Big Data Academy - Data Scientist "Contractor"

Role Purpose

Vodafone Egypt Big Data Academy is a ‎6-months program aims to provide data
science hands-on experience for fresh graduates by providing real use cases
with clear deliverables.

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Description**

As part of Big Data Academy , you will work alongside data scientists, big
data engineers, and business stakeholders. You will be responsible for
implementing and maintaining use case pipelines, and communicating results to
scientists, product managers, and customers.
Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of
products, services and offers. You will gain hands on experience with
Vodafone's huge volume of data and large-scale computing resources.

Required Criteria

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Experience in Big Data analytics & deployment of models and algorithms from large volumes of structured and/or unstructured data in a commercial /consumer environment


• Ability to test hypotheses from raw data sets, draw meaningful conclusions, and effectively communicate results verbally, in writing, and through effective visualization


• knowledge of Big Data technology (e.g. Hadoop, interactive SQL on Hadoop, NoSQL, Spark, R, etc)


• Statistical modelling expertise in various domains


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  Ability to work cross functional teams to translate business issues into potential analytics solutions
  Must have technical/ professional qualifications:

  
  


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  Proficient in statistical packages and ML libraries (e.g. R, Python SciPy and NLTK, Spark MLlib, etc)

  
  


• Familiar with leading visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Qlikview)


• Familiar with implementing data transformations and algorithms in common programming languages


• Strong communication skills with prior experience communicating analytics results to senior management