Data Scientist

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FIRESOFT Consulting is a multi-award winning consultancy having been recognised across Australia for excellence in small business and one of Australia's coolest places to work. Our people love working here and that passion really shines through when working with you. We're obsessed with shaking things up a bit to make working with a consultancy enjoyable, valuable and specifically tailored to YOU! We understand it can be stressful and challenging while trying to find a new job or build a team so we're here to be open, honest and transparent through the process; to educate you and support you as much as possible to ensure you're kicking goals - whatever those may be!

Our team plays in the following verticals (contract and permanent) : DevOps | Business Intelligence | Big Data | Analytics | Infrastructure | Engineering | Digital; iOS, Android, Front End Development, Back End Development, UX, UI, Research | Project Management | Change Management | AdOps | Service Delivery |

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About the Company:

One of Australia’s leading retail organisations, based in Surry Hills is undergoing a huge BI transformation project and are looking for driven Data Scientist to become a key member of their Advanced Modelling Team.

About The Role:

The purpose of this role is to support the Advanced Modelling Team to develop, implement and optimise analytical and predictive models to deliver better product,customer targeting to increase effectiveness of campaigns. It will be your job to:

• Work closely with key stakeholders to understand business questions and execute data science projects that deliver business solution.
• Develop and maintain state of the art advanced statistical and machine learning models (GLM,
• Random Forests, GBM, xGBoost, etc) to drive marketing strategies and tactical executions.
• Responsible for the end-to-end data science execution including scoping, building, testing implementation, maintenance, tracking and optimisation of predictive models.
• Responsible for complete and accurate documentation of all development.
• Engage with business partners and delivery teams to ensure algorithms are delivered and implemented into production systems
• Develop, maintain and enhance variety of customer segmentation models to uncover customer insights.
• Interpret analysis and modelling results in a business context and provide commercially focused recommendations to support business decisions.
• Maintain and enhance the modelling data mart to ensure efficient and accurate modelling process.
• Internal satisfaction benchmark from key stakeholders.

What you need to succeed:

• 7 years’ experience developing predictive models in commercial environments, preferably exposure to Sales and Marketing.
• Proven commercial experience in statistical and machine learning modelling, with experience
• manipulating and ‘making sense’ of big data from disparate systems.
• Advanced working knowledge of analytical programming: SQL, SAS, R or Python.
• Exposure to Big Data platforms, such as Hadoop and Spark.
• Experience with SQL essential; exposure to AWS Redshift or Teradata preferred.
• Experience in working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience in leading and mentoring teams of data scientists.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise, analyse and disseminate significant

We've already launched a global headhunt drive for this role - if you feel this aligns, please apply immediately! We have 1 contract and 1 permanent opportunity available!

To Your Success!