Data Science Manager Lisboa

Data Science Manager
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

DATA SCIENCE TEAM LEAD / MANAGER

(Lisbon office x1 day a week *OR* fully remote in Portugal)

Xcede are delighted to be working with one of the world's largest gaming companies on the
- up of their
- existing Data Science & Machine Learning Division. The organisation has an enviable wealth of digital / B2C data available to them given the scale of their user base. The company would like to capitalise further on this, hence their ambitious (but
- defined) hiring plans.

In particular, we're currently on the lookout for an experienced Data Science Team Lead - someone who combines the best of Machine Learning, Statistics, Model Deployment, and Managerial experience.

The main aim of this unit is to facilitate and enable the ML unit's key projects. These can range from customer personalisation, recommendation engines, pricing algorithms, and A/B tests.

Requirements

1. An academic background in Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science (or similar).
2. A number of years of commercial experience as a data scientist appropriate to your grade.
3. Commercial experience in designing impactful machine learning models.
4. Experience in helping to take these models to production / deployment.
5. Python expertise proven by writing production quality code.
6. Manage & provide direction to team members.

Bonus Requirements

1. Recommendation System / Recommender System / Recommendation Engine / Rec
   Sys experience.
2. Py
   Spark experience.
3. Azure Data
   Bricks experience.
4. Commercial Deep Learning (including transformers) experience.
5. Representation Learning Knowledge.

If this role interests you and you would like to find out more, please apply here or contact us via niall. wharton@Xcede.com (feel free to include a CV for review).