Junior Data Scientist M/F - VIE New York City

Job description

Responsibilities

The focus of the role is to:

·  Identify business cases, deliver prototype to quickly test if value can be generated.
·  Apply data-driven analysis to model & extract informational value to deliver value add solutions Contribute to defining / creation of data / analytic infrastructure for the team / firm

As Junior Data Scientist, you will:

·  Join a small worldwide team of data science experts
·  Help identify business cases, deliver prototype to quickly test if value can be generated.
·  Work with business and technology teams to design and supervise the implementation of data science and machine learning techniques in the Americas
·  Apply data-driven analysis to model quantitative relationships, extract informational value, and formulate forecasts and actionable conclusions
·  Promote the emergence of a cooperative pool of data science talents, provide soft guidance and help in the optimal allocation of these talents to projects
·  Contribute to the technology watch on data technologies; stay current with leading edge systems, methods, and best practices in the data science/machine learning fields and use such product and market knowledge to guide scoping discussions with business units

Profile Required

The VIE assignment in a nutshell

This VIE in New York City is to begin as soon as possible but you need to plan 3 months between your application date and the beginning of your VIE assignment. It will last 18 months. The VIE is a specific contract, under Business France's eligibility criteria, opened to candidates under 28 and from the member states of the European Economic Space. For further information, please see www.civiweb.com.

Your profile

Graduate with a Master degree from Business school, Engineering School or University, majoring in Computer Science.

You have strong Python programming skills.

You are fluent in English.

Competencies

·  Creative thinking and problem-solving skills
·  Ability to display a clear interpretation, communication, and presentation of results
·  Practical knowledge of machine learning, performing data mining and statistical modelling.
·  Data-access/acquisition skills (relational & nosql databases, rest apis, file systems, queues / buffers, …)
·  Data manipulation skills(file formats: json, xml, csv, …| frameworks: pandas )
·  Follows source control best practices (git, github, pull requests…)
·  Applies good experiment, and modelling tracking practices (mlflow, data cataloguing, journaling)
·  Foster a collaborative open-minded environment
·  Genuinely curious and passionate about state of the art solutions
·  Responsible and courageous to speak up to highlight potential flaws in solution

Why Join Us

To facilitate the examination of your application by our English-speaking managers, we thank you for applying in English.

Business Insight

The data science team focuses on:

·  finding opportunities to leverage data and software to add value to our businesses
·  bridging the gap between legacy techniques and taking a data driven approach.
·  delivering data drive uses cases (e.g. natural language processing, business intelligence, prediction/forecasting, recommendation engines, etc.)

We are an equal opportunities employer and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents , regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, sexual or gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.

Job code: 2000028G
Business unit: SG CIB
Starting date: 04/05/2020
Date of publication: 28/01/2020