Junior Data Scientist
Job Description
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, engineering, or similar quantitative discipline 1-2 years working in a similar quantitative role
- Experience with query languages such as SQL, Hive, Spark QL
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, R
- Experience in extracting, cleaning and preparing data for modeling
- Having great communication & presentation skills
- Creative and innovative problem-solving skills
- Good team player, result oriented attitude, strong attention to detail and analytical mind
- Intellectual curiosity and a passion for data and analytics
- Strong desire to take initiative; ability to deal with ambiguity and competing objectives
- Advanced level of English
Preferred qualifications
- Solid foundation in statistics
- Experience with a consumer facing company
Responsibilities
- Work on all aspects of creating predictive intelligence including collecting requirements, establish analytics work plan, data exploration, cleansing, and preparation, identifying features, selecting algorithms, building and testing models, iteratively improving solutions
- Perform hands on data analysis to design predictive systems or improve the performance of systems.
- Collaborate with software developers to put predictive intelligence in production
- Present complex ideas and their value proposition to non-technical audience as a coherent story with clear and easy to follow conclusions
- Provide guidance to business decisions with interpreting statistics, prepare high-level presentations of data for executive review
- Collecting requirements for both new and existing products of the company
- Handle prioritization of various initiatives, and communicate with key stakeholders regarding progress