Job Description
XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract
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Senior Data Scientist
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Sydney, Australia | Posted on 08/19/2026
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XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in ****, is a Software Services company
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XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and
Manufacturingdomains.
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We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
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XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
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We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.
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Job Description
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Client Airport's AdvancedAnalytics & AI function turns operational and commercial data intodecisions across parking, aeronautical, retail and airport operations. As aSenior Data Scientist you own our highest value data science use casesend-to-end — from framing the problem with business owners through to deployingand monitoring production models — and act as the trusted technical advisorbridging the business and our onshore/offshore delivery team.
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
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Lead delivery of forecasting andoptimisation use cases such as car-park occupancy and price-
elasticitymodelling,
valet resource optimisation, 18-month and 5-year passenger (PAX)forecasts, ML security-screening forecasts, and retail PSR and cross-sell models.
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Partner directly with business owners acrossParking, Commercial/Aero, Retail and Operations to frame problems, definesuccess measures, and translate model outputs into pricing, capacity, staffingand revenue decisions.
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Design, build, validate and
productionisemodels
in Python on our data science platform (Azure Machine
Learning),integrated
with Snowflake.
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Own model quality and the full lifecycle —feature engineering,



explainability and what-if analysis, batch prediction, andproduction monitoring for data drift and model health.
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Present forecasts, insights andrecommendations to senior stakeholders and executives, and run scenarioanalysis to support high-stakes decisions (e.g. capacity build vs no-build,pricing strategy).
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Set technical direction and mentor onshoreand offshore data scientists; review work and lift delivery standards.
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SKILLS & EXPERIENCE —ESSENTIAL
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7+ years' applied data science, with a trackrecord of models deployed to production and adopted by the business.
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Expert in Python (pandas, scikit-learn andrelated ML/stats libraries) and SQL, with a robust foundation in
timeseriesforecasting,
regression, classification and clustering.
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Hands-on experience with an enterprise MLplatform (Azure ML or equivalent AutoML) and a cloud data warehouse (Snowflakeor equivalent).
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Proven MLOps discipline — model deployment,batch-prediction pipelines, monitoring, drift detection and retraining.
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Working experience on Microsoft Azure (e.g.Azure ML, Azure DevOps, storage and compute services).
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Excellent stakeholder engagement and datastorytelling — able to turn technical results into commercial decisions andpresent with confidence to executives.
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Degree in a quantitative
discipline(Statistics,
Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or Data Science) orequivalent experience.
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DESIRABLE
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Aviation, transport, or pricing /revenue-management and forecasting-heavy operational domains.
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Power BI, explainable AI, optimisation, andA/B testing frameworks.
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Familiarity with Responsible AI governanceand privacy-aware analytics.
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Experience leading or mentoring
distributedonshore/offshore
teams.
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OUR TOOLS & ENVIRONMENT
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📌 Senior Data Scientist (New South Wales)
🏢 Xpt Software Australia
📍 New South Wales