Senior Data Scientist (NLP & ML)

At Uni Systems, we are working towards turning digital visions into reality. We are continuously growing and we are looking for a Senior Data Scientist (NLP & ML) to join our UniQue team.

What will you be doing in this role?

• Collect business requirement and develop advanced data mining solutions or identify, assess and deploy relevant existing data mining, machine learning and business intelligence solutions.
• Specification and design of presentation interfaces with optimal usability/user experience.
• Development and maintenance of software applications in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Identify, collect, convert and update different data types/sets in several locations (e.g. ETL).
• Produce data models according to specific problems statements.
• Scripting and programming.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of the analytics architecture and its solution stack (including performance aspects, physical design, capacity dimensions).
• Write the different documentation associated with the tasks and liaise with other project teams as necessary to address cross-project interdependencies.

What do you need to succeed in this position?

• Master's degree in IT field with minimum 13 years of relevant experience (or Bachelor's degree with minimum 17 years of relevant experience.
• At least 5 years of experience with machine learning and Natural Language Processing techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, Neural Network, and/or artificial intelligence frameworks.
• At least 5 years experience with Python, Perl, Matlab, R and its NLP/ML libraries (SpaCy, NLTK, scikit-learn, pandas).
• Minimum 2 years of Data Management and ETL processes and tools (i.e. Talend Open Studio).
• At least 2 years with business intelligence tools (Tableau, SAS, SAP, GoodData).
• Minimum 2 years of experience with SQL tooling (NoSQL DB, MongoDB, Hadoop, SQL) and Cloud (AWS, Azure).
• At least 2 years experience with Linux, Unix and Bash.
• Proficient in continuous code delivery and unit testing.
• At least 2 years experience of natural language processing systems lifecycle and agile software development methodologies.
• Good knowledge of quality assurance and quality control for machine translation (MT) and experience with MT quality procedures, testing methodologies and tools, such as automatic quality metrics (BLEU scores and similar) and human evaluation of MT quality.
• Knowledge of data visualisation tools, such as D3.js, GGplot.
• Knowledge in Database Mining systems and in Big Data technologies.
• Knowledge in one of the following areas: predictive (forecasting, recommendation), prescriptive (simulation), sentiment analysis, topic detection, plagiarism detection, trends/anomalies detection in datasets, recommendation systems.

At Uni Systems, we are providing equal employment opportunities and banning any form of discrimination on grounds of gender, religion, race, color, nationality, disability, social class, political beliefs, age, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristics. Take a look at our Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Policy for more information.