Data Scientist’s toolkit and enthusiastic with agile software development. 
 
We understand that you might not have experience in all these areas just yet. What really matters is your motivation and willingness to learn and grow. In our team, we also appreciate taking initiative, strong teamwork skills, and a positive attitude. We also hope you can communicate clearly and understandably in English and/or Finnish.

What we offer:  
 
To help counterbalance work where you are expected to take a lot of responsibility, we seek to ensure employee wellbeing and to enable forward-looking work arrangements. We offer a stable working environment where you can contribute to our core values: responsibility, people first and succeeding together.

You will enjoy a wide range of staff benefits, including a personnel fund and special terms for employee banking, insurance and loan services. We offer comprehensive occupational health care, extensive medical treatment expenses insurance and a full-time group accident insurance policy. Furthermore, we invest in wellbeing at work by encouraging a good work-life balance, providing flexibility in your daily life, and offering lunch, sport and cultural benefits and opportunities for affordable holidays in OP timeshares.   
 
We also encourage and help you to further develop yourself as a technical professional. We have the so called “70/20/10 rule” in use, which means you will use 70% of your time for your daily tasks, 20% to develop the way you do those tasks, and the last 10% is reserved for you to learn and try new things. You will also have our OP Software Academy at your disposal in case you are interested in learning new technologies or methodologies, or why not in honing your skills in your current stack.  
 

Sounds like your future role?
 
Great – that’s what we were hoping for! The application period is open until 7.4.2024. Any questions in mind? Product Owner Sauli Herrala (sauli.herrala@op.fi) will be happy to answer your questions. Talk to you soon future colleague!
 
In the financial sector, our business is founded on trust and accountability, which is why the successful candidate will be checked for credit history and corporate connections, must take a drug test and a security clearance vetting made by the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.
 
Equality and diversity are highly valued at OP Financial Group. We welcome job applications from people of all kinds, regardless of their gender identity or age, or the culture or minority group with which they identify.
 
OP Financial Group is the leading financial services group in Finland. Owned by our customers, we are one of the most alluring employers in the Financial sector. OP Financial Group employs over 13,000 professionals and provides banking, asset management, wealth management, insurance and brokerage services for our four million customers. For more information about OP as an employer and for all vacancies, go to www.op-careers.fi #LI-MM1