Data Scientist - BIG Data - Sydney

OUR CLIENT IS ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S BEST FINANCIAL SERVICES ORGANISATIONS THAT HAS EXPANDED ITS OPERATIONS GLOBALLY. THE ORGANISATION HAS A LARGE RANGE OF FINANCIAL OFFERINGS TO BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLIENTS ACROSS THE RETAIL, CORPORATE AND INSTITUTIONAL BANKING AREAS.

THEY HAVE A VERY LARGE TECHNICAL FOOTPRINT THAT COMBINES A DYNAMIC RANGE OF TECHNOLOGIES IN AN ULTIMATELY COMPLEX LANDSCAPE. DUE TO BIG DATA BEING ONE OF THE NEXT UP AND COMING TECHNOLOGIES TO SWEEP AUSTRALIA THIS TEAM IS GROWING TO KEEP AHEAD OF THE MARKET.

YOU'LL JOIN AN EXISTING TEAM OF DATA ENGINEERS WHO HAVE EXPOSURE TO A WIDE RANGE OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE ORGANISATION. THE TEAM TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE FOR THIS ORGANISATION WITH A KEY FOCUS ON INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY. DEALING WITH REAL TIME DATA YOU WILL BE PART OF A TEAM BUILDING A DATA INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE NO OTHER.

BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ESTABLISHING AND RUNNING THE DATA SCIENCE, MACHINE LEARNING & BIG DATA CAPABILITIES. YOU'LL HAVE A FIRM GRASP ON RELATIONAL DATABASES, KNOW HOW TO USE MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA MINING TECHNIQUES TO GAIN UNEXPECTED INSIGHTS AND APPLYING SOPHISTICATED DATA MODELLING TECHNIQUES TO IDENTIFY UNDERLYING TRENDS AND PATTERNS.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE ROLE:

- 7+ YEARS' EXPERIENCE
- EXCELLENT SQL, HADOOP, JAVA AND PYTHON SKILLS.
- PROFICIENCY IN USING QUERY LANGUAGES SUCH AS SQL, HIVE, PIG
- EXPERIENCE WITH NOSQL DATABASES, SUCH AS CASSANDRA, HBASE, MONGODB,
- EXCELLENT UNDERSTANDING OF MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES AND ALGORITHMS
- HIGHLY ANALYTICAL MINDSET
- ABILITY TO DISSECT LARGE VOLUMES OF DATA TO PROVE INSIGHTS IN AN ACCESSIBLE WAY
- FAMILIARITY WITH VARIOUS DATA WAREHOUSING TOOLS
- EXPERIENCE WITH DATA VISUALISATION TOOLS, SUCH AS QLIKVIEW
- GOOD APPLIED STATISTICS SKILLS, SUCH AS DISTRIBUTIONS, STATISTICAL TESTING, REGRESSION, ETC.

ALL COMMUNICATIONS WILL BE TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL AND THE MORE WE KNOW ABOUT YOU THE BETTER WE CAN HELP YOU ...

IKAS INTERNATIONAL FINANCE TECHNOLOGY SPECIALISTS