XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract
Senior Data Scientist
Sydney, Australia | Posted on 09/02/2026
XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in ****, is a Software Services company
XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.
We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.
Job Description
Client'sAdvanced Analytics & AI function turns operational and commercial data intodecisions across parking, aeronautical, retail and airport operations.
As aSenior Data Scientist (Onshore) you own our highest value data science usecases end-to-end — from framing the problem with business owners through todeploying and monitoring production models — and act as the trusted technicaladvisor bridging the business and our onshore/offshore delivery team.
KEYRESPONSIBILITIES:
Leaddelivery of forecasting and optimisation use cases such as car-parkoccupancy and price-elasticity modelling, valet resource optimisation,18-month and 5-year passenger (PAX) forecasts, ML security-screeningforecasts, and retail PSR and cross-sell models.
Partnerdirectly with business owners across Parking, Commercial/Aero, Retail andOperations to frame problems, define success measures, and translate modeloutputs into pricing, capacity, staffing and revenue decisions.
Design,build, validate and productionise models in Python on our data scienceplatform (Azure Machine Learning), integrated with Snowflake.




Ownmodel quality and the full lifecycle — feature engineering, explainabilityand what-if analysis, batch prediction, and production monitoring for datadrift and model health.
Presentforecasts, insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders andexecutives, and run scenario analysis to support high-stakes decisions(e.g. capacity build vs no-build, pricing strategy).
Settechnical direction and mentor onshore and offshore data scientists,review work and lift delivery standards.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE —ESSENTIAL:
7+years' applied data science, with a track record of models deployed toproduction and adopted by the business.
Expertin Python (pandas, scikit-learn and related ML/stats libraries) and SQL,with a robust foundation in time series forecasting, regression,classification and clustering.
Hands-onexperience with an enterprise ML platform (Azure ML or equivalent AutoML)and a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake or equivalent).
ProvenMLOps discipline — model deployment, batch-prediction pipelines,monitoring, drift detection and retraining.
Excellentstakeholder engagement and data storytelling — able to turn technicalresults into commercial decisions and present with confidence toexecutives.
Degreein a quantitative discipline (Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science,Engineering or Data Science) or equivalent experience.
DESIRABLE:
Aviation,transport, or pricing / revenue-management and forecasting-heavyoperational domains.
PowerBI, explainable AI, optimisation, and A/B testing frameworks.
Familiaritywith Responsible AI governance and privacy-aware analytics.
Experienceleading or mentoring distributed onshore/offshore teams.
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📌 Senior Data Scientist (Sydney)
🏢 Xpt Software Australia
📍 Sydney