Project Description
We are looking for a Data Scientist to work with the Online and Products team. The successful candidate will be an experienced applied statistician/Data Scientist who enjoys working in a team and is ready to think creatively to find solutions and deliver value to our customers. They will join our vision of making information more insightful and more widely available.
Key Responsibilities
- Developing algorithms for efficient analysis of large, complex, structured datasets
- Working with the development and infrastructure teams to deliver this
- Making concrete contributions to insights and products
Personal attributes
- passion for big data, cloud computing, analytics, information
- good knowledge of statistics
- experience structuring data and algorithms to efficiently deliver results
- self-starter, working with small entrepreneurial unit
- undaunted by big challenges
Qualifications/Experience
- 3+ years experience
- BSc or PhD in Computer Science or Statistics
- Proven experience solving large data and analytical problems using quantitative approaches and generating actionable insights
- Experience with large datasets
- Strong experience of statistical methods, modelling, business analytics Technologies
- For offline analysis of data, we are language agnostic – a good knowledge of R is expected but alternatives may be just as acceptable
- Some knowledge of SQL