Lead Data Scientist

Lead Data Scientist Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Lead Data Scientist to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Mentor and lead a small team;
  • Create advanced data science applications to be productionised and used throughout the business;
  • Engage with business stakeholders (including non-technical individuals);
  • Build a variety of recommender systems using reinforced learning;
  • The successful candidate will be able to communicate with different stakeholders at different organizational levels;
  • Responsible for delivering regular, timely and actionable data insight and providing detailed analysis;
  • Solve business problems, determining patterns and insights within structured and unstructured data, coming up with analytics strategies and solutions;
  • Applying machine learning strategy to provide insights;
  • Providing input to carry out the Data Science needs within the company;
  • Providing commercially viable applications using deep learning techniques;
  • Deploy, implement and maintain Machine Learning models;
  • Perform duties such as collecting, parsing, tagging, analyzing, mapping, managing, and visualizing large sets of data;
  • You will be given the autonomy to develop new ideas from scratch, utilising previous data development experience to add vale to the analytics team;
  • Experiment, train and deploy machine learning models at scale.

Requirements:

  • Python or R;
  • FS/Banking background highly desirable;
  • Understanding and experience of modelling techniques;
  • Use Deep Learning frameworks;
  • Understanding customers needs through AI;
  • Creating models to analyse interactions;
  • Good understanding of probability and hypothesis testing;
  • Be an expert in programming with SQL and Python or R with an extensive history of doing so in previous roles;
  • Very comfortable with the fundamentals of a wide range of machine learning techniques;
  • Highly skilled programming expertise in Python and/or R;
  • SME around statistical modelling & machine learning learning techniques;
  • Strong knowledge of programming methodologies (Python or R);
  • Quantitative background: machine learning, data analysis, optimization, statistics;
  • Good working knowledge of programming in Python and/or R and the ability to write readable, efficient code;
  • MSc or PhD degree in a quantitative discipline such as Maths, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar.