Data Scientist

At Evergent, we rely on insightful data to power our systems and solutions. We’re seeking an experienced data scientist to help deliver that insight to us. Our ideal team member will have the mathematical and statistical expertise you’d expect, but also a natural curiosity and creative mind that’s not so easy to find. As you mine, interpret,  clean, and apply our data, we will rely on you to ask questions, connect the dots, and uncover opportunities that lie hidden within—all with the ultimate goal of realizing the data’s full potential. You will join a team of data specialists and software engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques

  • Data mining using state-of-the-art methods

  • Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed

  • Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building machine learning and analytic systems

  • Creating Python scripts and program code

  • Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis and machine learning

  • Enabling smarter business processes and implementing analytics for meaningful insights

  • Performing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner

  • Communicating with all stakeholders

Skills and Qualifications

  • Masters or PhD degree in a field such as data science, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics

  • Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as neural networks

  • Experience with common data science toolkits, such as NumPy, MatLab, etc.

  • Great verbal and written communication skills

  • Experience with data visualisation tools, such as D3.js, Tableau, etc.

  • Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL, Apache Hive, etc.

  • Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase

  • Good understanding of probability, statistics and machine learning related mathematics

  • Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.

  • Good Python scripting and programming skills 

  • Data-oriented personality

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