Job Description
Data Science Lead - Regional Start-Up Firm
Permanent
* A leading regional financing firm.
* Strong portfolio on growing SME
* Cohesive and inclusive teamwork culture.
About our client:
Our client is a leading financial technology firm in the region, with strong foothold in the Southeast Asian market. With major support from some of the world's key venture capital firms, the company is putting more focus in growing its SEA market further. They are experiencing organizational growth for the foreseeable future, and at the moment they are looking for an experienced Data Science Lead to join this dynamic firm.
Job Description:
The Data Science Lead is responsible for formulating and implementing data strategies to optimize business value derived from data assets. You will need to lead the research direction to create new algorithms and models, and reviews the feasibility of translating research and development outcomes into data solutions. Your role is to understand the business needs and use data to create and implement solutions with.
Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
* Formulating objectives and requirements in line with the business strategy needs, at times with minimal data and unstructured data
* Managing and ensuring the Data Science team to be proficient in statistics, scripting and programming language; Monitoring and improving their work and strategy.
* Overseeing the development of data solutions for the business to inform strategy and planning, decision making and drive performance
* Formulating and implementing data strategy to identify, acquire and use appropriate data models and techniques
* Present data driven business value of data science models and techniques
* Drive implementation of new data management technologies, including but not limited to credit scoring, fraud detection, churn and supply/demand forecasting
* Making full use of insights from research on emerging trends, market developments and environmental scans to support feasibility analysis
The Successful Applicant
We invite an experienced Data Science leader to join this dynamic firm, with a keen eye for improvement and making impact regionally. To be successful you must come with:
* Ability to be upfront, straight forward, and grit personality to drive team members.
* A highly effective communicator, articulating the potential value and impact of data solutions on the business and influencing key business stakeholders.
* Able to develop the data science team's technical and leadership capabilities, and ensures compliance to the organisation's data privacy policies, ethics and governance framework, and intellectual property legislation.
* Ideally 10+ years of solid successful track record of managing the organization's data science strategy
* Ideally 5+ of experience in managing a team and successfully scaling a data science team
* Familiarity in R, Python, SQL
* An advantage for those with experience in project management, credit risk portfolio management, and/or fraud prevention management
* An entrepreneurial spirit that is flexible, experimental, and resourceful
* Modern, energetic, self-starter, display initiative and proposes pragmatic new ideas / approaches
What's on Offer
Our client offers an amazing opportunity for you to join a company that invests in the success of their people. They recruit passionate people, endorse an inclusive work place, and they strive to be a great company to do business with. They stand firm with their Values and how they engage their surroundings: value creation, integrity, responsibility, free speech, and toleration-we encourage one another to take initiative and to challenge the status quo.
They are a company who prepare individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.