# Senior Data Scientist

Veikkaus is embarking on its most significant transformation yet. As we prepare for the opening of the Finnish licensing market in 2027 and rapidly expand our international presence, data and AI are at the absolute core of our strategy. We are now looking for a Senior Data Scientist to lead the development of advanced personalization and recommendation models. In this key role within our AI Capabilities team, you will design and implement machine learning solutions that enhance customer experience across our digital channels and drive measurable business impact. You will also act as a senior mentor and technical counselor for other data scientists, setting standards for model development, evaluation, and deployment. This is full-time, permanent position and located at Veikkaus headquarters in Pohjois-Haaga, Helsinki. To foster collaboration and effective teamwork we work in a hybrid model with three on-site days per week. Please note that this job requires a valid residence permit for all non-EU citizens. Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to) Design, build, and optimize production-grade recommendation engines and personalization models Develop algorithms for

- **Id**: 3881601
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/veikkaus-senior-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Helsinki, Finland
- **Countries**: FI
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T10:41:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T22:59:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5072
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Sports Betting, iGaming & Gambling

## Company

- **Id**: 456299
- **Name**: Veikkaus
- **Domain**: veikkaus.fi
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/veikkaus-fi>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

## Technologies

- **A/B Testing** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Feature Store** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Finland** — Iso: FI; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:18:54Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:7, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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