Lead Data Scientist

Location
Job reference DS210619_1561087909
Salary S$8500 - S$11000 per month
Consultant email wheijie.yong@experis.com.sg
EA License No. 02C3423

Responsibilities:

Using data modelling, linear regression, statistical methods and proprietary data, your role is to discover trends and provide understandings/estimates based on this data. Working closely with Product Manager, engineering team and our management team, you will be responsible for the creation and evolution of the tools and methods critical to producing quality and useful insights.


* Lead the development and testing of hypotheses across all functional areas
* Play a key role as a member of the analytics team
* Research and apply multidisciplinary techniques, findings and approaches to problems
* Design, implement and analyse algorithms which substantially impact features
* Participate in the development of prototypes and guide solutions into production
* Serve as a primary person to consult on complex data science issues, contributing key ideas

Requirements:
* Masters/PhD in computer science, stats or related field
* At least 6 years of hands on experience in core analytics & machine learning
* Experience with large scale algorithm challenges in the consumer Internet space
* Comfort working within a modern engineering environment (System architecture, Java, MySQL, cloud programming)
* Ability to script experimental solutions and use off-the-shelf statistical analysis tools (Python, R)
* Proven research background, in academic or industrial work, with an emphasis on delivering practical research that has a critical impact on multiple projects
* Awareness of business objectives and ability to apply this understanding to recommend and implement product development for difficult and complex technical issues

Octavius, Whei Jie Yong EA License No.: 02C3423 Personnel Registration No.: R1110096