Data Scientist

2 weeks ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment Full time

Date: 31 Jan 2024- Location: Christchurch, NZ, 8013 Wellington, NZ, 6011**Discover a career with purpose at MBIE**:

- Salary range $101,911 - $121,196 with KiwiSaver and wellness benefits.

**Tēnei tūranga - About the Role**:
The Immigration Risk and Border branch within Immigration New Zealand provides up-to-date intelligence and information to advise sound strategic and operational decision making at all levels across the immigration system.

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Identity team.

The Data Scientist will:

- Test, tune, monitor, develop, and optimise the behaviour of the identity matching engines Identify business problems and/or business risks and develop innovative solutions for implementation.
- Provide complex statistical analysis of and recommendations for the maintenance, upgrade or improvement of biometric or biographic matching systems.
- Help monitor the stability of Identity systems and trouble shoot issues with the system as they arise.
- Support the quality assurance process in Identity.
- Advance forecasting of identity resolution volumes.

MBIE supports a wide range of flexible working arrangements. Talk to us about what might work for both you and us.

**Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required**:
To be successful in this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate that you have experience in, or have the qualities that would enable you to successfully perform, the following tasks:

- Competent in the use of data querying, analytical and modelling tools both in SQL and R.
- Experienced in using advanced analytic methods to conduct complex analyses of large amounts of data.
- Experienced in working across multiple analysis disciplines and processes.
- Experienced in using analytics modelling or statistical analysis in a risk and / or operational research environment.
- Capable of translating complex and technical information into information easily understood by non-technical staff.
- Professionally active and aware of recent developments in methodologies and practices.
- Versed or interested in record management, biographic matching, biometric matching, identification sciences and identity management.
- Tertiary qualification to at least master's level, preferably in statistics, data science, econometrics, computer science, operations research, quantitative social-behavioural science, or a similar discipline or equivalent work experience.
- Able to build productive working relationships.
- Able to understand and process new information quickly.
- Have excellent organisational and time management skills.

**Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE**:
MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.
- Mahi Tahi - Better Together
- Māia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

E mōhio ana a Hīkina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kōtuinga I waenganui i a ngāi Māori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ā, kei te whai ia ki te whakaū ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mā te whai kiko o ngā kōtuinga ahungaroa o ngāi wi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, katutuki tēnei. He āhuatanga nui tēnei e āhei ai ngā mahi whanaketanga ā-ohanga, ā-pāpori hoki ki a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui. E whai tonu ana mātou ki te kōtui atu ki ngā iwi mō te rapu huarahi hou ki te whakaara i ngā kaupapakua roa nei e tāmi ana i a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui, ā, e whai ana hoki ki te tautohu i ngā āheinga kōkiritanga mā ngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēnei āheinga.

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