Lead Data Scientist, Ukraine (offline)

Location
Remote Ukraine

Project Description
Our Client is one of the largest in UK groceries and general merchandise retailer is in the middle of transformation to technology Company in retail. As part of this exercise renovation of technology landscape taking place across Company. As a partner we support our client in this journey and help to develop from scratch new applications for various departments (Supply Chain, Product Lifecycle Management, Finance, HR etc.). Our teams are responsible for development of platform components in Agile environment together with client, based on event based Microservices architecture. As a developer you will work in team of professionals in your Country and collaborate with experts from all over the world to develop modern high loaded application in Cloud environment.

Our ideal Candidate is passioned smart individual with strong engineering background, who is ready to work and lead to success self managed team, accept challenges and take active role in their resolutions. Successor will manage product from the idea to delivery to clients, and ensure quality result brought to business. Your effort will help our client to meet their passion to satisfy the most demanded client and to become number one technology company in retail. In return you will have ability to grow your skills, extend your network and share knowledge with experts all over the world.

Key people and teams to work with:
 Members of Product team (Product Managers, Business Stakeholders, Engineers, TPMs, Data Scientists)
 Members of the Data Science and Analytics community
 Academics and external experts

Responsibilities
- Work end-to-end on Data Science developments, contributing to all aspects of the project lifecycle
- Understand difficult business problems and prototype solutions
- Analyse and link complex datasets so that they may be learned from or optimised
- Scientifically analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of different approaches to guide future development and track the value created by the team
- Build mathematical models on top of big data architectures to gain deep insights into opportunities to improve the customer experience
- Partner with technology teams to productionise developments
- Communicate complex solutions in a clear, understandable way to non-experts

Skills
Must have

- More than 8 years in NLP and machine learning
- Experience in chatbots
- Expertise in at least one technical domain (e.g. machine learning, simulation, optimisation, forecasting, NLP, econometrics etc)
- Experience with different programming languages and a high level of capability in at least one language - Python, Scala, Java, (or similar)
- Understanding of common data structures and algorithms. Understanding of time and space complexity
- Experience of leading Data Science project developments involving multiple stakeholders
- Experience of delivering high impact Data Science developments within complex organisations
- Experience of partnering with technology teams to productionize your developments and roll out at scale

Nice to have

Agile

Languages
English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Seniority
Lead