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Job vacancy Data Scientist
Announced
13 March, 2024
Job Type
Temporary / Contract
Job Status
Full Time
Job Title
Data Scientist
Job Location
Central - Copperbelt - Eastern - Luapula - Lusaka - Muchinga - North-Western - Northern - Southern - Western - International
Job Presentation
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement advanced prescriptive content recommendation models using various statistical, machine learning, and data mining techniques.
- Perform data preprocessing tasks such as cleansing, discretization, imputation, and feature engineering to ensure high-quality inputs for model building.
- Access and manipulate big data, as well as both relational and non-relational data sources, to acquire data at the necessary granularity for specific analytical objectives.
- Work closely with engineering teams to deploy real-time and automated batch data science solutions in a production environment.
- Actively contribute to improving the machine learning lifecycle infrastructure and codebase, participating fully in team activities and collaborative efforts.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
- Proven experience in applying advanced data science algorithms such as neural networks, SVM, random forests, gradient boosting machines, k-means++, deep learning, or reinforcement learning.
- Demonstrable expertise in at least three classes of advanced algorithms.
- Prior experience with live recommender systems and their implementation.
- Proficiency in deep learning frameworks, preferably TensorFlow.
- Proven track record in implementing scalable, distributed, and highly available systems on Google Cloud Platform.
- Competence with Google AI Platform/Vertex AI, Kubeflow, and Airflow.
- Strong skills in data processing with SQL, Python and PySpark.
Desired Characteristics:
- Solid understanding of the computational complexity involved in model training and inference, especially in the context of real-time and near real-time applications.
- Experience handling multi-billion record datasets and a good grasp of enterprise-level digital analytics platforms such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics.
- Familiarity with the management and analysis of large-scale video assets.
- A team player with a collaborative mindset who is eager to learn and apply new methods and tools.
- A sense of pride and ownership in your work, along with the ability to represent your team confidently to other departments.
Skills
- TensorFlow, Python, SQL
Job category : | IT, new technologies |
Industries : | IT, software engineering, Internet |
Employment type : | Fixed-term contract |
Region : | Central - Copperbelt - Eastern - Luapula - Lusaka - Muchinga - North-Western - Northern - Southern - Western - International |
Experience level : | 2 to 5 years |
Educational level : | Master |
Key Skills : | ACCESSBIG DATAPYTHONTENSORFLOWSQLBATCHNORTHERN |
Number of Position(s) : | 1 |
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Valid Till
11 May, 2024 (12 days left)
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