Head of Data Science

  • Full-time

Company Description

Our client is a leading provider of a big data analytics platform and solutions for advanced cyber security and operational efficiencies, protecting the critical infrastructure and financial services markets against unknown threats. The company’s patented, award-winning platform automatically uncovers unknown cyber and operational threats, allowing customers to take action and avert disaster before any damage occurs.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities 

  • Manage a global team of 8 Data Scientists
  • Be the highest professional authority for DS domain cross company. Provide business knowledge leadership in order to develop solutions, both internal and external
  • Execute projects end-to-end from requirements gathering, data mining, and exploration up to implementing machine learning algorithms in our production environment
  • Build and manage technical relationships with customers and delivery partners
  • Work closely with Algo, R&D, product, and marketing teams to design, deploy and evaluate ML models and optimization algorithms.
  • Research of new data models for new products solutions and product roadmap.
  • Lead research activities under the development of the payment ecosystem such as new payment use cases, blockchains, crypto, and more.
  • Be the high professional advisor for important sales cycles, and development of new use cases and product solutions.
  • Be the center of excellence for partners and customers.
  • Manage customer and partner facing training courses on the system – usage and monitoring aspects in the Data Science domain
  • Provide product requirements input to the Product Management team

Qualifications

  • 2 + years of experience in leading a team of Data Scientists
  • 5+ years of experience as a data scientist
  • BSc in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Economics or another related field (MSc advantage
  • Experience working directly with customers. Advantage – financial customers
  • Must have Hands-on experience and knowledge of scripting languages: Python/PySpark as well as DS workflow management tools including MLflow, Airflow, etc.
  • Hands-on experience using Big Data and statistical analysis tools such as Hadoop/Spark, SQL, and Matlab.

Advantages

  • Unsupervised Learning & Anomaly Detection
  • NLP (Natural Language Processing)
  • Graph Algorithms

Additional Information

A very attractive and competitive package is offered.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.