Senior Data Scientist

Build statistical models and data-driven products in Amman, using machine learning and analytics with at least five years of IT experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan analytics with business units and develop data extraction, reduction and mining from company repositories.
• Build complex statistical models and visualisations and translate findings into executive decisions and action plans.
• Deliver automated-decision and AI anomaly-detection products and monitor performance through industrialisation.
• Encourage advanced analytics adoption and co-develop business tools with specialist teams.

Requirements

• At least five years in software or IT and strong machine-learning knowledge, including k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM and decision forests.
• Data-science tools such as R, Python libraries, Weka, NumPy and MatLab; visualisation tools such as D3.js, GGplot, Qlick and Elastic.
• SQL, Hive and Pig querying, with MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL database experience.
• Applied distributions, statistical testing and regression, excellent communication and a data-oriented approach.
• Power BI and AWS, GCP or Azure experience are advantageous.

Application

• Full-time Amman role. Salary, academic qualification and deadline are not specified; apply through the original vacancy.