Data Scientist

Job Type: Contract
Posted: about 5 years ago
Contact: Nicholas Barwick
Discipline:
Reference: 194237_1555398368

Our client is assembling a team to build a technology platform that enables rapid generation, simulation, and analysis of development projects. We are looking for highly-motivated Data Scientist with experience in econometrics and supervised machine learning, and have an extensive track record of creating and implementing innovative solutions to complex problems.

If you have experience with financial and economic analysis using data and have developed and deployed solutions using Python, R, Matlab, Stata, and SQL, we'd love to hear from you.

To be successful in the role, you will have significant experience in applying econometrics and machine learning to various technical & functional areas.

Key Accountablities:

  • Lead the software system architecture and design to appropriately incorporate statistical analysis into the platform. Effectively communicate solutions to software engineers, customer facing and operational team
  • Actively and collaboratively plan, architect, design, develop, test, deploy and maintain key software solutions and enhancements related to data science capabilities.
  • Provide recommendations into the design of the product and platform focused on data science flow and be responsible for seeing those decisions implemented successfully.
  • Implement an elegant data architecture focusing on the data science aspects of the platform

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

  • Hands-on experience with common econometric and machine learning toolkits
  • Development experience with Python/R/Matlab etc machine learning applications/frameworks
  • 3+ years in developing and deploying algorithms into software
  • Willingness to work in a software development environment delivering high-quality implementations (code & test)
  • Excellent analytical, development, and debugging skills
  • Hands-on experience with technologies and tools such as:
    • Visual Studio
    • Postgresql, PostGIS, NoSql
    • Git, BitBucket Pipeline
    • AWS services. Athena, Glue, Lambda, RedShift
    • R, Python, TensorFlow, Statsmodels, Econometrics
    • Machine Learning
    • Data Wrangling

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