Description
*Secure Government Programme.*
My client, a Central Government Department seeks Data scientists to support on a critical Government programme.
As a senior data scientist, you will be responsible for the data science team's development, testing and production of machine learning and Al models.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify data quality issues with existing data, and develop methods to correct, enhance and improve our existing data.
- ll. Develop pipelines and models to transform data held in Legacy Oracle systems to new cloud-based databases.
- Ill. Develop Al and deep learning solutions to automatically extract text
- (handwriting and typed) from different types of certificates.
- The contractor will take a leading role in the Data Cleansing aspects of the Scanning and Transcription programme.
- providing essential skills and expertise to advise effectively on the data cleansing exercise and will review and advise on aspects of Machine Learning (ML) and Al work done by the appointed suppliers as it is imperative that we develop our own base-line solution using various Al and deep-learning methods
Experience and skills required
- Experience writing high quality production-grade Python code, using a range of libraries and frameworks: Pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch, OpenCV, Pydantic etc.
- Experience with Oracle database and/or PostgreSQL. Being able to understand and write SQL queries to extract and manipulate data from existing and new relational (SQL) data stores is a key requirement.
- Experience using AWS cloud technologies and ecosystem including: S3, lambda functions, AWSTextract, CodeCommit, Cloud9, SageMaker etc.
- Proven experience in a range of Al and data science fields: data wrangling, data visualisation, natural language processing, computer vision, deep learning, and statistical inference.
- Experience of code reviews, agile development, version control (Git), unit tests and continuous integration.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Project management experience.
Please don't hesitate to submit your application if you have the skills and experience required.