Senior Data Scientist – Kingfisher plc Vacancies Caerphilly

Overview

Position Title: Senior Data Scientist

Company: Kingfisher plc

Location: Caerphilly, UK

Job Description

We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 79,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the top tier home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership and support for the junior members of the team
• Work across with banners and group functions to support building a data science roadmap that minimises time to value and improves long term efficiency.
• Support teams with varied strengths in translating between business and data in the design of project work, and in the synthesis and communication of recommendations and results.
• Collaborate with tech, product and data teams to develop the data platforms that allow us to apply data science and embed the use of data science directly in our products and processes.
• Support the data science leadership team in developing a “data culture” and demonstrating the value of data in our decision making.

Requirements:

• Excellent understanding of classical Machine Learning algorithms (e.g. Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, etc.) as well as innovative research area (e.g. NLP, Transfer Learning etc.) and Deep Learning algorithms (e.g. BERT, LSTM, etc.)
• Solid knowledge of SQL and Python’s ecosystem for data analysis (Jupyter, Pandas, Scikit Learn, Matplotlib).
• Solid understanding of model evaluation, data pre-processing techniques, such as standardisation, normalisation, and handling missing data.
• Solid understanding of summary, robust, and nonparametric statistics; hypothesis testing, probability distributions, sampling techniques, and stochastic processes.
• Proven experience of delivering several high-quality AI-based products and experience of productionisation of Machine Learning based products