# Senior Data Scientist

Who is Shift? Shift provides business finance to small, established and corporate sized businesses in Australia, including Business Overdraft, Equipment Line, Asset Finance, Term Loan and Trade Account. Founded in 2014, Shift has funded more than 30,000 Australian businesses. At Shift, our unique approach to product innovation combined with our collaborative culture means you can build your career in a supportive environment. You’ll be joining a diverse team of over 300 people who are always looking to deliver better outcomes for Australian businesses. About the role: We’re building the credit risk model platform behind every lending decision at Shift. The goal is an always-on, confidence-rated view of risk for every customer, served straight to our Credit Decision Engine so models can make credit calls automatically and our people can focus on customers. Our team has deep statistical and research strength. What we need now is someone with real engineering rigour to take our models from prototype to production and make them scale. You’ll build predictive models and the deployment layer they run on. We use AI heavily in how we work: Claude sits beside us for coding and deployment,

- **Id**: 3951851
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shift-senior-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sydney, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T02:47:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T13:38:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3707
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Business & SME Lending, Factoring & Trade Finance

## Company

- **Id**: 174878
- **Name**: Shift
- **Domain**: shift.com.au
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shift-3>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T04:15:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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