ENVIRONMENT:A fast-paced global Data Specialist seeks the expertise of a highly analytical Senior Data Scientist for a hands-on role finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You will work on Data Science R&D tasks & Machine Learning problems while familiarising themselves with the Trendscope tech stack, particularly sales to social and the knowledge graph, plus automated relevancy cleaning. The ideal candidate must possess a Masters Degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Math/Physics, etc., have a deep understanding of core Machine Learning concepts & a proven track record applying Machine Learning techniques, have worked with text data and working on a wide range of NLP problems such as Topic Modelling, Relevancy and Disambiguation, BERT/GloVe, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, pySpark, Python, Git, Unittest and [URL Removed] with time series and social data to provide creative data science solutions for the core product line.

  • Work on difficult, often cutting-edge problems such as Disambiguation, Relevancy and Forecasting.
  • Create production-ready solutions, working with Engineering to deploy solutions and productionise prototypes.
  • Mentor and support junior team members.
  • REQUIREMENTS:

    • Masters Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or other Physical Science.
    • Deep understanding of core Machine Learning Concepts.
    • A proven track record of applying Machine Learning techniques in a production context.
    • Experience working with text data.
    • Experience working with Engineering teams on optimatisation and productization of Data Science work.
    • Proven experience working on hard DS R&D problems in relevant areas i.e., NLP/Text Analytics.
    • Creative and comfortable working as part of a cross functional team and applying cutting edge data science solutions from the literature to BSD problems.
    • Technical Communication.
    • Proven track record of deploying and developing in a Big Data environment, ideally pySpark.
    • Proficient programming in Python with solid Software Development standards, including Version Control (Git), Testing (Unittest/Pytest) and virtual environments.
    • SQL and NoSQL databases including MongoDB.
    • Experience with a wide range of NLP problems such as Topic Modelling, Relevancy and Disambiguation.
    • Have worked with word embedding models such as BERT/GloVe.
    • Experience working in/managing a production code base.

    Advantageous

    • PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or other Physical Science.
    • Scala.
    • Deep Learning, specifically for Multi-horizon Time Series Forecasting.
    • Knowledge of network science. Comfortable creating and working with graphs and preforming community detection, finding connected components, eigenvector centrality, etc.
    • Databricks experience.
    • Familiarity with the AWS stack.
    • Experienced in Agile development.
    • Product-driven Data Science development.

    ATTRIBUTES:

    • Proven ability to provide thought leadership.
    • Highly creative.
    • Organised, and comfortable in an agile work environment.
    • Team player, willing to support others and engage with engineering teams.
    • Excellent people skills and great communicator.
    • Strong written communication and ability to clearly document work is essential.

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    Desired Skills:

    • Senior
    • Data
    • Scientist

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