Data Scientist

Our client is one of the biggest science hubs in Europe.

It employs approximately 3.000 top-notch researchers, engineers and scientists eager to resolve challenges and provide knowledge in order to support EU policies in a variety of areas from agriculture and food security, to environment and climate change, as well as nuclear safety, security and growth.

At the moment, they are looking for a Data Scientist to:

• Design, implementation, testing, maintenance, deployment and documentation of software, with a focus on data collection, data management, data analytics and machine learning in python.
• Provide subject matter expert technical support on data science and software development to European Institution technical and scientific staff.
• Participation in technical working groups, progress meetings and meetings with the users and other stakeholders

Requirements

• Experience and/or ability to become proficient in data scraping (including from web sources), both programmatically through API calls, as well as using specialised libraries such as selenium, scrapy, beautifulsoup and similar.
• Excellent knowledge of the python programming language and relevant experience with libraries
• used for data science, statistics and machine learning
• Excellent software development skills, including the ability to design and implement python
• libraries and programs in line with requirements provided.
• Knowledge and experience following best practices for software development, including
• documentation, testing and test automation, performance optimization, code versioning.
• Experience in data scraping (including web scraping), data collection, management of structured
• and unstructured data, database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD practices. Experience with Gitlab or similar environments.
• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies and libraries for machine learning and data science.
• Skills in one or more of the following would be advantageous: building recommendation systems,
• scraping and analysis online platform or social network data, natural language processing, user
• interface design.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation of software for users and other developers, in English
• language.