Data Scientist / Consultancy
An opportunity to work with some of the strongest talent in the Australian data analytics market to help shape the development of this growing team.
Summary about this job
Analysis & Reporting
Company: Bluefin Resources Pty Limited
Location: Sydney
Work type: Full Time
Salary: $140k - $160k p.a. + super + bonus
Phone: +61-7-7458-8426
Fax: +61-2-1117-4487
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Detail information about job Data Scientist / Consultancy . Terms and conditions vacancy
Our client is seeking a Data Scientist with a strong academic background and impressive commercial experience in advanced data analytics to join a team of top tier talent focused on driving forward the growth of data driven business decision making.
The Data Scientist will be part of a growing data analytics function with global reach and exciting and diverse projects that will be pivotal in harnessing advanced analytics capability for this truly dynamic organisation.
This is an opportunity to work with some of the strongest talent in the Australian data analytics market in order to help shape the development of this rapidly growing team.
You will be responsible for:
- Addressing diverse and complex business problems with innovative data science and modelling techniques (machine learning; decision trees, neural networks, random forest gradient boosting etc)
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders and the wider global teams
- Applying text mining in order to highlight trends and correlations
- Data mining and cleansing of unstructured and structured data
- Building predictive models from scratch in R, Python, SQL
- Presentation of insights to support and drive strategic decision making
In order to be considered for this role you must already have gained relevant experience in a role that is responsible for building predictive models from scratch in a commercial environment. Candidates need to be able to demonstrate what business impact and change that their analytical and modelling skills have had.
Essential criteria is as follows:
- Bachelor/Masters/PhD in a relevant discipline; ideally Mathematics/Stats/Data Science/Econometrics/Engineering
- A minimum of 3 years relevant experience in a commercial environment working with large data sets
- Candidates with a background in consulting are highly desirable
- Advanced technical skills in R are essential; additional languages highly advantageous
- Demonstrated predictive modelling experience, and ability to discuss how many models you have built, from scratch, for what business purpose and what techniques were applied
- Very strong communication skills - candidates must be articulate and have experience dealing with internal or external clients on a regular basis
- Naturally curious, problem solving
- Drive and ambition; there is huge opportunity within this role
Please apply on line or for more information, please contact Marie Thow at Bluefin Resources on 02 9270 2640
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