Sr. Data Scientist
Poatek, Brazil

Poatek is a growing Boutique of IT Consulting, focused on developing critical applications for international clients. We are always looking to meet people who love IT, just like we do! Born out of an innovative idea, our company provides a relaxed environment and a chance for you to grow in a technical career.
Our team’s number one priority is to make sure our clients have the best results from their applications. Here’s why we need great Data Scientists working with us! Your job is to help our clients make the best business decision by analyzing a vast amount of data.

Here are some of the challenges you’ll face as Data Scientist at Poatek:

• Work on all aspects of the design, development and delivery of machine learning enabled solutions for our clients
• Ability to come up with solutions to loosely defined business problems by leveraging pattern detection over complex datasets across multiple platforms
• Determine analytical approaches and modeling techniques to evaluate scenarios and potential future outcomes
• Analyze and interprets data from structured and unstructed data sources in both batch and streaming modes
• Establish efficient, automated processes for large-scale modeling
• Perform ad-hoc exploratory and explanatory analysis
• Become part of a highly skilled and geographically distributed team
• Collaborate with peers on problem definitions, data acquisition, data exploration, visualization as well as building the tools that support this process
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive

Requirements

• A Bachelor and/or Master degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science or other related subject
• Strong command of statistical programming languages (especially R and Python)
• Model development in Python (machine learning, recommendation engines)
• Big Data Hadoop work experience (either integration the models with the tools in Hadoop or other)
• Software development experience from scoping, requirements design, development, integration, testing, go live to PROD (vs internal research work)
• Experience working with Bank raw data (credit card, customer, product, real-time and batch)
• Other programming experience (Spark, SAS, Scala, Java, etc.) is a huge plus
• Experience in working with large datasets and relational databases is highly desirable (SQL)
• Ability to work on distributed cloud platforms
• Exceptional written and verbal communication as well as presentation skill
• Curiosity and an investigative profile: you’re a data-driven problem solver!

Benefits

• Be part of an innovative consultancy company
• Flexible hours and autonomy
• Work in international and agile projects
• International travels
• Voucher for health activities
• English classes
• Support in national and international courses
• Food allowance
• Snacks, drinks and video game in the office
• Work in a company with highly-skilled professionals
• Transportation or parking slot
• Annual attractive bonus

Job Rewards and Benefits