Data Scientist II, MarketCast

Data Scientist II, MarketCast

Company MarketCast
Job title Data Scientist II
Job location Reading / London, UK
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Take the lead on directing defining and implementing solutions to moderately complex client problems effectively defining clear success criteria.
  • Enable Data Scientists in your team to be successful and consistently take steps to support the growth and success of your teammates.
  • Critically evaluate where improvements are required in our ways of working – always through the perspective of business benefit to maximize the value delivered.
  • Independently manage client relationships and expectations with minimal assistance.
  • Manage reasonably large projects with multiple stakeholders.
  • Creatively think about how to address issues with models beyond basic feature engineering.
  • Deploy and evaluate results from ML models in a production environment.
  • Guide more junior members of the team in model development and deployment.
  • Use tools and languages such as Python, SQL, and Tableau for reporting and analysis on our AWS data platform
  • Work with our India-based Data Engineering team and our Sales and Market Research Teams in the US and UK

Requirements & Skills:

  • Proven track record of successfully managing client engagements independently and guiding more junior teammates to do so.
  • 5+ years’ experience of working within the Data Science domain
  • Proven experience in managing Data Science projects independently
  • In-depth knowledge of many different Statistical / ML techniques. You can confidently and independently apply algorithms that you are not familiar with.
  • The ability to deploy and evaluate results from ML models in a production environment
  • A desire to understand the why, and dig into data to understand what makes people tick
  • A Bachelor’s degree in a subject such as Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, etc. A Master’s Degree or higher is a plus.
  • Solid data analytics skills; proven proficiency with SQL, Python & Pandas is a must
  • The ability to understand business problems, draw conclusions from data and recommend actions on how best to solve these problems
  • Strong communications skills, and an ability to document requirements and work with other team members
  • Experience with TV viewing data, the TV industry, and/or Media Industry experience. This isn’t a pre-requisite, but a genuine interest is
  • A curiosity about data and enjoy building data visualizations that clearly articulate insight

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