Senior Data Scientist

SUMMARY:

Our Client is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, to join their dynamic team and experience the very latest in technology and innovation.

POSITION INFO:

Purpose:

The successful Data Scientist will be responsible for seeking out data of any type, correlate it with other types of data to extract insights and value out of it. Supported closely by the DataOps Team you will research better ways to store, transform, aggregate and query data.

This team will analyse this data to obtain a better understanding of how our business is performing, utilize machine learning and AI to automate certain processes ,using coding, statistical analysis, data analysis, visualization and modelling.

Familiarly required with statistical tests, distributions, maximum likelihood estimators, predictions, trends etc. This will also be the case for machine learning, but one of the more important aspects of your statistics knowledge will be understanding data analysis, conclusions and the experiments conducted.

Visualizing and communicating data findings is also incredibly important as well as making data-driven decisions. It will be important to be able to clearly communicate and describe your findings, both technical and non-technical. It can be immensely helpful to be familiar with data visualization tools like SSRS, GGPlot , Seaborn, PowerBI, Excel, Tableau, Kibana and Grafana to name a few.Ultimately, you should utilize data to provide suggestions on how to optimize any part of our value chain and in turn increase revenue or reduce operational costs.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

• Statistical and Data analysis
• Interact with Technology teams to understand sources of data, challenges around interpretation of data and providing guidance around the data we should log in our systems to maximize correlation and value.
• Collaboration with product management and business leaders to understand current challenges and needs.
• Collect data from external sources to enhance our understanding of the changes in our data trends.
• Providing direction to the DataOps team around data needs, prioritizing sources and defining schema and performance requirements.
• Investigate tools for transformation of data into usable formats depending on the use case, paying special attention to real-time vs batch data.
• Research and Development of new data analysis technologies and validating their value within our environment.
• Provisioning of Data Visualizations tools to clearly communicate findings and enable some self-service functionality where suited.
• Provide easy to consume endpoints to enable other technology teams to consume data findings and utilize them in other systems.
• Maintain documentation on all work conducted and a service catalogue of the service offered include SLA’s.
• Predictive and classification models using supervised and unsupervised learning
• Explain and breakdown complex mathematical/statistical concepts and correlate the effects thereof to real world scenarios in the business

Essential Criteria:

• 5 Years proven experience as a Data Scientist
• A graduate degree in a relevant discipline (Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Mathematical Statistics or similar )
• A sound understanding of relational and non-relational databases
• Experience in writing SQL, R, Python or related languages
• Superior applied excel knowledge
• Exposure to or interest in Big Data technologies or working with large datasets.
• Experience in or exposure to analytical research/methodologies
• Business interpretation of decision support data
• Experience in ElasticSearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Spark and other data pipeline tools.
• Experience in Machine Learning tools not limited to Elastic Search ML and MS ML Server.
• Experience in AI tools not limited to TensorFlow
• Exposure to large data processing system design including storage, networking, CPU and GPU processing
• Experience with deep learning/neural networks
• Exposure to cloud technologies e.g. Azure, AWS

Desirable Criteria:

• A postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline (Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Mathematical Statistics or similar )
• Very strong maths and stats experience/skills
• Strong client interaction skills
• Experience in financial analysis

Person Specifications:

• Adaptability
• Building Relationships
• Business Awareness
• Customer Focus
• Continuous Renewal
• Enterprise Innovation
• Gaining Commitment
• Initiating Action
• Planning & Organizing
• Stress Tolerance
• Technical Knowledge
• Thinking Skills

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