Senior Data Scientist: AI Solutions & Data Strategy Lead

NCS Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to tackle challenging data science problems by extracting insights from large data sets using statistics, ML, and data mining. You will collaborate with business users, project managers, and database engineers to develop analytics algorithms that provide actionable insights.

The role also involves serving as a Project Executive within NCS's project management team, supporting another project and mentoring peers as needed.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Business Analytics or equivalent.
• 5 years' experience in advanced analytics delivery or equivalent academic exposure for interns.
• Strong knowledge in feature selection and extraction across varied data types.
• Competency in supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques.
• Solid understanding of statistics, NLP, simulation, and optimization.
• Proficiency in Python or R, and Apache Spark or similar scripting language.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Qlik, Plotly, or ggplot2.
• Experience with machine learning model deployment using Docker or Kubernetes.
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a concise and actionable manner.
• Skilled in manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, structured and unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer pain-points into problem statements and architect analytics solutions.
• Present results and learnings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Manage full lifecycle of data cleaning, preprocessing, feature engineering, modeling, and deployment.
• Validate models with statistically sound justifications for selection and performance.
• Build and deploy efficient and scalable advanced analytics models in production.
• Design and develop visualizations and dashboards to explain actionable insights.
• Contribute to data architecture engineering decisions to support analytics.
• Work with project managers and leads on status reporting and solution evaluation.
• Collaborate in interdisciplinary teams using waterfall or agile methodologies.
• Mentor and upskill peers and juniors and contribute to internal networks.

Skills

Python

R

Machine learning

Education

Postgraduate degree in Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics

Tools

Apache Spark

Tableau

Qlik

Plotly

ggplot2

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NCS is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to tackle challenging data science problems by extracting insights from large data sets using statistics, ML, and data mining. You will collaborate with business users, project managers, and database engineers to develop analytics algorithms that provide actionable insights.

The role also involves serving as a Project Executive within NCS's project management team, supporting another project and mentoring peers as needed.