Data Scientist
SETS -
Cairo, EgyptPosted 6 years ago53Applicants for1 open position
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Description
SETS North Africa is seeking a creative, highly talented Data Scientist to contribute to interesting large-scale data projects in the MENA and Gulf Region. The successful candidate is expected to glean insights from a massive pool of data available and tackle a higher volume and velocity of data. The position is available in the SETS Cairo office.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Wrangle, extract, transform, and load data from various databases, formats, and data sources
- Use exploratory data analysis techniques to identify meaningful relationships, patterns, or trends from complex data sets
- Classify unlabeled data or predict into the future with applied statistics and machine learning algorithms
- Communicate data analysis and findings through effective data visualizations
Job Requirements
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems.
- Minimum of 3-5 year’s related or equivalent experience in the following:
- Statistical programming language, like R or Python;
- Database querying language like SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL;
- Visualization and mapping packages like D3, ggplot, matplotlib; and
- Big data handling Hadoop-based technologies like MapReduce, Hive, and Pig
- Relevant experience/ courses/certifications on specific topics like statistics, machine learning, data munging / wrangling.
Other Requirements
- Good report writing and excellent presentation skills
- Excellent communication skills – written and verbal (Arabic/English)