Data Scientist

Role Introduction

Reports to : Operations Analytics Manager

This position is responsible to:

• Deliver actionable analytics and insights and extend it as an integral component of major business change and investment programmes, including in flight operations, services deliveries, customer & loyalty management as well as sales management
• Drive a combination of mathematical rigor and innovative algorithm design to extract relevant insights from data
• Collaborate with stakeholders to build and deliver data science solutions to facilitate business transformation, with measurable impact.
• Lead individual use cases to ensure business needs are met and value delivered.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the business to help translate unstructured business questions into quantitative problems
• Provide advanced analytics support including machine learning, big data, and advanced statistical modelling across the companies’ functional areas including operations, commercial, and customer domains.
• Advise on appropriate analytical models based on available data, technology and platform
• Work with key stakeholders and partners to implement solutions
• Evaluate machine learning algorithm and models, and provide technical recommendations to business units for decision making
• Influence key stakeholders to ensure insights are used to maximise value
• Make intelligent approximations to the model if required to make it scalable and operatable
• Prototyping advance analytics and machine learning solutions and optimise iteratively for business partners
• Monitor data science products performance to ensure its business values are delivered as per designed, and initiate necessary corrective actions
• Partner with IT in productionalizing machine learning models
• Anticipate needs and lead implementation of capabilities such as data modelling, algorithms, new technology & partners
• Recommend and implement the development path of capabilities and skillsets to foster a culture of applying data & insight driven culture in decision making
• Drive knowledge sharing and improvement in analytics skills within the data science community and across Digital Streams and relevant business units
  
  

Requirements

The ideal candidate will be a strong advocate for adoption of data science and have a passion for experimentation of application of AI and uncovering business value

• Master degree (or equivalent education qualifications) in Computer Science, Econometrics, Mathematics, Operation Research, Statistics or related disciplines
• Minimal 5 years’ work experience in data science, proven track record of leveraging large amount of data to drive significant business impact
• Advanced analytical skills, experience in recommending appropriate algorithm and methodology for problem-solving and decision making, leveraging both logic and creativity
• Expert in statistical analysis tools and machine learning languages (Ideally Python) other big data tools (Spark), as well as query languages
• Experience in AWS cloud stack (SageMaker / Step Functions / Redshift / EMR / Glue / Athena)
• Experience in advanced machine learning topics (NLP / Graph NNs / Probabilistic Models) is highly preferred
• Proficiency in data visualization tools, ideally QlikSense, PowerBI
• Proficiency in analytics & query tools e.g. Alteryx
• Essential to have strong understanding in database concepts & data modelling, business intelligence disciplines & data management tools
• Sound communication skills to work with business partners of different levels and background. Be able to articulate ideas verbally and in written forms
• Solid understanding of latest analytics technology and concepts, trends of platform & tools
  
  

Personal & Application Information

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