Junior Data Scientist CDAO Analytics Acceleration - Early Career Program

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 3,447 and EUR 4,923 (scale 07).
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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Are you passionate about data and love solving complex analytical puzzles? Challenge yourself and us, and make an impact with the Advanced Analytics Early Career Program at Rabobank. Grow your skills, discover your potential, and help us uncover new possibilities for Rabobank.

The Responsible GenAI squad drives the development and implementation of Generative AI solutions that enable the bank to apply AI effectively in practice. These solutions enhance the customer journey, streamline data processing, answer internal staff queries, and generate insights and reports to facilitate workflows. To accelerate innovation, the team also develops APIs that help other teams build GenAI solutions faster and more efficiently.

As a Junior Data Scientist, you will contribute to building, monitoring, and optimizing the performance of GenAI solutions across diverse use cases within the bank. You’ll be at the forefront of creating tools that tackle complex challenges, improve efficiency, and unlock new opportunities. Your work will involve exploring topics such as responsible GenAI, performance monitoring, red teaming, and evaluating GenAI models for fairness and bias.

During this Early Career Program at Rabobank, you’ll develop your career over 18 months by becoming an expert in your field. Throughout the program, you’ll stay with one team and receive training to enhance your hard skills. You’ll be paired with a buddy who will guide you in navigating the bank. For your personal development, you and your fellow starters will follow the Early Career Program and receive guidance from a Data & Analytics Development Consultant. We are here to prepare you for sustainable career!

• Length: 18 months in one fixed team, after which you will continue working within your team (no rotations)
• Hours per week: 40. About 20% of your weekly working time is spent on personal development, training and other activities. The other hours are spent working within your team; 
• Every Friday afternoon is Data & Analytics Early Career Program  afternoon at the office!  
• Start date: +/- 1st of April 2026

Your development as a Young ProfessionalWithin this program, you will have the opportunity to get to know yourself, your trade, and Rabobank. You will start the program in a junior position within one team, participate in (online) workshops and training modules with other young professionals, and quickly gain practical experience.

Together with Data & Analytics community there is room for creativity and initiative to organize events, training sessions, and knowledge-sharing sessions. This way, we continuously improve the program and ourselves! You will easily build a large and valuable network within the bank.

Learning from each otherDevelopment is our top priority. The best way to learn is by doing, through mistakes and successes. At Rabobank, we offer you the right balance between freedom and supervision. Develop talents you never thought you possessed, specialize in a professional field, or explore the things you're good at and enjoy doing. During your Advanced Analytics Early Career Program, you can count on us for excellent supervision. You'll work with experienced colleagues and have lots of contact with other Advanced Analytics young professionals.

“As a computer science graduate specializing in machine learning, the Responsible GenAI squad has been the perfect environment for my growth. I work on data science challenges using LLMs to solve customer problems while also gaining exposure to complex engineering topics, creating an exceptional learning experience.” – Martijn Jansen, Advanced Analytics Early Career Program Graduate

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That's why we want to invest in you and work together towards a better world. We summarize this in one sentence: "At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time."

This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment, and a good work-life balance. You can work on banking matters for our private and business clients, but also on societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

• Educational Background: You have obtained a Master's in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Informatics or a similar field.
• Work Experience: Approximately 0-2 years of work experience.
• Residency: Currently living in the Netherlands.
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate quantitative analysis into comprehensive information for higher management and business users.
• Technical Skills: Knowledge of Python as well as (interest in learning) Databricks, PySpark, cloud technologies (e.g. Azure), Git, CI/CD, ETL processes, SQL
• Language Proficiency: Excellent command of the English language.

• € 4.007,83 gross per month (scale 7), holiday allowance and thirteenth month salary    
• An Employee Benefit Budget of 10% of your monthly salary to be used at your discretion. Buy extra holiday hours, add more to your pension savings or ask for part of the extra budget to be paid out.  
• Personal budget of € 1.400 to spend on activities related to your personal development and career flexible working times and location-independent working  
• A combination of working from home and at the Utrecht office. 

We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. What can you bring to Rabobank? We can't wait to hear from you.

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Nancy Leenders, Young Talent Recruiter, via Nancy.Leenders@rabobank.nl 
• 1st Interviews will be held via MS Teams.
• 2nd Interviews will be held at our offices in Utrecht. A case will be part of the 2nd interview process. The 2nd interview is to be scheduled at the end of february! Physical attendance is expected.
• Assessments are part of the application process which will be done before the 1st interview.
• Due to the high volume of applicants, individual feedback is unfortunately not always possible. But please note we review every single application with care.
• Due to the high volume of applications, we cannot handle applications via e-mail. Please apply via our career page. Thank you!
• Please make sure to attach your cv and motivational letter. If one document’s missing, we are unable to consider your application. 
• A security check is part of the process.
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