Job Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Data Scientist to work closely with key stakeholders to understand business needs and gaps, and to deliver data science projects.
The successful candidate will provide expertise on datasets, filling gaps in Company's data coverage and meeting business objectives.
This role involves working on complex and varied datasets to seek, find, extract, transform and use data to solve business problems.
You will design, implement and maintain analytical products that are compatible with data sources and visualisations.
Running end-to-end data science execution, including scoping, building, testing, implementing, maintaining, tracking and optimising predictive models.
Preparing project documents to a high standard for a varied audience and providing support and guidance to stakeholders in the interpretation of analytical results.
Assisting in the design and implementation of principles and techniques for collecting, organising, interpreting and presenting quantifiable data, and producing statistical reports and analyses.
Contributing to good documentation practices that enable replicable processes for analysis, evaluation, monitoring and quality improvement.
Job Requirements
* Strong conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills, including a strong ability to develop, implement and optimise complex analytical and predictive models.
* Extensive knowledge of statistics, machine learning, data mining and linguistic modelling algorithms.
* Expertise across a range of programming languages and data tools, such as Python, R, C/C++ and SQL.
* Strong liaison and negotiation skills and demonstrated experience in building productive working relationships to support the sharing, collation and reporting of data.
* Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical issues into an easily understood manner.
* Strong writing skills, with the ability to translate findings from analysis to written reports, for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Location: Canberra