Senior Data Scientist to Handelsbanken
- Application Deadline: Sept. 6, 2026
- Stockholm
Join the AI & Automation team at Handelsbanken as we help the bank make smarter, data‑driven decisions and deliver the best possible experience for customers and employees.
About the team
We’re on a mission to lead the industry in advanced analytics and AI, delivering smarter products, services, and experiences for our customers. Our cross-functional team, consisting of Data Scientist, Data and Platform Engineers and a Product Manager, combines deep technical expertise with a passion for innovation. Together, we design scalable solutions that use statistics, machine learning, and GenAI to solve real business challenges across the bank.
Your role
As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll work hands-on with data, models, and analyses across the bank. You´ll develop, apply, and improve data science and machine learning models. You´ll explore analytical approaches to business challenges and evaluate what will create the most value. You´ll work across the entire data science lifecycle, from idea and exploration to deployment and evaluation. You´ll collaborate closely with your colleagues to understand business challenges, explore analytical approaches, and help implement effective solutions. You’ll play an important role in communicate insights clearly and effectively, ensuring decisions are grounded in data.
In this role, you’ll have the freedom to explore new analytical questions, the support of experienced colleagues, and opportunities to experiment with new tools, methods, and techniques.
Great Place to Work
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Tjänstepension
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Resultatandelssystem
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Gruppförsäkring
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Friskvårdsbidrag
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Bidrag vid föräldraledighet
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Banktjänster
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Banking services
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Benefit in connection with parental leave
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Health promotion subsidy
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Group insurance
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Occupational pension
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Profit-sharing scheme
Skills & Requirements
Your profile
You hold a Master’s degree, PhD, or similar experience in a quantitative field and have experience working as a Data Scientist, preferably in banking or finance. You have strong problem-solving skills and enjoy working with data to understand complex questions and develop analytical solutions. You also have strong skills in Python and SQL for analysis, modelling, and production workflows.
For this role, we believe you have:
- Applied knowledge of statistics and mathematics, ideally with a focus on machine learning.
- Experience communicating technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
- Ability to understand business needs and translate them into analytical solutions.
- Experience with large language models or retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) is a plus.
- Swedish language skills — or a willingness to learn.
As a person, you’re curious and inventive, continuously striving to learn and improve. You stay up to date with new developments and explore new technologies and best practices. You share our commitment to being smart, humble, and collaborative. We offer a stable, value‑driven workplace with long‑term thinking, trust, and autonomy at its core.
What we offer:
- Occupational pension
- Profit-sharing scheme
- Banking services
- Parental-leave benefits
- Health promotion subsidy
- Group insurance
Welcome with your application
As part of Handelsbanken’s recruitment process, candidates who progress to the next stage will be asked to complete a logical reasoning and personality test. The final candidate is also required to undergo and successfully pass a background check conducted by an external provider before employment can be offered.
Contact details
Recruiting manager: Jovan Zamac, jovan.zamac@handelsbanken.se
Talent Acquisition Partner: Alva Jonerot, alva.jonerot@handelsbanken.se
Union representative Finansförbundet: Per Almshult, per.almshult@handelsbanken.se
Union representative Akademikerföreningen: Bjarne Nilsson, bjarne.nilsson@handelsbanken.se
Work with great people
About the company
You are given great personal responsibility and the possibility to influence your own and the Bank’s future development. Our various perspectives, insights and innovative ideas are the foundation for how we continue to build the Bank for the future. For us, continual progress is everything, and when you evolve, so does the Bank.
Our idea of running a bank is based on trust and respect for the individual. Our values and strong corporate culture are vital to our success and guide us in how we achieve our goals, co-operate, and support each other. Through a strong local presence, a decentralised way of working, and a long-term perspective, we create sustainable relationships that last through all the stages of life. To us at Handelsbanken, everyone is important. We come from different places with different backgrounds, experience and education. Together, we are Handelsbanken.
Mer om HandelsbankenMer om Handelsbanken
TOMBildades 1871
TOMEn av världens starkaste banker
TOMAll verksamhet utgår från kunden
TOMDecentraliserat arbetssätt med tilltro och respekt för individen
TOMRikstäckande kontorsnät på våra hemmamarknader
TOMHöga hållbarhetsambitioner
TOMI koncernen arbetar drygt 12 000 medarbetare. 44% av alla chefer är kvinnor.
TOMHögre lönsamhet än genomsnittet för jämförbara konkurrenter
TOMFormed in 1871
TOMOne of the world’s strongest banks
TOMAll business starts with the customer
TOMDecentralised working method based on trust in and respect for the individual
TOMNationwide branch network in our home markets
TOMHigh ambitions regarding sustainability
TOMThe Group has just over 12,000 employees. 44% of all managers are women
TOMHigher profitability than the average of peer banks
Jovan Zamac | Contact Person
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