Data Scientist: AWS / Python / Redshift

Capcon Asia; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the insurance sector is hiring a Data Scientist to spearhead digital transformation initiatives. This role involves customizing health tech products, developing new insurance solutions, and working collaboratively with a dynamic team in Kuala Lumpur. The position allows for 90% remote work, ideal for proactive individuals with a problem-solving mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience in cleaning and analyzing data, and prototyping/testing ML models.
• Good communication skills, especially with non-tech stakeholders.
• Curious, proactive, and impact-driven.

Responsibilities

• Deliver production-ready AI solutions.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders and refine requirements.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

Data Analysis

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

PowerBI

Metabase

AWS RedShift

Job description

About the job Data Scientist: AWS / Python / Redshift

Project:

• Spearheading the digital transformation initiative for one of KLs biggest insurance companies / insure-tech
• Customizing the existing health tech and wellness platform (web and mobile) to suit a large scale enterprise customer
• Develop a whole new B2C medical insurance product - build models, LLM virtual agent etc.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver production-ready AI solutions
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders - reviewing their needs and refining the requirements, exercising judgement to determine the timelines

Team & Culture

• Reporting to the CTO who has promoted internally while joining a wider KL engineering and data team of 10 + collaborating with the product team
• All engineering works are based in KL that supports across SEA
• High trust environment, you can work remote, set your own hours etc
• Would suit someone who has worked in a start up /scale up before and has a continuous improvement mindset - someone who sees challenges as an opportunity to step up, not an obstacle to avoid

Must Have

• Python, SQL and AWS
• Experience in cleaning and analyzing data, prototype and test ML models
• Good communication skills, especially with non-tech stakeholders
• Curious, proactive and impact-driven - enjoys hands-on problem-solving and taking ownership

Nice to have

• Knowledge in BI tools (PowerBI, Metabase) and AWS RedShift

Work Arrangement

• 90% remote - meet 1 x per week as a team