Graduate Data Scientist

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

**Role description**:
Our Digital Advisory team is excited to grow the team. We are focused on delivering digital transformation for our clients, putting digital and data analytics to work to create competitive IT advantage. We do this by integrating lean principles, design thinking, advance analytics and digital technologies with our domain and industry expertise to deliver disruptive business outcomes - an approach we call Digital transformation. We deliver value to our clients in two ways - through digital-led, domain-enabled solutions that drive innovation, and through intelligent operations enabled by digital that design, transform, and run clients’ operations.

The role sits within our global business area Resilience. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

**Role accountabilities**:

- Assisting in data extraction from multiple sources, including PDFs, images, and databases.
- Supporting optical character recognition processes for digitizing data from images.
- Assisting in understanding data through natural language processing.
- Contributing to the development of statistical models to support business decisions and monitoring their performance.
- Collaborating with business domain experts to derive business value drivers.
- Documenting model design choices, algorithm selection processes, and dependencies.
- Collaborating effectively in cross-functional teams within the CoE and the organization at large.
- Proactively seeking opportunities to contribute beyond assigned tasks.

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- **Technical Responsibilities**:

- Proficiency in Python, with a focus on developing foundational skills.
- Exposure to NLP and image processing concepts.
- Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
- Basic understanding of Azure deployments.
- Aptitude for OCR, ML model training, and transfer learning.
- Willingness to work with unstructured data formats such as PDFs, DOCX, and images.
- Familiarity with data science best practices and the ML lifecycle.
- **Tool Exposure**:Basic understanding of Power BI, KNIME, Git, Azure, Python, and R programming.
- **Data mining, cleaning and engineering**:Assisting in identifying and merging relevant data sources, testing data quality, and resolving data inconsistencies.
- **Visualization**:Supporting the visualization of data and modeling results using standard libraries.
- **Data Analysis**: Assisting in executing analyses against business requirements using appropriate tools and technologies.
- **Software Development**: Contributing to the development of reusable, version-controlled code under the guidance of senior team members.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.