Data Scientist - P26010

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Flexible work arrangement

Learning & development

Career progression

Performance bonus

Job summary

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd in Singapore is seeking a data science professional for a fixed-term contract (1 year) to join the Co-Development Business Unit. You will work on projects for Singapore Government Agencies, translating business challenges into data science initiatives and dashboards.

You will perform data cleaning, feature engineering, model building and deliver compelling insights with visuals to influence decision makers, while collaborating in an Agile environment and managing

Qualifications

• Explore datasets using statistical methods to generate insights.
• Build machine learning models to identify patterns and make predictions.
• Create data visualizations and dashboards for decision-makers.
• Translate business use cases into analytical problems and data sources.
• Prepare scripts for data cleaning and analysis.
• Ensure data quality through cleaning and imputation.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate stakeholder discussions to translate challenges into data science projects.
• Perform data cleaning, preprocessing, feature engineering, build models.
• Present findings and prioritize refinements with stakeholders.
• Communicate insights with visuals to influence decisions.
• Design dashboards and visualizations for data exploration.
• Identify data sources to tackle problems.
• Write scripts for data preparation and analysis.
• Ensure data quality across datasets.

Skills

Data analysis

Statistical methods

Machine learning

Data visualization

Data storytelling

Stakeholder management

Agile project management

Programming (Python/R)

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

MSc in Data Science or related field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Tableau/Power BI

Job description

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realise their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.

We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.

If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people’s lives, then we would love to hear from you.

Co-Development Business Unit is hiring

You will work in Singapore Government Agencies

Internal Code: P26010

This is a fixed term contract role. The engagement is 1 year.

What will you do?

• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to understand their business challenges, sharpen the business use cases and translate them into data science projects
• Perform data cleaning, pre-processing, feature engineering, and build data science models to address the use case
• Present findings, solicit feedback and prioritise refinements to the analysis in close iteration with stakeholders while managing overall project timeline
• Communicate the data insights in a clear and compelling narrative, supported with impactful visuals, to influence key decision makers
• Depending on the use case, design of dashboards and interactive visualisations as tools for data exploration and storytelling may be expected
• Capable of translating business use cases into analytical problems, and identifying appropriate data sources to tackle these problems.
• Proficient in writing scripts for data preparation and analysis, using modern analysis tools & programming methodologies.
• Proficient cleaning, imputing and correcting anomalies in the collected structured or unstructured data to ensure a high standard of quality in data sets to be used in the analysis work.

What are we looking for?

• Proficient in exploring and analysing datasets, applying probability and statistical methodologies and techniques to discover insights from the data.
• Proficient in building machine learning models to identify, recognise patterns and make predictions.
• Proficient in design principles and use of visualisations to best convey the intended information.
• Capable of developing data visualisation from standalone graphs and charts on to highly customised tools and apps while tightly integrated to the data systems for real time visualisation of information.
• Capable of translating results from analysis work into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Capable of communicating results from analysis work in a coherent data story for stakeholders.
• Experience in model deployment.
• Experience in stakeholder management.
• Experience in agile project management.

What do we offer in return?

• Competitive Compensation:Market competitive salary and variable performance bonus aligned to your skills, impact, and contribution.
• Benefits:Outpatient medical, specialist medical coverage and generouscustomisableflexi benefits, or flexi allowance; life and health insurance, thoughtfulperkslike special occasions “red packet” and CNY goodies, etc.
• Employee Wellness:Support foryour physical, mental, and overall well-being through year-round initiatives.
• Growth & Development:Learningprogrammes, certification support, and a dedicated staff development budget. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)
• Career Progression:Structured career pathways that enable you to grow along a technical/domain expert track ora leadershiptrack.
• Competency Framework:A structured and practical framework to support you to develop, perform, and succeed.
• Flexible Work Arrangement:Staff may choose to work flexi-place,flexi-time, and flexi-load based on existing framework

Whyyou'lllove working with us?

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and besurrounded by highly motivated and talented peers, we welcome you to join us. We provide all employees with equal opportunities to grow and develop with us. Webelieveyour success is our success.

Does it sound like something you are interested in exploring further? Please be in touch with our team foran initialchat at [e-mail]

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