Data Scientist
Ascent Software
- United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work as part of a multi-skilled delivery team on customer engagements
- Impact solutions and demonstrate your value to the customer
- Quickly learn and apply skills to real business challenges
- Contribute to a collective knowledge pool and gain appreciation
- Work on a variety of businesses and problems, with data of all shapes and sizes
- Be supported by the wider teams and a collective knowledge pool
- Keep up to date on the latest technologies, techniques and best practices
- Work with the latest Azure offerings and get certified
- Attend and present in high-profile conferences
- Contribute to open-source projects
- Become a trusted consultant for the customer, and go beyond a "developer" or "engineer" mindset in all engagements
- Implement data science solutions and support end-to-end pipelines
- Challenge solution design and methodology with innovative ideas
- Apply statistical rigor and computational efficiency in project delivery
- Communicate progress and challenges proactively with team and project leads
- Present work to technical and non-technical audiences
- Promote Ascent publicly via blogging, conferencing and professional social media
- Share knowledge internally
- Keep up to date with relevant technologies and current trends
- Travel for work as required
- Curious and inquisitive
- Thoughtful
- Consultative and business-minded
- Detail orientated
- Pragmatic approach to problem-solving
- Sense of responsibility
- Critical and constructive thinking
- Logical and methodical reasoning
- Communicate with clarity and purpose
- Fluent in R, Shiny
- Experienced in R package development
- Familiar functional programming practice
- Fluent in SQL (any flavour) for analysis; data modelling, management, DBA experience are desirable
- Experienced in applying some of the data science techniques to project work, including data visualisation, package development, machine learning, NLP, Shiny / Dash, optimisation, deep learning, reinforcement learning
- Some knowledge of MLOps, implementation experience in MLOps is desirable
- Daily use of git is highly desirable
- Experience with cloud platforms, Azure is desirable
- Software development experience is desirable
- Data architecture knowledge is desirable
- API design and deployment experience is desirable
- Big data (e.g. Spark) experience is desirable
- NoSQL DB experience is desirable
- 2+ years of data science experience
- Right to work in the UK and/or EU
- Azure Data Science Associate Certificate is desirable