For an ongoing long-term outsourcing project with an Artificial Intelligence company from United States, Techmedia is searching for energetic, proactive and motivated Senior Data Scientist to join the team.
Position: Full time
Location: Work remotely / Techmedia office in Belgrade city center
Salary: $4000 - $6000 NET per month depending on the skills/experience
JOB PURPOSE
Reporting to the company’s COO, the Data Scientist will be responsible for managing the data science team, planning projects, and building analytics models, leveraging large volumes of data across sources in a variety of forms. He/she will lead the development of AI-focused products
and projects utilizing cutting edge machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision and mathematical techniques. The Lead Data Scientist will collaborate with the leadership team to guide the product roadmap, identify opportunities, guide direction, and bring product concepts to life.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for overseeing the data science team, machine learning engineers, and big data specialists
- Teach, lead, and counsel colleagues on new techniques or solutions
- Lead data mining and collection procedures
- Collaborate with data and software engineers to enable deployment of sciences and technologies that will scale across the company’s ecosystem
- Responsible for the conception, planning, and prioritizing of data projects
- Provide support to inexperienced analysts with high-level expertise in a relevant scripting language (e.g., R, Python, Julia, etc.)
- Spot and evaluate emerging/cutting edge, open source, data science/machine learning libraries/big data platforms (e.g. XGBoost, Hugging Face, H2Oai, Spark, etc.)
- Adhere to stringent quality assurance and documentation standards using version control and code repositories (e.g., Git, Gitlab, DVC)
- Interpret and analyze data problems and guarantee data quality and integrity
- Responsible for building analytic systems and predictive models as well as experimenting with new models and techniques
- Ensure that data projects align with organizational goals
- Utilize data visualization tools (e.g. D3, Dash, Plotly) to deliver insights to stakeholders
- Guide members of the Shared Service team to ensure on-time management of critical product development milestones and contribute to the total on-time/on-budget delivery; collaboratively manage timelines and corrective action plans
- Design and develop demos using UI frameworks (e.g. Streamlit) that drive client awareness, interest and acquisition
CORE COMPETENCES
- Leadership/Judgment: Showing wisdom in making decisions and acting with a view to what is most appropriate, reasonable, timely and realistic
- AI Technical Leadership: has deep expertise and a demonstrated ability to deliver top-quality AI solutions that drive value
- Driving Positive Change: Committing the organization to significantly different ways of doing things in the service of higher levels of organizational performance
- Creative: Able to think "out of the box" about new ways to grow the business
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of data science experience; 2+ years in a leadership role
- Master’s degree in a technical discipline (data science, computer science, engineering, physics, math, etc) is required. A PhD in a relevant discipline is preferred
- Advanced working knowledge of Python
- Experienced in applying natural language processing, machine learning, conceptual modeling, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and hypothesis testing to solve data problems
- Deep understanding of common machine learning algorithms (e.g. kNN, Random Forest, Neural Networks, etc)
- Familiar with dashboard and visualization software such as Tableau, D3, or Plotly
- Experience with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Data wrangling, data cleaning and prep, dimensionality reduction; experience querying data from relational databases using SQL; experience with big data tools (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Dask) is a plus
- Experience driving deliverables for product develop team at high velocity
- Extensive experience in an Agile, iterative development environment utilizing project tracking tools such as Jira
- Able to hold teams to deadlines, coordinate launch dates, and facilitate communication between executives, designers, developers and sales teams
This job description is not exhaustive and limited to the guidelines above. All other items not enumerated are covered by the Policies and Procedures of the department/establishment, the Employee Handbook which may be revised at any date.
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