Data Scientist

DCSL Corporate Services Limited - Our client, a Capital Market Investment Company, is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Position: Data Scientist
Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• In fulfilling his or her responsibilities, the successful Candidate will:
• Work with stakeholders across the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions;
• Analyse data from the Company’s database to drive optimization and improve product development, marketing techniques and business strategies;
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques;
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets;
• Use predictive modelling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes;
• Develop Company A/B testing framework and test model quality;
• Coordinate different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes; and
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyse model performance and data accuracy;
• Other responsibilities as defined by the Management team.

Requirements

• A Bachelors’ degree in Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science;
• A Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science is an added advantage;
• Minimum of three (3) years’ work experience;
• Relevant certification in Data Analysis;
• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development;
• Experience in the use of statistical computer languages (R, Python, SLQ, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets;
• Relevant experience in the creation of Data Architectures;
• Sound knowledge in a variety of machine learning techniques; and
• Sound knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts and experience with applications.