Senior Data Scientist

Your Day to Day:

• Understanding the data which our clients provide to us;
• Cleaning that data and validating that it is correct;
• Preprocessing the data, usually by using a mixture of shell scripts and a programming language such as Python, Java, Scala, etc
• Iteratively computing features and tuning parameters to improve the quality of the model;
• Communicating your findings to the project manager and assisting him/her in decision making on the Data Science part of the project;
• Work together with key stakeholders (data scientists, engineers, risk managers) from our clients;
• Work with other parts of the organization (Product, Research, etc.) to improve processes, best practices and tooling.

You Have & You Know-how:

• MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics or related field;
• Proficient in Machine Learning (training and testing, avoiding overfit, etc.);
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop and related;
• Proficiency in bash, Python and either Java or Scala;
• Knowledge of resource monitoring and runtime optimization (both at JVM and OS level);
• Knowledge of statistics or data visualization is a plus;
• Knowledge of tree based algorithms (Random Forests, XGBoost, LGBM) is a plus;
• Knowledge of Deep Learning algorithms is a plus;
• Ability to communicate your findings in a clear way.