Data Scientist

The company
Based in Brussels, Belgium, Our Client is an international telecommunications group and the largest in Belgium, he operates in the BeNeLux area.

Your Role
Our Client is looking to reinforce the Advanced Analytics Center of Expertise, a centralized team of data scientists that is supporting the different business units. As a Data Scientist, you will transform data into actionable insights that drive operational processes or influence strategic decisions. Use cases can be company-wide covering domains such as predictive maintenance, network analytics, operational efficiency, customer relationship management, image recognition and natural language processing.

Responsibilities
• Translate business requests into data requirements, extract the required structured and unstructured data from the company data lake, data warehouse and other data sources (e.g. operational systems) and prepare large-scale datasets for modelling.
• Identify high-value use cases through data exploration and visualization.
• Develop predictive models using state-of-the-art machine learning and statistical methods.
• Pilot prototypes in production processes to demonstrate their value.
• Deploy prototypes to production, with support of IT, to obtain reliable, scalable systems.
• Present your results in a clear manner and discuss them with multi-functional project teams.
• Work in close collaboration with business experts (e.g. for requirement gathering, data source identification, data and process understanding, feature engineering, result validation, etc.), with IT (e.g. for ETL, deployment to production, etc.) and with other data scientists in the team (e.g. for knowledge sharing).

Degree & Experience
• PhD or Master's degree in a quantitative field (Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.)
• 2+ years of relevant work experience in a business environment

Technical skills
• Strong knowledge of state-of-the-art machine learning and statistical methods.
• Hands-on experience with data science technologies such as Python. Experience with deep learning (e.g. Tensorflow, PyTorch), big data (e.g. Spark, Hadoop), real-time streaming and cloud technologies is a plus.
• Proven proficiency in the end-to-end data science project life cycle, including:
• Translating business requests into data requirements.
• Identifying high-value use cases through data exploration and visualization.
• Developing machine learning solutions (incl. feature engineering, model fitting, etc.).
• Deploying scalable machine learning applications to production.
• Any experience with following elements is big plus:
• MLOps (CI/CD) - e.g. Airflow
• Containerized deployment of ML products – e.g. Kubernetes

Soft skills
• Passionate about data science and a constant learner
• Result-oriented and highly proficient in transforming data into actionable insights that create business value
• Team player with strong communication and presentation skills
• Able to manage data science projects in an autonomous way and to drive collaboration with domain experts, data engineers and other data scientists
• Knowledge in the field of telecommunications is a plus

Location
You will be working from Brussels offices, teleworking can be arrange with the agreement of the client.

Duration
The contract will be for 12 months with extension possibility

Living in Brussels
Brussels is Europe’s capital, it is the home of the European Union’s institutions. It has one of the largest expat communities in the world. It's quite chic, with its parks, squares and fashionable restaurants and bars – definitely an 'in' place to be.
As an English speaker, you can navigate easily in the city and the country as whole. Brussels public administration officials are used to dealing with English speakers also.
Living in Brussels is also being few hours away from Europe’s biggest capitals: London, Paris and Amsterdam. Brussel South Charleroi Airport is one of the cheapest airports to fly from in Europe, low cost companies like Ryanair and Wizz Air offer flights at very affordable prices.
Our team will be more than happy to inform about relocating and cost of living in Brussels. We will advise on where to find a place to live, which neighborhood, where to go to restaurants, phone and internet providers, public transportations…etc.

Apply:
Curious or interested ? Do not hesitate to send us your CV : Miroslava E.M. ( [email protected]) +421 908 324 982
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