Senior Data Scientist - Forecasting

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Senior Data Scientist - Forecasting

We have a new opportunity within our Data Science team for a Senior Data Scientist to lead on Data Science products & projects within our successful Choice Tribe!

Our technology & operations are growing. The Senior Data Scientist will drive cross functional working and ensure Data Science is optimised in all areas possible!

Our operations, logistics and supply chain are integral to ensuring our customers receive their Gousto box. How we optimise our resources is key to ensuring the quality and convenience we want our customers to have, and forecasting orders, recipes and ingredients ensures our customers get what they want when they want it.

As a Senior Data Scientist you will have the ability to drive successful data science projects and team delivery. At Gousto we look to promote and develop our people at all levels and are passionate about continued development within Data Science.

You’ll enjoy collaborating with fellow Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Engineers and Product Managers, translating data science into robust and scalable data products as the business continues to grow massively.

If you’re a natural problem solver and are passionate about data, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

• Adventurer in data science - As a senior member of the data science team you will be using advanced machine learning and optimisation techniques to build tools that will improve the business and make our service highly personalised. We look to our senior team members to unlock new step changes in performance for our existing data products, introduce new theories and technologies to the team and implement data science in new areas of the business.
• End-to-end owner of forecasting data products - As the senior data scientist in this team you will own products for forecasting orders numbers and how popular each recipe might be if we made it available for customers to order next week. We believe that if you build something, you should run it too. This means that our data scientists take ownership over the entire process from ideation to deployment, as well as automation and maintenance. Knowing our data products inside-out allows us to keep learning and improving.
• Passionate about impact - We have big plans for the future, hence we are looking for creative thinkers to help drive the business and disrupt the online grocery market by leveraging machine learning and optimisation. You will work with amazing colleagues and look forward to solving challenging problems that will have a significant impact on the product and our customers. You’ll recognise when to meet complex problems with advanced solutions or when a simple approach cuts through all complexity. Most of all, you are excited about Gousto’s mission and product and really enjoy working with the team.
• Relentlessly raising the bar – We believe that one of the most important things our Senior Data Scientists do is educate the more junior members of the team. We’re looking for someone who can bring new and innovative engineering practices into the team, someone who is willing to help educate and help to improve what we do on a daily basis. As a senior member of the team, you’re always on the lookout for opportunities to help the team fulfil their potential.

Your background

• Strong proven understanding of forecasting techniques such as ARIMA and LGBM
• Comfortable using Python, SQL and PySpark
• Knowledge of managing productionisation of data products
• Skilled in measuring and managing data product performance
• Great communication skills – being able to explain your work and the impact on the business to all types of business partners
• High-energy self-starter with a passion for data, attention to detail, and a positive attitude

Bonus Points For

• Knowledge of a wider range machine learning techniques and optimisation algorithms
• Deep Learning especially RNN
• Knowledge of using AWS Forecast
• Skilled in deploying machine learning algorithms into production environments (AWS)

Benefits

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