Job Title: Lead Data Scientist Contract Duration: 12 Month Rolling Contract Work Arrangement: 2 Days Onsite Weekly Location: Leopardstown, Dublin Years of Experience Needed: Minumum 8 years + Job Description Are you an experienced lead data scientist with a passion for technological innovation and a strong sense of ownership?
The Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform offers a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the design and development of a world-class unified platform, empowering Small and Medium Enterprises globally.
We are seeking a lead data scientist to lead the development of machine learning models and business intelligence projects, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to drive data-driven decision-making across the organisation.
Responsibilities Analyse various data sources to deliver data-driven and actionable insights for small and medium-sized enterprises within the network.
Develop sophisticated multivariate models and analytic solutions, such as dashboards and machine learning models, using complex statistical and data science techniques.
Work independently to identify insights opportunities from data, even with ambiguous requirements.
Communicate with cross-functional teams and business partners to facilitate their use of insights from data.
Essential Skills Proven ability to combine, interrogate, and manipulate large data sets using big data tools such as Hadoop and Spark.
Extensive Experience with programming languages, particularly Python, and various statistics and machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn and PySpark.
Understanding of trade-offs between machine learning model validation metrics like AUC and recall to optimise model performance based on business needs.
Knowledge of version control systems such as Git.
Capability to communicate directly with business partners to translate statistical findings into business insights.
Experience with business intelligence visualisation tools like Tableau, Domo, and Power BI is highly preferred.
Experience in optimising big data ETL pipelines is preferred.
7+ years Experience Gen AI