Head of Data Science
Job Description:
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Planning data projects
- Building analytic systems and predictive models
- Managing a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers and big data specialists
- Lead data mining and collection procedures
- Ensure data quality and integrity
- Interpret and analyze data problems
- Conceive, plan and prioritize data projects
- Build analytic systems and predictive models
- Test performance of data-driven products
- Visualize data and create reports
- Experiment with new models and techniques
- Align data projects with organizational goals
· Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
· Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
· Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
· Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
· Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
· Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
· Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Proven 8 years experience as a Data Scientist or similar role
- Solid understanding of machine learning
- Knowledge of data management and visualization techniques
- A knack for statistical analysis and predictive modeling
- Good knowledge of R, Python and MATLAB
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Strong organizational and leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills
- A business mindset
- Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or similar field
· Technical expertise regarding data models, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Database Design Development, Data Mining and Segmentation Techniques is a must.
· Strong knowledge and experience with reporting packages (Business objects, etc) database (SQL), programming (XML, Javascript, ETL Frameworks)
· Knowledges of statistic and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, SPSS etc)
Knowledge of P2P or aggregatorRequired Skills:
Objects ETL Computer Vision Data Collection Segmentation NoSQL Data Management Database Design Collection Features Deep Learning Data Science Mining Big Data Data Mining Analysis SPSS Matlab Engineers R Statistics Mathematics Machine Learning Excel Databases Computer Science XML reporting Programming Python Leadership Communication SQL JavaScript Science Design Planning Business Management