Senior Analytics Specialist

Job description / Role

Senior Analytics Specialist (Shanghai or Singapore)

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES
• Provide data science services to Firmcase teams and clients worldwide. You will work with case teams to assess client demands and suggest data science methods that provide practical, value-added answers to the client and case teams.
• Develop solutions that bring critical insights to wide scale of different problems such as targeting customers and segmenting markets, product design, marketing optimization, demand forecasting and brand valuation, profit and price analyses, and fraud detection.
• Develop, prototype and test machine learning algorithms on data sets that can range from a few data points to billions.
• Employ a range of techniques including decision trees, random forests, gradient boosting, clustering, Bayesian methods, neural nets and deep learning technicques.
• Where appropriate, work with our clients to deploy solutions into production, including architecting and implementing production data engineering/analytics pipelines
• Prepare various sources of data using data wrangling methods in Python, Spark, Hadoop and/or SQL leveraging infrastructure including Cloud computing solutions and relational database environments
• Keep abreast of new and current machine learning and data wrangling techniques.
• Where appropriate, train other team members to support the use of data analytics tools and to expand the use of machine learning within the organization.
• Combine domain expertise to perform feature engineering

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with data science and statistical analysis in a business, marketing science or social science environment
• A Masters’ Degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Astrophysics or related field
• Strong background in Linear Algebra, Statistics and Numerical Mathematics.
• Proficiency in SQL is required, and familiarity with NoSQL data stores is a plus
• Proficiency in either Python with numpy, pandas or Scala/Java with ND4S, Breeze or JBlas.
• Proficiency in either Python with scikit-learn or Scala/Java with Mahout, Weka or MLlib.
• Proficiency in objected oriented programming and design patterns in either Python or Scala/Java
• Proficiency with Git and modern software development workflow
• Familiarity with Linux environments, and setting up and executing machine learning tasks on AWS/Google Cloud/Microsoft Azure
• Proficiency in data visualization
• Experience explaining and performing a variety of data science and machine learning techniques
• Familiarity with computational data structures and algorithms, and computational complexity
• Examples of domain expertise in which we are interested is: predictive modeling, churn analysis, time series forecasting, computer vision, text mining, recommender systems, market basket analysis, segmentation
• Familiarity with handling data in JSON and XML formats is a plus.
• Familiarity with unit testing machine learning algorithms or numerical algorithms is a plus.
• Experience with Keras, TensorFlow, Theano, MXNet or Caffe2 is a plus.
• Experience with distributed computing frameworks such as Spark, Flink or Dask is a plus
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are a must.
• Ability to explain and discuss mathematical and machine learning technicalities to a business audience.
• Must thrive in a fast paced environment and be able to work independently
• Travel required
• Fluent in English and Mandarin. Proficiency in Cantonese, Korean or Japanese is a plus.

About the Company

Building businesses, changing lives

At Tandem, we’ve built a vast network of top-tier professionals across the globe. We empower businesses to thrive by delivering unmatched talent solutions. With our global reach, collaborative approach, and unwavering commitment to excellence, we drive transformative growth and shape exceptional teams.

Who we are.

We are a team of industry experts, driven by a passion for innovation and excellence. We are dedicated to providing unique talent solutions and nurturing collaborative partnerships that redefine success.