Senior Data Scientist

Company Description

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Our NielsenIQ Technology teams are working on our new “Connect” platform, a unified, global, open data ecosystem powered by Microsoft Azure. Our clients around the world rely on NielsenIQ’s data and insights to innovate and grow.

As a Tech Lead, you’ll be part of a team of smart, highly skilled technologists who are passionate about learning and prototyping cutting-edge technologies. Right now our frontend platform is  Angular, Typescript, and we continue to adopt the best of breed in cloud-native, low-latency technologies. We value CI/CD in everything that we develop. Our team is co-located and agile, with central technology hubs in Chicago, Madrid, Toronto and Chennai.

Job Description

About the Role:

• Join global, international team in a flexible working environment. 

• Evaluate current methodologies and identify opportunities for enhancement (input data cleaning, data preparation methodologies, data quality tracking, consumer projection) 

• Present and communicate findings and recommendations based on research and analysis 

• Design end to end validation/projection performance indicators in connection to the product quality 

• Develop the prototypes of new solutions/methodologies to new market challenges 

• Support production deployment of proposed enhancements/new solutions. 

• Support documentation of findings, methodologies, and best practices 

About You 

You are a great fit to our team if you have knowledge of consumer behavior, panel based projections, and consumer metrics and analytics, and experience working with (un-)managed crowdsourced panels and developing strategies for improving panel engagement.  

Experience with any receipt capture methodologies will be a fantastic addition. 

Qualifications

We are looking for: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Socio-economics, Data Science or other related field with at least 3 or more years experience. 

• Knowledge of/ Interest in consumers and their behavior and (un-)managed consumer related crowdsourced panels 

• Strong aptitude for data analysis. Ability to manipulate, analyze and interpret large data sources. 

• Excellent statistical and logic skills. Experience in data cleaning, outlier validation, sampling, bias reduction, indirect estimation, data aggregation techniques. 

• Experienced in Python or another high-level programming language and willingness to learn Python 

• Experienced with SQL, working with queries and large-scale databases 

• Eager to continuously learn and adopt and develop evolving technologies and tools 

• Strong communication/writing and collaboration skills. 

• (nice to have) Experienced with version control systems 

• (nice to have) Experienced in technology stack for cloud computing (Azure, Linux) 

• (nice to have) Experience/Interest in production level solutions prototyping 

• (nice to have) Experience/Interest in supporting technology teams in production deployment

Additional Information

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing on consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and FMCG and retailers, we enable customers to defy what’s possible. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology, and the industry’s top talent to create insights that unlock innovation. Join us and change the landscape.

Learn more at: www.niq.com

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Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

NielsenIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide.

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