Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Dublin, Ireland

Our client is continuing to expand their organization and are now recruiting a Data Scientist who is passionate about their craft.

The Data Scientist will be directly involved in the application of statistics, machine learning, and analytic approaches to answer challenging business questions. This work will help businesses across the enterprise solve critical business problems, uncover new business opportunities, and turn their large volumes of data into valuable, actionable insights.

Responsibilities
 

• Demonstrate exceptional impact in delivering multi-disciplinary projects in the Data Science Team
• Designing and training models, integrating data from disparate systems, cleaning data.
• Hands on experience of working with Python and/or R and associated tools/IDE’s (e.g. TensorFlow, scikit-learn, numpy, pandas)
• Derive, interpret and effectively deliver the results of data analysis using visualization techniques, tools, custom applications, or by narrating stories about the solutions to business problems
• Understand traditional and new data analysis methods that can build statistical models and discover patterns in data
• Work with business stakeholders and engineering teams, ask the right questions to create high quality solutions that solve end-user problems.
• Utilize a range of techniques in artificial intelligence
• Provide work estimates and participate in design and implementation reviews

Requirements

• Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, engineering, physics or an equivalent field
• 2-4+ years’ of progressive experience in developing and designing technology solutions
• Minimum of 2 years of practical data science experience in the application of artificial intelligence, statistics, big data techniques and/or other analytics approaches
• Hands-on experience of Python, R and/or similar programming languages
• Experience designing and training models, integrating data from disparate systems, and cleaning data
• Experience in the use of data visualization tools
• Basic understanding of SQL and/or Hive (or similar language) to perform ad hoc queries of large datasets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to effectively explain technical concepts