Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist Job Description Template

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

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with internal business stakeholders, data scientists and engineers in order to identify improvement opportunities from an AI perspective;
  • You’ll be building relationships with key stakeholders from all walks of the business;
  • Constantly experiment and improve the relevancy of the recommendation/ad optimization system;
  • Identify and investigate potential improvements to our current methodologies; plan and implement agreed changes;
  • To develop and maintain a good understanding of the Machine Learning developments within the industry;
  • Cross Use Case optimisation and developing recommender systems;
  • Recommend implementation strategies to the management based on sound statistical methodology;
  • Where required, working with the Product team to identify client data science and machine learning requirements in joint product development;
  • Interacting with clients, prospecting, understanding their business needs, providing solutions and presenting results;
  • Turn low-level data into intelligible information;
  • Build advanced supervised and unsupervised machine learning models;
  • Using Big Data tools and techniques in order to build innovative solutions;
  • Build and mentor the data science team;
  • Working with large complex data sets;
  • Use various statistical methods to process and analyse client’s proprietary dataset.

Requirements:

  • High familiarity with libraries such as scikit-learn, tensorflow, keras, pandas, numpy;
  • Strong statistical modelling background;
  • Machine Learning / signal processing techniques;
  • 4+ years’ industry experience;
  • Good knowledge of SQL and shell is a plus;
  • Software Engineering background;
  • Data Visualisation;
  • 5+ years experience in Data Science Machine learning and NLP expertise;
  • Problem solve on a daily basis;
  • Bonus scheme (average is 10% paid out every 6 months);
  • Python;
  • Improve production process;
  • Applying deep learning techniques;
  • High level of experience with Python (coding test in Python is involved within interview process);
  • Mentoring junior team members or graduates.