Job Opportunity at Umniah in Jordan: Data Scientist

Umniah is offering a job opportunity in Amman, Jordan as a Data Scientist. 

1. Propose, prototype, and deliver to the consumer analytics and data science needs and roadmap
2. Prototype and build models from scratch, to support business needs; going through the full cycle from ideation, data extraction, wrangling, feature engineering to algorithms selection and final “packaging”.
3. Full management of existing predictive models, including churn and propensity ones through timely, periodical runs, and ensuring the same performance levels are maintained through re-trainings and/or augmentation with new features or experimenting with refined/ different algorithms.
4. Perform other related duties as assigned by the direct manager.

Education Bachelor Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Math, Operations Research, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with significant numerical and computational component to it. Master's Degree in Data Science, Analytics or related field is a plus.

Level of Experience Advanced Experience in pure-play data science domain, corporate analytics function or data warehouse/ data engineering areas with demonstrated previous production-level implementations of predictive models and analytics solutions.

Certifications & Licensure:

Desirable:

• SAS Certified Predictive Modeler (or similar)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate
• Cloudera Certified Associate (CCA) “Data Analyst” or “Spark and Hadoop Developer” (or similar)

Tools & Systems

Essential:

• Python, especially data management and machine learning packages (e.g. pandas, scikit-learn)
• SQL Querying (preferably using SQL server or hive/impala)
• SAS Enterprise Miner
• Alteryx
• Power BI (or similar visualization tools)
• Microsoft Excel (at power query and VBA macros programming level)

Desirable:

• ETL tools
• Data Modeling and OLAP cubes creation modules
• Graph analysis Hadoop framework
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Technical Skills & Knowledge Essential:

Essential:

• Excellent knowledge of predictive modeling using a variety of algorithms families. Ideally through either SAS or Python; with demonstrated production level deployments
• Excellent knowledge of data processing and preparation, comfortable with both self-service tools (e.g. Alteryx) or script based (e.g. pandas)
• Excellent knowledge of databases and distributed databases architecture and concepts
• Excellent knowledge in data tabulation, summarization and visualization
• Good knowledge of data modeling design and implementation

Desirable:

• Basic knowledge of deep learning
• Basic knowledge of Tensorflow
• Basic knowledge of social network analysis and graphs analytics at scale

About Umniah:

Umniah is one of the fastest-growing telecommunications operators in the Jordanian market, launched in 2005 and is a subsidiary of Batelco Bahrain (Bahrain Telecommunications Company operating in 14 countries) since 2008. It is offering a diverse array of high-quality mobile, internet and enterprise solutions.

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