Data Scientist

Job Purpose Summary

This role is a junior key contributor in the Data Science Lab, where the candidate will receive the appropriate level of supervision until becoming fully proficient:

• Implement and improve existing scientific papers to reach goals defined by senior colleagues
• Natural Language processing (NLP) is a key part of the role
• This role will lead a range of data analytics efforts, including monitoring and improving the performance of our Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models
• Collaborate with legal technology advisors, business departments, innovation lab, finance team and work in the data science lab
• Creation of new statistical models, research of new solutions and supporting different stakeholders on machine learning and deep learning efforts.
• Creation and implementation of any new research projects and evangelisation of the research and the results across the company.
• Collaboration with research colleagues to develop and maintain software embodying research outputs

Key Responsibilities:

The candidate will be responsible for:

• Actively contributing to business analysis during project definitions
• Deep diving into data, doing analysis and discovering patterns and root causes to generate insights that drive our products
• Analyse and evaluate the quality of data used for model training and testing
• Present proposals and results in a clear manner, backed by data, with actionable conclusions to drive business decision to different stakeholders
• Collaborate with scientists and engineers (internal and external) on data collection and feature design effects
• Handle competing requests for a range of data customers (e.g. from LTDA and innovation lab)
• Communicate results to a diverse audience through a wide range of methods including presentation to senior stakeholder
• Evangelise the work done in the Data Science Lab in internal and external speech opportunities
• Build and maintain Data Science products – e.g. web apps for business consumption

Skills & Experience

• Willing to learn new skills, programming languages and development processes
• Previous experience with analysing and quantifying data from public and private repositories
• Experience with descriptive statistics and visualization tools
• Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Experience with deep learning models for NLP
• Experience in neural networks (including recurrent, convolutional, long short memory)
• Expert in Python, R, Notebook; command line usage (Bash)
• Expert in debugging and investigative programming techniques
• Knowledge of statistical modelling and machine learning techniques
• Experience with data selection methods: identify how to choose which data for which experimental setups
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with significant attention to detail
• Experience with big data tools (Spark, Databricks) and familiarity/experience with Azure technology stack (Blob Storage, Data lake, VMs).
• Experience with parallel data processing
• Experience with Flask / web development would be beneficial
• Demonstrable track record dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering results in an agile, dynamic environment
• Desirable fluency in a foreign language due to the multi-language nature of the role.

Professional Expertise

• 4 +years previous experience

Written and Verbal Communications

• Highly developed written communication skills and capable of producing global and sensitive communications to a varied audience at all levels in both Practice Areas and Business Services.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal communications skills – some form of customer-facing interaction or consulting experience is a plus.

Core Competencies

Analytical Thought and Problem Solving

• Makes decisions that solve the immediate problem and prevent it from occurring again. 
• Prepares for potential problems and contingencies in case things go wrong. 
• Takes prompt action to resolve problems quickly. 
• Uses all relevant sources of information, including the team and other colleagues, to generate solutions.

Communicating and Influencing

• Uses a range of different influencing techniques.
• Takes account of different needs and concerns in order to effectively persuade others.
• Communicates effectively with the team through structured meetings and reviews.
• Resolves conflict and delivers feedback in an assertive and transparent way.

Commitment and Self-Motivation

• Makes oneself accessible to clients. 
• Monitors and reviews the quality of service that is provided in order to ensure that it meets/exceeds client expectations. 
• Resolves any problems with clients confidentially and professionally. 
• Remains positive even if progress is slow and solutions are diluted. 
• Is open to learning new skills. 
• Demonstrates a drive towards continual personal growth and development.

Working Relationships

• Is regarded as a 'trusted advisor' by the firm's partners and their senior management. 
• Is a valued member of networks outside their immediate team. 
• Demonstrates credibility and influence with senior clients or stakeholders. 
• Initiates new client relationships. 
• Takes responsibility for growing the reputation of the team.

• MSc or greater in Data Science, Computer Science, Math or Statistics

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