Principal Data Scientist; gn hybrid

Your job at DKV Mobility? As part of a leading European B2B platform for on-the-road payment solutions, you will work in an exciting environment. Our tasks are defined by our

Purpose:

To drive the transition towards an efficient and sustainable future of mobility. We offer you numerous opportunities to help shape the mobility of tomorrow in a dynamic and agile environment. Our approximately 2,700 employees throughout Europe are united by a common passion: to give their best every day for our customers in more than 50 countries. True to our claim:
You drive, we care. Become part of our diverse, dedicated and unique team!

Do you want to actively contribute to a company’s growth and help turn big plans into reality? Then join our team! You can expect exciting challenges, an inspiring environment, and a work culture that combines flexibility and collaboration – supported by our 60/40 hybrid model and modern offices in Ratingen as a vibrant hub for new ideas.

• You take end-to-end ownership of the Smart Risk Engine, the group-wide core rating and probability-of-default model that drives onboarding and offboarding decisions in Credit Management.
• You design, train, calibrate, validate, deploy, and continuously improve machine learning models to ensure high business impact and reliability.
• You monitor model performance, conduct drift analyses across markets and customer segments, and drive improvements to both models and risk strategies.
• You build and enhance scalable end-to-end ML pipelines, including testing, versioning, documentation, and production deployment.
• You establish and drive best-practice MLOps standards, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, model registries, data quality controls, and incident management.
• You act as a trusted advisor to management and business stakeholders while providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to data scientists.

• You bring extensive experience (ideally 7+ years) in Data Science and Machine Learning, working with production-grade models.
• You have strong expertise in Python, SQL, and cloud data platforms such as Azure, Databricks, or Snowflake.
• You possess deep knowledge of machine learning methods, model calibration, explainability, monitoring, and model governance.
• You have hands-on experience with LLMs and generative AI solutions, including custom GPT applications.
• You have a proven track record of independently owning business-critical models throughout their full lifecycle, including validation and governance.
• You are an excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, capable of bridging business and technology teams effectively.

We are looking forward to your application and to applicants who enrich our diverse culture! Regardless of age, gender, origin and sexual identity and orientation. Severely disabled applicants will be given preference if equally qualified. This position can be full-time or part-time (min. 30h/week). DKV Mobility is looking for the best talents and knows that these are not always available on a full-time basis.

Many of our employees work part-time or in flexible working models. Please talk to us about the flexibility you need during the application process.

At DKV Mobility, we are team players - because we are only successful together! #teamofteams

How we do it? We keep adapting our products and business model to meet changing customer needs. That's how we stay mobile and master every challenge the future holds.

There are also many other good reasons to work at DKV Mobility. For example, we offer you comprehensive company health management, parent-child…