Data Scientists - 4 X Fixed Term Contracts
The Company
A reputed and well recognised Telco Company's in Australia, who are committed to being a great place to work. They have brand new opportunities in their Advanced Analytics chapter - 1 to 2 years Fixed Term Contracts - 4 X Data Scientist roles - mix of mid to senior level and individual contributors.
About the Role
1 -2 years Fixed Term Contracts with strong potential to turn perm!
As a passionate Data Scientist you'll leverage your strong analytical skills to identify, prioritize, develop and undertake a range of advanced analytical and machine learning activities working on the company's automated personalization platform and extensive data assets to solve complex business problems.
This is a business facing role and you need to have good communication & storytelling skills with a value-driven mindset
and need to be a problem solver and adaptive learner!
Responsibilities
1. Identify opportunities where analytics can help to address a business issue and determine which analytics approaches will deliver the best solution for the business.
2. Be a trusted advisor to the business, cultivating relationships with key stakeholders and explaining complex technical concepts in easy to understand ways.
3. Plan and implement data science projects to develop and experiment with new data analytic approaches and solutions.
4. Apply a creative use of algorithms to formulate hypotheses, forecast probabilities and deliver actionable recommendations.
5. Develop advanced statistical modelling tools, techniques and methodologies to resolve complex problems and facilitate ongoing data research activities for the enterprise.
Requirements
6. 4-7+ years of experience in commercial environments applying innovative machine learning models and analytics techniques, such as data mining, predictive analytics, AI/ML experimentation design, statistical inference, segmentation/ propensity modeling, reinforcement learning (e.g. multi-armed bandits).
7. Rigorous applier of scientific methodologies to shape experiment design.
8. Experience in working in a closed-feedback-loop machine learning environment or in driving analytics in a customer loyalty environment would be advantageous.
9. Experienced user of SQL, Python in a data science environment developing production level code. Experience of AWS Sagemaker useful.
10. Openness to new ways of thinking and excited about pushing the technical boundaries.
11. Commercial acumen with good stakeholder engagement skills.
12. Postgraduate degree in STEM field such as Data Science, Statistics or Maths.
This is a transformational and fully agile business, growing leaps and bounds and investing in significant systems, tech, and people. Flexible working - max 2 days in the office, rest from home. You will get to work with some of the best analytical minds and will have the support of world class technologies to craft products that customers will love!