Data Scientist Team Lead – (AI Engineer Lead)
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About the Role
Emirates Group seeks a Data Scientist Team Lead to manage and drive data science projects using mathematical modelling, machine learning, and big data analysis. The role requires 7-10+ years of analytics experience, including team management and hands-on expertise in big data technologies and deep learning frameworks.
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Responsibilities
- Manage team of Data Scientists, ensuring culture, strategy and vision are passed to the teams
- Support and drive DS execution within team, targeting and developing relationships with key internal stakeholders
- Derive business insight from large, structured, semi structured and unstructured data sets
- Develop, formulate and execute big data models to solve complex business problems
- Build prescriptive models to identify multi dimensional trends and patterns
- Work with cross functional team members to identify and inject high value actionable insights
- Develop and recommend enhancements to existing tools to advance data science capabilities
- Clearly document and communicate outcomes of data science initiatives
- Inspire and promote the adoption of advanced analytics and data science across the organization
Requirements
- MSc/PhD in a relevant field such as data science, operations research, mathematics, science, data mining, artificial intelligence, applied statistics, machine learning or economics
- 7 10+ years of hands on experience in the Analytics ecosystem
- Experience managing Data Science or Analytics Teams
- 3 5 years hands on experience with big data technologies (Spark and Hadoop ecosystem) and deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, Keras, etc.)
- 5 7 years hands on experience with SQL, R, Python
- 2 4 years hands on experience with DevOps frameworks (Git, CI/CD, Docker)
- 3 5 years hands on experience building libraries and packages to be re used by others
- 3 5 years hands on experience building DS Solutions for production usage
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Job Purpose
- At Emirates Group our Analytics Centre of Excellence (ACoE) is a centralized unit that provides data and analytics support to Emirates Group businesses.
- As a Data Scientist Team Lead you will manage and drive data science projects through the application of mathematical modelling, machine learning, problem structuring and big data analysis to solve complex business problems across the Emirates Group portfolio.
In This Role You Will
- Manage team of Data Scientists, ensuring the culture, strategy and vision are passed to the teams.
- Support and drive DS execution within team, targeting and developing relationships with the key internal stakeholders and clients to continue to drive practice demand growth.
- Derive business insight from large, structured, semi structured and unstructured, data sets and work with business stakeholders to deploy insights derived from this analysis to extract commercial value.
- Develop, formulate and execute big data models to solve complex business problems.
- Research, design, implement and validate cutting edge algorithms to achieve targeted business outcomes using mathematical models, machine learning, operational research theories and dynamic simulations.
- Build prescriptive models to identify multi dimensional trends and patterns to understand our customers, optimise revenue and demand management plus drive efficiencies across the operational environment including aircraft operations, engineering, workforce management and catering.
- Work with cross functional team members, combining computer science and mathematics, to identify and inject high value actionable insights into business processes at their point of highest impact.
- Develop and recommend enhancements to existing tools with the goal of advancing the data science capabilities of the organisation.
- Perform validation and testing of models to ensure adequacy and reformulate models as necessary.
- Clearly document and communicate the outcomes of the data science initiatives and make sure that the insights and findings can be clearly understood by business stakeholders and translated into actions.
- Inspire and promote the adoption of advanced analytics and data science across the entirety of our organization and provide expertise on mathematical concepts for the broader applied analytics team.
Qualifications & Experience
- MSc/PhD in a relevant field such as data science, operations research, mathematics, science, data mining, artificial intelligence, applied statistics, machine learning or economics.
- 7 10+ years of hands on experience in the Analytics ecosystem including:
- Experience Managing Data Science or Analytics Teams or acting as Manager in a consulting company.
- 3 5 years hands on experience with big data technologies (Spark and Hadoop ecosystem) and deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, Keras, etc.).
- 5 7 years hands on experience with SQL, R, Python.
- 2 4 years hands on experience with DevOps frameworks (Git, CI/CD, Docker).
- 3 5 years hands on experience building libraries and packages to be re used by others.
- 3 5 years hands on experience building DS Solutions for production usage.
- Team player with a problem solving attitude.
- Experience of leading & delivering advanced analytical projects to large, complex organisations in a multi functional environment.
- Able to challenge and review the quality and value generated from analytical output.
- Focus on driving business value for business clients to support long term relationships.
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