Senior data scientist

SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST(Lisbon x1 day a week *or* remote elsewhere 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.The company is looking to hire experienced Data Scientists at a couple of different levels – Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist / Principal Data Scientist. Projects will focus on Recommender Systems / Recommendation Engines, Customer Personalisation, etc.The company have already made some heavyweight appointments, with the ML Leadership team coming from a number of FAANG organisations. This is a fantastic environment to improve your skillset and encounter new ideas.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 codeBonus RequirementsRecommendation System / Recommender System / Recommendation Engine / RecSys experiencePySpark experienceAzure DataBricks experienceCommercial Deep Learning (including transformers) experienceRepresentation Learning Knowledge