Position: Principal Data Scientist
Company: SPD-Ukraine
Category: Data Science
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

**Few words about SPD-Ukraine**

At SPD-Ukraine, great people create great software. Our story started in 2006. Now the team of 500+ cool specialists continues to write our story. Located in Ukraine (Kyiv, Cherkasy), we create products used by people all over the world. And what we do is what gets us out of bed in the morning.

We are looking for a **Principal Data Scientist** to join the initiatives we are taking to improve the product offerings of our client, from the perspective of risk modeling and business forecasting. This is a great opportunity to join a team that is growing and truly providing valuable insight and recommendations to drive revenue and growth for the client. You will have the opportunity to partner with our senior leadership team in addition to other senior-level folks. This is high visibility, a high-impact role that is designed to help drive our client product roadmap.

**Scope of your responsibilities:**

In this role, you will be responsible for owning the research charter for Data & Decision Science, to enable the business stakeholders to be data-driven and deterministic, by providing insights into the decisions at hand and roadmap planning. You will join a team of Data Scientists providing mentorship and enabling a culture of 360-degree analysis of business, with ownership of the modeling environments and risk Engines. You will evangelize sound practices for prototyping of concepts, to fail-fast and/or keep a continuum of persistent research.

You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to solve real-world data science problems by analyzing one-off questions and creating reusable solutions. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to prioritize important questions and to provide scalable and reproducible solutions based on data. You will partner with software and data engineers to employ statistical and econometric modeling.

**Required qualifications:**

- Masters or Ph.D. in Statistics, Decision Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Economics or Computer Science or the equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience.
- 7-10+ years of overall professional experience with 3-5+ years in data science, doing exploratory data analysis, testing hypotheses, and building prescriptive & predictive models.
- A strong background in advanced mathematics, in particular statistics & probability theory, data mining, and machine learning.
- Expert in feature engineering, experimentation with A/B testing, statistical modeling, causal inference, visualization techniques, and machine learning to model complex, ambiguous problems to find opportunities, discover solutions and deliver actionable business insights.
- Demonstrated experience in the creation, deployment, and performance evaluation of supervised and unsupervised machine learning models.
- Proficiency in both Python and SQL.
- Previous experience efficiently conducting research and creating on-demand reports.
- Experience handling large datasets, diving into data to discover hidden patterns, using data visualization and analysis tools.
- Strong Communication: the ability to articulate clearly, navigate & adapt across different seniority levels
- Be passionate about collaboration to solve complex problems.
Be eager to help teammates, share knowledge with them, and learn together.

— Fraud/Risk modeling experience
— Experience with econometrics
— Experience with production model development, implementation, and monitoring
— Experience in an Agile development environment
— Experience with AWS cloud environment
— Participation in Kaggle competition, open-source projects, publications in data science and machine learning domain

**What we offer for that**

**Conditions & Space**

You’ll have 20 paid holidays. Get sick? Stay home and get better — sick leavers are paid. Flexible working hours. Work remote or at the office (Kyiv, Cherkasy). You’ll be free to adjust your working space — choose a type of chair and model of laptop (depending on the project).

**Clients & Projects**

You’ll be engaged in the creation of products granted SIIA CODIE and GeekWire awards. Our clients are startups and companies with strong investments and innovative ideas. You’re free to change a project — internal rotation is available.

**Learning & development**

Online corporate library, soft skills training, internal educational events are available for you. Our Career Advisor helps you with a Personal Development Plan. SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses on conferences, certifications, etc. Plus, free English classes with native speakers.

**Sport & Health**

You’ll get compensation for sports activities. If you take COVID testing, SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses. Medical insurance is also available. You’ll be able to get online support from psychologists and mentors provided by a third-party service.

**Fun & Activities**

You’ll enjoy two big company events (SPD Summer Party and SPD Winter Awards). Every month you’ll be able to have team-building activities. Presents are waiting for you for big life events (marriage, childbirth) and nice presents just for fun.

**About project**

Blackhawk Network shapes the future of global branded payments through prepaid products, technologies, and networks that connect brands and people. The collaborative innovation and scalable, security-minded solutions help their partners to increase reach, loyalty, and revenue. We believe our future holds great things for the client and their partners and together, we can shape the future.

Does this sound like the kind of place you want to work at? We look forward to hearing ’hi’ from you :)