Senior Data Scientist

An exciting opportunity to be a part of a large organisation

Your new company 

HaysTechnology are currently partnered with a well-established Client to appoint anexperienced Senior Data Scientist to a 24-month contract with potential to extend.

Your new role 

As the Senior Data Scientist, you will dive deep into hands-on coding, employing best practices to enhance data science capability and deliver tangible outcomes. This position is tailor-made for a (senior) Data Scientist with software engineering skills, with an emphasis on coding, offering the chance to make a significant difference by leveraging data science and software methods to deliver data-driven products!

The day-to-day responsibilities will also include:

• Work across the organisation to apply data science/software engineering principles and techniques (i.e., writing code and implementing algorithms to build large-scale AI/ML/DS systems) to deliver solutions.
• Successfully deliver PoC’s, Pilots and full production solutions to meet business needs.
• Problem solving to come up with hypotheses to test; and transforming these into products.
• Hnads on coding with Python & R, with extensive use of GIT and various build systems. 
• Dealing with large amounts of data, in varying formats (be it output from SQL queries, CSV dumps, JSON/XML outputs, ad-hoc programs, APIs, etc); with the ability to reshape with ease.

What you'll need to succeed 

To be successful in attaining this role, you will have: 

• > 5 years’ experience in analytical tools, processes, and practices across AI/ML/DS domains.
• Experience diving into library source code, documentation, manuals, mailing lists & Stack Overflow, to understand underlying functions & libraries in order to unpack & resolve raised issues.
• Demonstrated strong conceptual and analytical skills, able to translate complex business issues into well-structured analytics research problems, i.e., spanning from ideation to delivery.
• Experience in building large scale, end-to-end machine learning systems using a combination of big data tools (i.e., Azure ML, VMs, etc.), visualisation tools, and programming in Python, R & SQL.
• Sound communication skills to be able to engage with stakeholders from a range of backgrounds with varying levels of technical competency.

What you'll get in return 

Youwill be offered a competitive daily rate, and the opportunity to work in astunning Brisbane CBD location with excellent WFH flexibility. You will be partof an established firm that will provide a continuous pipeline of project work,driving your professional development. 

What you need to do now 

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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