Data Scientist - Fixed Term Contract

Slater and Gordon Lawyers are a leading personal injury and class actions law firm where every member of our team has a shared passion for our clients: we are people caring for people. Our commitment to our people includes offering genuine work-life balance, with a hybrid work environment allowing them to split their time between home and the office. We recognise and reward high performance and have outstanding employee benefits including a week of shutdown leave, paid parental leave, extra-long service leave, together with various ongoing learning and professional development opportunities.

Position Overview

The Data Scientist is responsible for rectifying master data issues, testing data and NLP solutions, and supporting the engineering team to implement NLP techniques in real-time systems. The role combines data-quality expertise, advanced testing capability and practical NLP knowledge to improve the accuracy, consistency and reliability of data-driven products.

Key Accountabilities

• Investigate and rectify master data issues, including duplicates, inaccurate records, inconsistent values, missing information and broken relationships.
• Define data-quality rules, remediation approaches and controls with data owners and business stakeholders.
• Profile datasets and identify root causes of data-quality issues across source systems and integrations.
• Design and execute comprehensive testing for data pipelines, remediation processes, NLP models, APIs and real-time system integrations.
• Develop test cases, test data, validation criteria and regression test suites, and document defects and outcomes clearly.
• Apply NLP techniques such as entity extraction, classification, similarity matching and language models to improve data processing and quality.
• Work closely with engineers to translate NLP concepts into reliable, scalable and maintainable real-time implementations.
• Evaluate NLP outputs for accuracy, latency, robustness, explainability, privacy and suitability for production use.
• Coordinate priorities, decisions and remediation activities with data owners, engineers, subject-matter experts and other stakeholders.

Experience and qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in data science, computer science, statistics, mathematics, artificial intelligence or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Experience rectifying master data and data-quality issues across multiple systems or datasets.
• Experience designing and executing structured testing for data pipelines, APIs, machine learning models or real-time systems.
• Practical experience applying NLP techniques to business or operational data.
• Experience working with engineers and stakeholders to deliver production-ready data or analytics solutions.
• Experience handling sensitive information in accordance with privacy, security and governance requirements.

What next?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Slater and Gordon. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.

To be eligible for this position, you must be an Australian citizen, a permanent resident, or hold a valid visa with full and unrestricted working rights in Australia. Proof of work rights will be required as part of the Slater and Gordon application process.

Acknowledgement of Country Slater and Gordon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples today.

Diversity + Inclusion Slater and Gordon is committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity and ensures equal opportunities for all. Slater and Gordon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes. We understand that everyone has different needs. If you require reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know in your application.