Position: Senior Data scientist
Company: Grid Dynamics
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

As a part of Data Science team, the Senior Data Scientist will lead the development of next-generation platform for customers micro-segmentation, clasterization, behaviour analysis and prediction as well as building up new improved recommendation system for the customers.

The position requires excellent communication skills and experience working directly with technology teams as well as with business stakeholders. Being able to present findings in a meaningful and clear way is a must.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the team of 5 - 10 skilled data scientists and data engineers.
- Plan R&D process to fit sprint goals as well as the project milestones.
- Design a new solution architecture for customers clusterization, NLP and prediction analysis.
- Drive the collection, cleaning, processing and analysis of new and existing data sources.
- Develop and test ML models using Python/Keras/Tensorflow/Spark stack.
- Communicate with business stakeholders to clarify their requirements and present the team work results.

Requirements:

- Seasoned data scientist with 5+ years of experience.
- Strong practical knowledge of analytical techniques and methodologies such as machine learning (supervised and unsupervised techniques), segmentation, time series modeling, response modeling, lift modeling, survival analysis.
- Experience with look-alike modeling and sequential-input models (eg LSTM).
- Experience with NLP and textual data analysis.
- Technologies: Python/Jupyter, Tensorflow, keras, scikit, gensim, stanfordNLP, Spark.
- Strong working knowledge of SQL, Teradata preferred
- Understanding of and experience with customer intelligence & marketing domains a plus.
- Good communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in working across different global cultures a plus.

We offer:

- Opportunity to work on bleeding-edge projects
- Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
- Very competitive salary
- Flexible schedule
- Medical insurance
- Benefits program
- Corporate social events
- Professional development opportunities

About us:

Grid Dynamics is the engineering services company known for transformative, mission-critical cloud solutions for retail, finance and technology sectors. We architected some of the busiest e-commerce services on the Internet and have never had an outage during the peak season. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Ramon, California with offices throughout the US and Eastern Europe, we focus on big data analytics, scalable omnichannel services, DevOps, and cloud enablement.