Data Scientist

About PDT

PDT, an Astronics Company, provides award-winning product development services and contract manufacturing for highly regulated industries. Our innovation team scouts the latest design and technology trends for a diverse client portfolio across Aerospace & Defense, Internet of Things (IoT), Life Sciences, and Medical Devices. 

Position

The Data Scientists are responsible for applying a wide variety of statistical and analytical techniques to business problems to glean valuable insights in support of key strategic business initiatives. They apply analytical rigour and statistical methods to data and are comfortable manipulating and analysing complex, high-volume, and high-dimensionality data from varying sources. Incumbents are effective communicators capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. On top of that, a Senior Data Scientist works closely with senior stakeholders on strategic initiatives and mentors more junior data scientists.

Responsibilities

• Critical approach to modelling and anticipates data and modelling problems.
• Implements methodologies to generate collect and measure data for business use.
• Works with unstructured/semi structured data to extract useful analytic measures from the data flows.
• Develops and tests medium to complex statistical or computational models.
• Uses advanced data visualisation techniques to present analysis findings.
• Recommends best practices for analysis and virtualisation.
• Understands strategic business goals and anticipates analytical needs to support and measure business decisions.
• Writes moderately complex queries against the big data environment for analysis as well as advanced SQL queries.
• Develops guidelines for data discovery, data cleansing, transformation and assembly of large data sets for analysis.
• Leads some strategic projects in collaboration with Stakeholders
• Collaborates with other related teams on Data Science and big data projects

Your qualification

What We Want From You:

• Ambiguity: is able to deal with moderate levels of ambiguity by bringing clarity to the problem and communicating plans and working toward a solution with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leadership: is able to direct project work of others, able to provide technical mentorship.
• Communication: able to talk, write, and listen effectively with business peers as well as junior data scientists.
• Business Acumen: understands key divisional and strategic business drivers, follows important game KPIs, familiar with key competitors.
• Self-directed: develops changes to high value process improvements, drives initiatives independently, maintains status updates, delivers project work in a timely manner with little supervision.
• Context switching: smoothly moves between long and short term projects as per business needs.
• Coding: Proficiency using at least one programming language.
• Data Wrangling: Familiarity with relational databases, star schema structures, semi structured data and unstructured data.
• Bachelor/Master/PhD degree or equivalent work experience in a quantitative subject such as Computer Science, Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, etc.
• Ability to program, preferably in different programming languages such as Python, R, or SQL.

What we offer

• Up to 5% employer pension contribution with Aviva
• Private Health insurance with Vitality
• Full dental insurance
• Life Insurance
• Long term disability insurance
• 25 days’ holiday
• Employee assistance programme
• Bonus scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Personal development & career plans
• Relocation support
• Study assistance program
• Moving house day