(GenAI) Data Scientist

Do you want to use the latest technology and tools to build LLM-powered solutions that make services for customers and colleagues better, faster, and easier? Are you a data scientist with knowledge of and hands-on experience in GenAI who is ready for a new challenge? Do you want to optimize and automate processes using LLMs and Agents? Then this position is just right for you! We are expanding and looking for a colleague to strengthen our team.

You will be part of the AI team for the L&P Services branch which serves as the expertise centre for external chat, building scalable and repeatable GenAI-based chat solutions for the entire Nationale-Nederlanden group. As these involve NLP applications for the Dutch language, proficiency in Dutch is required.

What you are going to do

Together with your team, you will develop innovative AI solutions that create value for our company of tomorrow. Exploring new technology and matching it to opportunities, building new solutions, and implementing them are the key aspects of your role. You will use state-of-the-art techniques such as RAG, LLM frameworks, and OpenAI APIs. You understand how to help business colleagues translate their needs into AI solutions. But you also won’t shy away from implementing ‘traditional’ machine learning techniques to create benefits for the department.

Specifically, you will:

• Develop and implement innovative (Gen)AI solutions to optimize processes

• Implement existing AI solutions from other departments for our own department

• Collaborate with business units to continuously spot new opportunities

• Analyse and resolve complex business and technical challenges

What we offer you

NN invests in an inclusive, inspiring work environment and in skills and competences for the future. We match this with employee benefits that are in line with what is needed today and in the future. This way, we offer our employees the opportunity to get the best out of themselves. We offer you:

• Salary between €4,547 and €6,496 depending on your knowledge and experience, based on a 40-hour work week

• 13th month and holiday allowance paid with your monthly salary

• 27 vacation days for a 5-day working week and one Diversity Day

• A modern pension administered by BeFrank

• Plenty of training and learning opportunities

• NS Business Card 2nd class, which gives you unlimited travel, also privately. Prefer to travel with your own transport? Then you can declare the kilometres travelled

• Allowances for setting up your home office and for internet use

Who you are

You have:

• A master’s degree in data science, econometrics, or a related field

• Demonstrable experience with Python and developing ML applications, deploying LLMs, or implementing RAG

• Experience with LangGraph and agentic frameworks is an advantage

• Practical knowledge of the data science process, such as data collection, cleansing, model evaluation, and model implementation

• Preferably experience with software engineering practices, such as Azure, CI/CD tools, Git, automated testing, etc

• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and customer-oriented attitude, excellent communication skills in, and the ability to work effectively within an Agile team and with end users

But above all, you are keen to further develop the above points on the job.

Who you will work with

You’ll be part of the AI L&P Services team, an Agile, self-organizing team consisting of 4 data scientists and a business process manager. Together, we spot AI opportunities, build the solutions, and implement them. We collaborate closely with an engineering team that helps us host our solutions in a robust manner and with different IT teams that help us implement our solutions. We work according to the Scrum methodology and alternate between working from home and working at the office, which is literally next door to Rotterdam Central Station. The atmosphere is collegial, open, and informal, with plenty of room where we heavily appreciate proactiveness and new ideas.

At Nationale-Nederlanden, we work in a hybrid manner: partly from home and partly at the office. Teams meet digitally, physically, or in a hybrid format. You and your team will decide what works best. Our offices are designed to provide suitable spaces for every type of work. The official location for this position is The Hague.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about the job, you can reach out via e-mail to Floris Zinnemers at floris.zinnemers@nn.nl. Any questions about the process can be directed to Joost Stroes via Joost.Stroes1@nn-group.com.