Senior Data Science Manager

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3 months ago
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If you're a Senior Data Science Manager looking for a new challenge then this role is for you.


Key Responsibilities:


  • To undertake complex analytical processes taking structured and unstructured data, cleaning and processing it to inform and support efficiency and growth initiatives – driving value in pricing models and across all business areas
  • To design, develop and deploy predictive and prescriptive models using advanced machine learning, underpinned by developing accuracy and assurance tools
  • Focussed on adding value through modelling future business data requirements and identifying and quantifying data value
  • To manage and coach a small team


Key Requirements:


  • Ability to code in multiple languages but with extensive experience in Python and SQL. Experience with R, Hadoop, Spark, NLP(TK) is desirable.
  • Advanced machine learning capability, including:

- Programming: data structures (stacks, queues, multi-dimensional arrays, trees, graphs, etc.), algorithms (searching, sorting, optimization, dynamic programming, etc.), computability and complexity (P vs. NP, NP-complete problems, big-O notation, approximate algorithms, etc.)

- Data modelling: finding useful patterns (correlations, clusters, eigenvectors, etc.) and/or predicting properties of previously unseen instances (classification, regression, anomaly detection, etc.)

- Model evaluation: e.g. validation accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, MCC, MAE, MAPE, RMSE, PCC2

- Application of ML algorithms and libraries: identification of a suitable model (e.g. decision tree, nearest neighbour, neural network, SVM, etc.), selecting a learning procedure to fit the data (e.g. linear regression, gradient descent, genetic algorithms, bagging, boosting), controlling for bias and variance, overfitting and underfitting, missing data, data leakage, among others

  • Advanced mathematical knowledge, including:

- Basis of algebra: matrices and linear algebra, algebra of sets

- Probability: theories (conditional probability, Bayes rule, likelihood, independence) and techniques (Naive Bayes, Gaussian Mixture Models, Hidden Markov Models)

- Statistics: (descriptive: mean, median, range, SD, var, analysis of valriance: ANOVA, MANOVA, ANCOVA, MANCOVA); Multiple regression, time-series, cross-sectional; Multivariate techniques: PCA and factor analysis)


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