Data Scientist

IT Support

Ref: 42Wednesday 16 October 2019

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Are you an experienced Data Scientist searching for an exciting and challenging new opportunity on a project basis?  Would you be interested in working on complex public sector projects,  supporting the team in achieving and exceeding their delivery goals?  If this might be the exciting new opportunity for you,  then please contact me for further details.

Working on behalf of our government client,  we are currently searching for an experienced Data Scientist to support them to achieve delivery goals using their Data Access Platform.  Within this role,  we believe that you will work with the team to support the organisation to:
*manage migrations to DAP (CDME / SRE).
*manage specific deliverables involving Canceis,  SAS and integrations.
*support the team to deliver an automated processing system.


We anticipate that the successful applicant for this exciting new opportunity will hold responsibility for the following tasks and responsibilities:
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rovide subject matter expertise on data processing technology and the application of it (i.e. Cloudera Spark / Hive / HDFS etc) within the office.
*provide a frontline problem solving capability for issues that front-end users are experiencing.
*provide a guidance and advice service to teams;  for example spend a day / week with a team to support them.
*promote and enable good practice within the organisation's processing system.
*provide an on-demand data science service for the organisation to ensure key deliverables are expedited.
*work with Software Engineers and other team members to support the end-to-end processing solution a major project.

We believe that the successful applicant for this opportunity will have the following skills,  knowledge and experience:
*expert in Data Science techniques using R and / or Python.
*expert in utilising Spark for distributed computing tasks.
*familiarity with Cloudera toolset desirable (HUE,  Hive,  Impala,  Data Science Workbench,  HDFS,  Avro,  Parquet).

Should you feel that you possess the skills,  knowledge and experience to succeed within this exceptional opportunity for a project-based Data Scientist within challenging new projects with our government client,  then please contact me for further information and details.

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​IT Sector
£200.00 per day (7.5 hour working day).
PO15 5RJ