Senior Data Scientist

We are TRASYS International, NRB Group, an ICT company with over 30 years of a successful track record working with European Institutions and Agencies, offering IT consulting, solutions and services. Our Mission is to help our clients keep up with the challenges of digital transformation by providing the right talent at the right time for the right job. To this end, we are constantly looking for talented professionals who are interested in working on challenging international projects and able to deliver high-quality results within multicultural environments. Our services include (but are not limited to) modernisation solutions, digital workspaces, cloud technologies and IT security. Our Headquarters are in Brussels, and we have active accounts and offices across Europe (i.e. Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Athens, Stockholm, Geneva).

We are currently searching for a Data Scientist / Database developer for one of our clients, an European Institution.

The objective of this position is to make extensive use of data collection and data analytics techniques for research and monitoring purposes.

You would be in charge of:

• 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 the technical and scientific staff;
• Participation in technical working groups, progress meetings and meetings with the users and other stakeholders.

Requirements

Your Profile:

• Master's degree in a relevant field;
• Experience of min. 10 years in similar tasks;
• 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;
• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment and experience in working in team;
• Rapid self-starting capability, autonomous and accurate working style;
• Excellent team player.

This position is 100% remote with exceptional visits to the client onsite once per quarter. Please note that we can only accept EU professionals willing to work as freelancer and within EU territory.