Responsibilities:
- Design and implement databases with high availability and resiliency in accordance to end users information needs and views
- Design and implement for fast recovery and backup of data
- Minimise database downtime and manage parameters to provide fast query responses
- Provide proactive and reactive data management support and training to users
- Determine, enforce and document database policies, procedures and standards
- Perform regular checks and evaluations to ensure data security, privacy and integrity
- Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required
- Electing features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
- Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
- Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
- Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
Qualifications:
- Proven working experience as a Database administrator and with some experience as a Data Scientist
- Hands-on experience with database standards and end user applications
- Familiarity with database design, documentation and coding
- Familiar with tools for creating rich visualisations, such as PowerBI, Tableau
- Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
- Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, Weka, NumPy, MatLab, etc
- Great communication skills
- Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL, Hive
- Experience with NoSQL databases, such as Cassandra
- Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
- Good scripting and programming skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent knowledge of data backup, recovery, security