Senior Data Scientist

About Talabat

Talabat is the leading online food ordering platform in MENA, operating in 8 countries across the region, with over 1,600+ employees, millions of users, we deliver hundreds of thousands of orders every day.

We are part of the Delivery Hero network building the next generation of online food-delivery platforms across the globe. Our network is truly international with engineering teams in 13 countries and operations in 40+ countries.

Our Tech teams leverage a diverse stack to create cutting-edge solutions to complex problems that cover the full customer experience - starting with an online search for food and ending with a delicious meal arriving at your doorstep.

Position

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will analyze, understand, profile and describe structured and semi-tructured data from all areas of the business.

Responsibilities:

• Transform fuzzy/high-level requirements and objectives to solvable problem statements and requirements
• Collaborate with other data scientists, product specialists, and user experience teams to understand business processes, identify data and solution requirements
• Research and identify novel and practical solutions; defines and communicate solution designs and approaches
• Identify and specify data needs and quality requirements to support analysis
• Research, design and implement descriptive, predictive and inferential models using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques
• Collaborate with data engineers to develop well-crafted data engineering solutions
• Design, build and operate scalable, generalizable and cost-effective data products based on requirements
• Build, configure, deploy and maintain ETL and data pipelines in production
• Summarize, document and communicate data transformation and analysis to stakeholders
• Lead the definition and improvement of best practices and procedures
• Contribute to team planning and the definition of team goals 
• Develop, improve and expand the data science code base
• Mentors and support the development of more junior team members

Your qualification

• Proven experience (6+ years) designing and developing artificial intelligence or machine learning applications at scale
• Strong academic knowledge and strong hands on experience (4+ years) in data mining, applied statistics and machine learning
• Experience (2+ years) with mathematical and statistical data analysis techniques (such as regression, extrapolation, time series analysis, forecasting, statistical hypothesis testing and econometric models) 
• Advanced knowledge (4+ years) of SQL, and either Python or Java 
• Experience (2+ years) with languages and tools for of data manipulation, analysis and plotting (R, R-shiny, R-markdown, Python, Pandas, Matplotlib, Bokeh, Jupyter)
• Experience (3+ years) in performing A/B & multivariate testing to measure impact of applied models 
• Experience (3+ years) with cloud data exploration, analysis and reporting tools (Athena, DataStudio, Looker)
• Experience (3+ years) with data visualization techniques and packages (matplotlib, d3, highcharts)
• Familiarity (3+ years) using agile project management, issue tracking tools and version control systems (Jira, Pivotal, Rally, Git)

Behaviours:

• Fully independent, technically confident and versatile communication (technical vs business vs layman vs C-level)
• Proactively generates new project or improvement ideas
• Actively seeks and cultivate relations with other teams
• Able to empathize with customers and understand the relationship between data and behaviors
• Hands on and pragmatic approach to new challenges 
• Efficiently produces high quality well thought and thoroughly reviewed work
• Proactively looks for and investigates new tools and techniques
• Develops and expands the team's knowledge-base through taking and giving training
• Is comfortable presenting their work in public

What we offer

• Dynamic & innovative environment
• Building the fastest growing, largest and most valuable network of online food ordering services in the world
• Working with diverse, cross-cultural teams from over 55 nationalities
• Developer Exchange Programs with other DH entities
• Company events, hackathons, cultural and sports events
• Fresh fruit, cereal, beverages, tea and coffee
• Comprehensive healthcare as well as subsidized gym membership and parking
• Relocation package