Francesco Orsi

Product Owner and Data scientist, science and culture enthusiast who enjoys going to the opera.

BI Data Scientist: inspire change.

As a BI data scientist, you act as the interface between business and IT. Your work helps to optimise structures and develop new products.

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My daily challenge is to recognise the potential of data and draw the right conclusions from it.

Daniele Mele

Data scientist (80%), talented chess player and amateur guitarist with a thing for numbers.

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Reducing complexity.

Your work day is shaped by important and overarching questions which have to be investigated. With the help of their high level of expertise, our BI data scientists search for and collect suitable data. You know how to analyse, evaluate, and compare complex data. You gain insights relevant to management and visualise and present these in an innovative way which befits your audience.

Showing the way.

Your affinity with data helps you to quickly recognise the needs of the specialist units and means you are enthusiastic about statistical pecularities and research projects alike. You work very closely with IT in your role. Our BI data scientists use joined-up thinking to see the big picture and the solutions they develop lay the foundation for related business decisions.

To work as a BI data scientist you must hold a university degree in a scientific discipline such as mathematics, data science, IT or physics. Ideally, you would also hold a Master’s degree. Using tools like Microsoft Power BI and SAP Analytics Cloud, you illustrate and present the complex insights you gain. This means good communication and presenting skills are important in this role. You have native-level command of German, French or Italian and possess good knowledge of another of the national languages. Knowledge of English is also useful in your day-to-day work in this field.

Working independently and professionally, you develop prototypes using SQL, Python and/or R. Experience with frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, TensorFlow or PyTorch and knowledge of technologies like SAP HANA, OpenShift, Docker or Azure/AWS will also help you to excel in your day-to-day work as a BI data scientist.

BI data scientists can pursue further personal development at SBB, for example by assuming a specialist management role, or becoming an expert in a specialist area.

We promote modern ways of working. Mobile working means being able to work outside the SBB workplace. You can work at home, on the move, when visiting customers or elsewhere within and outside of SBB. As a BI data scientist, you can organise your work commitments and your free time more flexibly thanks to Work Smart. You manage your time independently and keep to contracted hours.

Independence is essential to the work of a BI data scientist. You are proactive in seeking out opportunities to exchange ideas with stakeholders, specialists and IT so as to coordinate standards or enrich your innovations with additional knowledge. You are keen to take on responsibility, whether that relates to time, budgeting or the scope of your work, and feel at home in a management position. You are quick to recognise areas where there is room for manoeuvre and use it in a goal-oriented manner.

In your day-to-day work you get to know the current needs of Switzerland’s largest mobility company. You use your initiative and are proactive in finding new topics to help the company progress. In doing so, you help to anticipate the challenges SBB will face in the future, and get to work on tomorrow’s solutions today. And that’s why you achieve great things.