Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Heidelberg or Berlin – Competitive Salary + Further training opportunities, individual working hours, pension schemes and team activities

This leading German Data-Driven software company are currently seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their IT Division due to the targeted growth of the Data Science & Business Intelligence department.

This is an excellent opportunity for any Senior Data Scientist with the relevant skills to gain valuable experience and take a huge step forward in their career.

This company is renowned for its culture and how they look after their staff. Everyone is pulling together to combine exciting project work with individual work-life balance.

Appreciation of work and personality, early delegation of responsibility, and confidence in one’s abilities characterize this company.

About the Company:

Forecasting, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data Analytics and more are the driving forces behind this company.

Founded over 3 decades ago, this German software company have an excellent reputation across the 3 regions they operate in within Germany.

They offer fully integrated end-to-end solutions: going all the way to corporation-wide software platform implementations and clinical trial evaluations from exploratory analytical proof of concepts.

Operating as highly specialized experts in Data Science, Data Analytics, Software Engineering, and Cloud – they offer great project variety and development opportunities.

About the Senior Data Scientist Vacancy:

• As a Senior Data Scientist (mwd), you will, among other things, be actively involved in the digitalization of business processes and production systems through artificial intelligence at leading companies
• You analyze customers’ challenges, translate them into complex, analytical questions and integrate everything closely with IT
• You will contribute your professional skills, use your entrepreneurial thinking and thus further develop our strategic projects with high-impact
• You share your knowledge with others – as a mentor for other colleagues or in our proven competence management

Ideal Requirements for Senior Data Scientist Vacancy:

• At least a good degree in computer science, business informatics or related disciplines or in mathematics, physics or comparable natural science courses
• Several years of practical experience in data science, business intelligence or software engineering in a machine learning environment or as a consultant in a digitalization context
• Very good knowledge of at least one analytical programming language (e.g. Python, R) or a general-purpose programming language (e.g. C#, Java, C++, Rust)
• Good knowledge of using relational databases and SQL
• Experience with cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS), big data technologies (e.g. Spark, Kafka) and operationalization tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in DevOps/MLOps principles and tools
• Strong communication skills in German and English – within the team and towards customers

Additional Points:

Good knowledge in:

• The application of software engineering principles and life cycle management
• Relational databases and SQL
• Logical and conceptual data modelling
• Mathematical, statistical and computer science methods for model development, as well as their applicability to specific problems
• Machine learning or deep learning
• Cloud technologies, in particular Microsoft Azure or AWS
• DevOps tools
• Good consulting skills or potential

Nice-to-have expertise in:

• Business Intelligence
• Virtualisation with Docker and Kubernetes
• Big data technologies, e.g. Hadoop, Spark, streaming
• Experience with non-relational databases, e.g. graph databases
• Linux
• Sales affinity in the expert role