Data scientist with engineering focus

Modis IT are recruiting a Data scientist with engineering focus for a 3 month contract (with possibility of extension) at our client located in Hoofddorp.

The Data Science team in the company drives personalized and high-value customer, advertiser and learning experiences. Our team builds world-class analytic solutions using customer data for current and new businesses and products. Our team is responsible for providing analytical solutions to business goals and collaboratively solving business decisions through data. You will leverage advanced analytical methods and machine-learning techniques to increase consumer and advertiser sales in digital media.

You will become part of a team of 4 data scientists that works closely with our in-house engineering team that focuses on the optimization and maintenance of our AWS platform. We are multidisciplinary in our backgrounds, which are in statistics, physics, computer science and econometrics.

For this specific role, a computer science background/ affinity with data engineering is preferred as you will be working with Cassandra as a back-end database and algorithm execution in real-time through web APIs for personalization experiences with focus on the company news brand. The project has large ambition when it comes to enhancing the user experience through personalization of specific elements, while respecting the mission to bring all relevant news to their user base.

Responsibilities

• Consult with senior business leaders to translate business goals into analytical use cases and models and communicate insights back to business stakeholders

• Develop statistical and predictive analytical models

• Implement the models as part of end-to-end solutions in production, either as batch jobs in big data environment (Hadoop, Spark, Amazon) or algorithms executed in real-time through web APIs.

• Create presentations and visualizations for communicating insights with the business

• Work with cross-functional business, analytics, and IT teams to deliver scalable successes, often as part of a scrum team

• Proactively identify and drive new use cases and data-driven product innovations

Job requirements/ key competences

• Master’s/PhD degree in computer science, physics, operations research, applied mathematics, econometrics, or a related field

• Experience in data engineering. We work with AWS cloud technologies, Cassandra, Redis, InfluxDB, web APIs (e.g. to serve out recommendations)

• Recent experience with: Java & Scala; ideally also with some others like R, Python, Spark and various data wrangling tools and methods

• Some experience in advanced analytics and modelling techniques such as regression, clustering, classification, natural language processing, time series methods is a pre

• Good data visualization skills, familiarity with Grafana is a pre

• Team player with good communications skills

• Dutch language is an advantage

We offer

• A pleasant workplace with young enthusiastic colleagues

• Easily accessible workplace in Hoofddorp next to the NS Station and possibilities to park

• Darts, table football, table tennis or a short walk during the break or after work

• Contribute to a number of the largest (online) brands in the Netherlands

More information

• Working days: 4 - 5 day/week

• Office location: Hoofddorp, close to train station