Data Scientist

Averis; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Averis is hiring a Data Scientist (Advanced Insights) to transform operational data into actionable insights and deliver GenAI-enabled solutions on governed enterprise data. You will own end-to-end delivery from problem framing to dashboard deployment and iterative improvements.

The role emphasizes shipping reliable solutions adopted by business users, mentoring junior analysts, and developing KPI definitions and dashboards with strong stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics, BI, data science, data engineering, or adjacent roles with end-to-end delivery ownership.
• Strong quantitative reasoning and ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured analyses and decisions.
• Proficiency in SQL and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL or similar).
• Practical experience delivering RAG, LLM-based structured extraction, or API integrations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to deliver iteratively in time-boxed environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities where analytics and GenAI improve decision-making and process performance.
• Translate business needs into analytical questions, KPI definitions, reporting requirements, and GenAI user stories.
• Design and maintain analytics data models and dashboards; ensure data quality and traceability of key measures.
• Design and implement GenAI workflows (RAG pipelines, embeddings, retrieval, prompting) and API integrations.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Python

Dashboarding

GenAI integration

Stakeholder management

Job description

Grow your career with us

Here at Averis, our common purpose is to improve lives by developing resources sustainably. Our people are crucial in helping us to realise our vision to be one of the best Global Business Solution (GBS) organization to support our customers in creating value for the Community, Country, Climate, Customer and Company.

Responsibilities

TheData Scientist (Advanced Insights) is responsible for transforming operational data into actionable insights that improve business performance. The role owns end-to-end delivery: problem framing, dataset and metric design, dashboard development, and the implementation of GenAI-enabled solutions that sit on top of governed enterprise data. The successful candidate is delivery-oriented, collaborative, and capable of shipping reliable solutions that are adopted by business users.

Key Responsibilities

I) Business & Decision Analytics

• Partner with stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities where analytics and GenAI improve decision-making and process performance.
• Translate business needs into analytical questions, KPI definitions, reporting requirements, and GenAI user stories.
• Manage a portfolio of deliverables with clear success measures and measurable outcomes.

II) Analytics Engineering & Metric Governance

• Extract, clean, transform, and integrate data from multiple systems to produce trusted analytics datasets.
• Design and maintain analytics data models (e.g., star schema / subject-area models) to support reporting and retrieval.
• Define auditable metric logic and ensure consistency, data quality, and traceability of key measures.

II) Dashboards, Reporting & Data Storytelling

• Design and develop operational dashboards and reports that clearly communicate performance, trends, and exceptions.
• Present insights in business language with clear implications and recommended actions.
• Iterate with users to improve usability, clarity, and adoption.

IV) GenAI Solutions (RAG, Chat, Structured Extraction)

• Design and implement GenAI workflows including RAG pipelines (ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, prompting).
• Build document Q&A and structured extraction solutions (documents fields/JSON) with validation and post-processing.
• Build lightweight API services (e.g., FastAPI/Flask) to enable integration with internal systems and workflows.

V) Mentoring & Standards

• Mentor junior analysts / team members on problem framing, SQL, data modelling, dashboard best practices, and GenAI evaluation hygiene.
• Define and promote templates and standards for KPI definitions, dashboards, documentation, and evaluation.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics, BI, data science, data engineering, or adjacent roles with end-to-end delivery ownership.
• Strong quantitative reasoning and ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured analyses and decisions.
• Demonstrated proficiency in:
  • SQL and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL or similar)
  • Python for data manipulation and analysis
  • Dashboarding and data storytelling fundamentals (tool-agnostic)
• Practical experience delivering at least one of the following in a production or near-production setting:
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using a vector database
  • LLM-based structured extraction into JSON / schemas
  • LLM integration via APIs into an end-user workflow
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; able to deliver iteratively in time-boxed environments.