Description
For our client, a leading Swedish financial services company, we are currently looking for a skilled Data Scientist for initial 6 month contract opportunity (strong chance of extensions) based on site close to Stockholm.
Your key responsibilities:
The Data Scientist will be tasked with unlocking value contained in large/semi-structured data across the business.
- Design algorithms, build models, and prototype solutions for multiple projects and stakeholders
- Work closely with an engineering team to translate prototypes into high quality production solutions
- Use machine learning and large-scale data mining techniques to discover and identify actionable patterns in data and develop hypotheses and models
- Design hypothesis tests, oversee execution, and perform rigorous statistical evaluation of the results to produce actionable insights
- Manage stakeholders and guide them in unlocking the value in their data
Your skills:
- Solid experience as a Research Scientist with an advanced degree
- Strong background in statistics and machine learning theory
- Strong working knowledge of data mining algorithms including decision trees, probability networks, association rules, clustering, regression, and artificial neural networks
- Hands-on experience with Hadoop, Hive
- Experienced in Apache Spark, and ideally familiar with Google Cloud Platform
- Demonstrated ability to build prototype software using any modern programming language such as Scala, Java, C++, Python, etc
- Demonstrated working knowledge of statistical analysis using R, Python, etc.
- Ability to map business needs to engineering systems
- Outstanding problem-solving skills
- Meticulous and thorough, with a healthy respect for quality & standards
If you feel like this role is a great fit for you please apply below and one of our consultants will call you to discuss.
ITHR Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. ITHR Group is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.