Quantitative Risk Analyst/ Data scientist/ Statistician
ForteBank
500,000 to 700,000 KZT NET per month
Astana / Office
ForteBank is one of Kazakhstan’s largest banks
Responsibilities:
• Conduct independent validation of credit risk, financial risk, stress-testing, statistical and ML models.
• Assess model methodology, assumptions, data quality, implementation and performance
• Develop benchmarks models
• Perform backtesting, sensitivity and stability analysis
• Identify, assess and monitor model risks
Requirements:
• Statistics and econometrics, including probability distributions, hypothesis testing, regression analysis and time-series methods.
• ML (decision trees, gradient boosting)
• Model validation metrics (discrimination, calibration, stability)
• Python or R
• Bachelor’s or master’s in statistics, mathematics, economics, DS, CS, or related
Optional requirements:
• Experience with credit risk models
• Knowledge of banking risk-management and model-development processes
• English
Data Engineer
Digital Development Center of National Bank of Kazakhstan
850,000 to 1,000,000 KZT NET per month
Astana / Office
Building a data platform in the financial domain.
Responsibilities:
• Design and develop ETL/ELT pipelines
• Build data marts and optimize SQL
• Setup data access and integrations
• Manage pipelines in Airflow
• Maintain data governance and quality
Requirements:
• Confident in Python and SQL
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines
• Understanding of data modeling and DWH
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL)
• Understanding of Git, CI/CD, and Docker
Optional requirements:
• Federated engines (Trino / Presto)
• Data catalogs and data lineage (OpenMetadata / DataHub)
• Basic understanding of LLM/RAG
Product/Data Analyst
Kolesa Group
1,300,000 to 1,700,000 KZT NET per month
Almaty / Office (Hybrid) / Support Relocation
Kolesa Group is an international IT company. Krisha.kz is part of Kolesa Group, offering products for 13.5 million users.
Responsibilities:
• Analyze product metrics to influence decisions
• Collaborate with business on strategy
• Conduct and evaluate experiments
• Identify insights in data and form hypotheses
• Visualize data and draw conclusions
Requirements:
• SQL
• Python
• product analytics experience
• understanding of metrics and business context
• experience with experiments (A/B, causal)
Optional requirements:
• Google BigQuery / cloud DWH
• Power BI
• Airflow / ETL
Middle Data-Scientist / Risk Modelist
ForteBank
600,000 to 900,000 KZT NET per month
Astana / Office
ForteBank is one of the leading banks in Kazakhstan.
Responsibilities:
• Development, maintenance and monitoring of risk models for IFRS 9 provisioning processes: PD, LGD, macro-models
• Participation in the development of financial and operational risk models
• Monthly calculation of provisions for the credit portfolio
• Data analysis, preparation of analytical reports and handling of ad-hoc requests
• Participation in audit and regulatory reviews, including AQR and supervisory stress testing (НСТ)
Requirements:
• higher education in mathematics, statistics, economics, finance, IT or related fields
• at least 1 year of experience in risks in the banking sector or Big4
• understanding of credit risk, provisioning and banking products
• strong knowledge of Excel
• experience with Python and/or R
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Kazakhtelecom JSC
1,600,000 to 2,400,000 KZT NET per month
Astana / Remote
Leading telecommunications company in Kazakhstan. AI solutions for Kazakhtelecom's Digital Office.
Responsibilities:
• Design and build an LLM-based chatbot
• Deploy and maintain AI systems
• Select and integrate foundation models
• Develop RAG pipelines and chatbot APIs
• Optimize inference and response quality
Requirements:
• 4+ years in AI/ML systems
• Python, PyTorch, Transformers; LLMs and NLP
• RAG architectures and vector databases
• Production services and APIs
• Docker and cloud infrastructure
Optional:
• Open-source LLMs; LangChain or similar
• GPU inference optimization
• ML/AI platform design or technical project leadership
Tech Lead
MDiet
3,000 to 4,000 USD Gross per month
Astana / Office / Support Relocation
HealthTech startup building an AI platform for the U.S. healthcare market to reduce hospital readmissions.
Responsibilities:
• Lead architecture and backend development (Go, Java)
• Design scalable, resilient distributed systems
• Integrate LLMs, AI agents, RAG and inference services
• Build event-driven workflows and platform infrastructure
• Drive engineering standards, DevOps and security practices
Requirements:
• 5–6+ years of software engineering experience
• Tech Lead or Senior Backend background
• Strong system design expertise
• Hands-on experience with Go and/or Java
• Understanding of AI/LLM architectures
Data Scientist (Middle)
National Testing Center (NTC)
700,000 to 1,000,000 KZT Gross per month
Astana / Office
NTC is focused on educational assessment systems
Responsibilities:
• Develop AI solutions for educational systems
• Design NLP models for text understanding/generation
• Build models for analyzing structured/unstructured responses
• Develop automated evaluation pipelines
• Experiment with LLMs, fine-tuning and prompts