Data Scientist: AWS, Python, Redshift

Capcon; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in Malaysia seeks a professional to spearhead digital transformation in a prominent insurance company. The candidate will be tasked with delivering AI solutions and developing new medical insurance products. Familiarity with Python, SQL, and AWS is required, along with strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement. This role offers a high level of trust, allowing 90% remote work with flexible hours.

Qualifications

• Experience in cleaning and analyzing data, and prototype and test ML models.
• Good communication skills, especially with non-tech stakeholders.
• Enjoys hands-on problem-solving and taking ownership.

Responsibilities

• Deliver production-ready AI solutions.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders, reviewing their needs and refining the requirements.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

Data analysis

Communication with non-tech stakeholders

Curiosity and proactivity

Tools

PowerBI

Metabase

AWS RedShift

Job description

• 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

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