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Data Scientist

Data Scientist (BBBH2192) Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia

Data Scientist– Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia

  • 6 month contract, high chance of extension
  • Great Daily rate
  • Some of Australia's Largest Data Sets

About the company:

One of Australia’s leading retail organisations based in Surry Hills is looking for a Data Scientist.  They will join a team that is recognised by Google and Facebook as one of the best Data Science teams in the country!

The purpose of this role is to support the Data Science team to develop, implement and optimise analytical and predictive models to deliver better product: customer targeting.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain state of the art advanced statistical and machine learning models (GLM, Random Forests, GBM, xGBoost, etc) to drive marketing strategies and tactical executions.
  • End-to-end data science execution including scoping, building, testing, implementation, maintenance, tracking and optimisation of predictive models.
  • Engage with business partners and delivery teams to ensure algorithms are delivered and implemented into production systems
  • Develop, maintain and enhance variety of customer segmentation models to uncover customer insights.
  • Interpret analysis and modelling results in a business context and provide commercially focussed recommendations to support business decisions.

 

Requirements:

  • Experience in a marketing and digital environment
  • Experience in developing class-leading algorithms to drive commercial outcomes.
  • Proven commercial experience in statistical and machine learning modelling, with experience manipulating and ‘making sense’ of big data from disparate systems.
  • Advanced working knowledge of analytical programming: SQL, SAS, R or Python.
  • Exposure to Big Data platforms, such as Hadoop and Spark.
  • Experience with SQL essential; exposure to AWS Redshift or Teradata preferred.
  • Experience in working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments

 

We have already launched a headhunt drive for this role – if you feel that this is the next step in your career, apply now!!

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