Head of Data Science

5 days ago

Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia MAXIS Malaysia Full time

Are you ready to get ahead in your career?

  • We want to empower you to turn your ambitions into achievements.
  • We thrive in inclusiveness, diversity and embrace close collaborations for you to create impact for yourself and others.
  • Together, we aim to bring the best of technology to help people, businesses and the nation to be ahead in a changing world.
  • To realise our vision to become Malaysia's leading converged solutions company, we are looking for a new talent to innovate and grow with us in a culture that values commitment, performance and possibilities.

Why does this job exist and why is it critical?

  • Understanding of machine learning algorithms such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision trees.
  • Experience using ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform products and services such as Vision API, Recommendations API, Cloud Natural Language.
  • In-depth knowledge of AI core components, operations & techniques through their real-world advantages/drawbacks, and ability to prescribe and implement feasible and appropriate conventional/AI related techniques that serve as solutions to problems.
  • Strong ability to implement, improve, and deploy ML and Math models.
  • Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability.
  • Develop and maintain the design and troubleshooting/error documentation.
  • Create cost-effective scalable systems and develop innovative algorithm solutions.
  • Research on algorithm improvements for higher performance, accuracy, and optimality.
  • Decision intelligence
  • Drive decision science aspects as a standard user experience - staff or customer - process (cognitive biases, cross-cultural reasoning, statistical interpretation, human factor impact, algorithmic bias etc.).
  • Actively showcase the added value of design thinking, data-driven decisions, agile and user-centric methods.
  • Support research (user and markets) and data processes for enhanced decision quality.
  • Develop strategic action plans integrating human factors and data science to improve AI-driven decisions and choice architecture (persuasive design).

This job is ideal for you if you have:

  • BS/MS/PhD in Science & Engineering (Statistics, Management, Cognitive / Psychology, AI, Analytics, Marketing, Design, Finance, Econometrics).
  • More than 10 years relevant experience.
  • Experience with common data science toolkits, programming languages, visualization tools and SQL/NoSQL databases.
  • Good applied statistical knowledge with emphasis in business and finance related statistical distributions, statistical testing, modeling, regression analysis, etc.
  • Experience with distributed computing platforms and open-source tools and libraries.
  • Experience developing and deploying to the cloud.
  • Familiar or prone to adopt design thinking methods.
  • Able to work under pressure and change, and balance among speed, reliability, and interpretability.
  • Good working knowledge of productivity tools such as G Suite, Git, Jira, Confluence.
  • Experience with code versioning, code review and documentation.
  • Ability to work with incomplete or imperfect data to extract usable information.
  • Attention to detail, data accuracy and quality of output.
  • Be positive, passionate, collaborative, self-motivated, responsible, dependable, and enthusiastic team player.
  • Demonstrated skills in selecting the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem.
  • Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated leadership and self-direction.
  • Demonstrated willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
  • Ability to mentor junior data scientists.

What's next?

  • Once you've applied online, our team will carefully review your application. Due to a high volume of applications, we appreciate your patience to allow for a fair and timely review process.
  • Should you be shortlisted for the role, we will send you an invitation via email for a digital interview. You can also check on your application status by logging into your candidate account.

Maxis values diverse voices & people. We hire and reward our employees based on capability & performance — regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, education, religion, nationality or physical ability.

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