DATA SCIENCE TEAM LEAD / MANAGER(Lisbon office x1 day a week *OR* fully remote in Portugal)Xcede are delighted to be working with one of the world’s largest gaming companies on the scale-up of their pre-existing Data Science & Machine Learning Division. The organisation have an enviable wealth of digital / B2C data available to them given the scale of their userbase. The company would like to capitalise further on this, hence their ambitious (but well-defined) hiring plans.In particular, we’re currently on the lookout for an experienced Data Science Team Leam – someone who combines the best of Machine Learning, Statistics, Model Deployment and Managerial experience.The main aim of this unit is to facilitate and enable the ML unit’s key projects. These can range from customer personalisation, recommendation engines, pricing algorithms, anti-fraud algos, marketing model, and A/B tests.RequirementsAn academic background in Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science (or similar)A number of years of commercial experience as a data scientist appropriate to your grade.Commercial experience in designing impactful machine learning modelsExperience in helping to take these models to production / deploymentPython expertise proven by writing production quality codeManage & provide direction to team members.Bonus RequirementsRecommendation System / Recommender System / Recommendation Engine / RecSys experiencePySpark experienceAzure DataBricks experienceCommercial Deep Learning (including transformers) experienceRepresentation Learning KnowledgeIf this role interests you and you would like to find out more, please apply here or contact us via niall.wharton@Xcede.com (feel free to include a CV for review).