Hackajob is collaborating with Jet2.com to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We are pleased to open an opportunity for a talented Senior Data Scientist to join our Jet2 Data Science team for a fixed term of 12 months. Reporting to our Lead Data Scientists, you'll be responsible for the delivery of a key in-flight data science workstream capable of realising significant value, combining insights gained from multiple large data sources with the contextual understanding and experience of our colleagues across the business. You'll join a large and established team of Data Science professionals based across our UK and India bases, who are using Data Science to understand, automate and optimise key business processes. Our team works right across the broad range of our customer journey: from informing our marketing strategy, pricing our products, understanding our customers and their needs before, during and post their experience, and improving our airline and holiday operations.
Benefits
* Hybrid working (we’re in the office 2 days per week)
* 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
* Colleague discounts on Jet2.com flights and Jet2holidays packages
What You'll Do
* You’ll take responsibility for the initiative delivery, adopting our ways of working, being able to break down initiatives into measurable tasks, and report progress and escalating any issues.
* Working within a pod of Data Scientists under management of a Lead Data Scientist, you’ll execute the application of machine learning and statistical modelling tools suited to the identified initiative.
* You’ll be skilled at storytelling, being able to explain the generated solution to our stakeholders and produce recommendations on how the business can realise value from this work.
* You’ll have an awareness of and are adhering to the appropriate regulatory and internal policy requirements.
What You’ll Have
* You’ll be highly numerate with a statistical background, with strong expertise working in Python and with AWS provided platforms (e.g. Sagemaker) being highly desirable.
* Strong SQL skills, with exposure to Snowflake desirable, and the ability to create clear data visualisations in tools such as Tableau, will be essential.
* Demonstrable experience in delivering data science initiatives from concept into production would be highly desirable.
* You’ll be skilled in gathering data from multiple sources, in multiple formats, and cleansing and enriching that data.
* You’ll have an appreciation of the importance of data governance, and of how to assess and enhance the quality of our data.
* Given the pace of change in new technologies and techniques, you will show commitment to keeping your own knowledge up to date through self-learning, and be supported with opportunities to complete relevant training.
* You’ll also be given the opportunity to pass on your expertise to and coach our Data Scientists.
We are placing Data and Analytics at the heart of the business, and this Senior Data Scientist role is an exciting opportunity to work for an organisation with the objective of being truly data insight driven.
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