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.