Data Scientist

Would you like to help a client's team unlock the unprecedented value an AI-driven solution generates? Are you an analytics consultant at heart who would love to work with the latest technologies to create & give modern prediction & decision tooling to business leaders?

As a data & AI agency, we help both industry frontrunners and analytics leaders advance their teams with confidence when applying data science, statistics, machine learning, and AI. With the ever-expanding possibilities of these revolutionary technologies, numerous questions arise. How can we effectively transform a complex business challenge into a forecasting and/or optimization challenge? What assisting tools can we use or create? How will it enable people in teams to work at their natural best?

We have been fortunate to work with a variety of teams in Europe, active in Retail and E-commerce, FMCG, Manufacturing, and Aviation, such as Maxeda/Brico, Eurocontrol, Vandevelde or Heineken, Beerwulf, Hornbach, Unilin, TVH and Landal. We worked on projects that combine our business acumen with expertise in data analysis, ML, AI, and statistics.

As a Data Scientist, your key responsibility is to ensure the creation of a superior level of business value by designing, creating, deploying & leveraging various AI/ML-driven algorithms and translating these into actionable insights. As you grasp the business objective of the client, each stakeholder's challenges, and the unique business environment, you subsequently ensure that the use of our AI-driven solutions creates a striking amount of business value, validated by said client. To this end, you help guide the setup of the solution, finetune it to accommodate client-specific needs, and train the client in using it. Along this journey, you act as a trusted advisor. You advise customers on some of the most challenging questions, be it tactical business decisions or mathematical design choices that influence how our technology performs.

In the said role, you work alongside other data scientists, data engineers, and product owners. As you mentor a client's team through unchartered territory, you share lessons learned with your team and provide input on how to improve our solutions.

🚀 What will be part of your responsibilities?

You ensure the creation of actionable, data & AI-driven insights, which create a superior level of business value by by understanding business context, creating business relevant predictive models and guiding the usage of these:

• You understand the business needs of our clients by participating in meetings and asking the right questions;

• Together with your team, you translate those business needs into an algorithmic approach, typically including AI-components;

• Together with the Data Engineering team, when the data connection with the client's system is set up, you import the data, interpret it, and transform it into a usable format, all the while keeping an eye out for abnormalities and things that can improve;

• You code & deploy data-driven solutions, based on the specific context of a client in a cloud-based environment and tune your solution to the client's precise needs. This requires you to look at everything with a critical eye and spot where problems and opportunities lie;

• You guide & train end-users of your solution, capturing feedback and co-design further iterations

• You act towards our clients as a trusted advisor in using data-driven solutions. More than just answering questions, you are expected to be proactive - challenging clients' beliefs if you believe they are unsound. You will become an expert, and they will need you to guide them through unfamiliar terrain.

🐱‍🚀 What skills are required or can be perfected on the job?

You have a BS or MS in Business, Economics, Computer Science, AI, Analytics, Data or Marketing Analysis, Maths, or Statistics (or equal based upon experience);

• You are eager to learn new things and thrive in a fast-growth environment;

• You are fluent in English and Dutch.

You are an analytics consultant at heart:

• You have a passion for using analytics to solve the most challenging business questions and create business value;

• You understand and have knowledge of standard data science principles & techniques;

• You have some experience as programmer in Python/PySpark, with a focus on  data-science software and packages;

• You are comfortable working in a Unix environment. Experience working with DataBricks is a plus that will help you get up and running in no time.

You are a business professional that can make one's mark:

• You understand business economics;

• You are a team player who loves to work in an agile/lean environment;

• Your communication skills are on point, both written and spoken. You especially love to translate numbers into a valid storyline and help the whole room understand what you are talking about.

🎁 Our offer

First off, you will become part of a steadily growing team of people keen on applying the latest technologies and techniques in data science, machine learning & AI. You will work in a vibrant, innovation-loving environment with the proper dash of geekiness and love for board games.

While you will be able to work both at the office or at home, your presence might also be required on-site with clients. Our offices in Ghent and Rotterdam are easy to reach, located in a colorful neighborhood of each city center, and close to a vast array of after-work shenanigans. 

How do you like to get to work? By car, train, and/or (e-)bike? Your choice to make! We provide an attractive salary package stuffed with additional benefits such as an (optional) company car & fuel card, (optional) bike plan, hospitalization insurance, state-of-the-art laptop, smartphone, and other gear.

We put a lot of time and effort into your personal growth and development as a technician and business professional. We provide dedicated feedback and coaching sessions to help you walk the career path you envisage. Expect your own talent development roadmap and the opportunity to showcase your knowledge to a broader engineering community.

On top of that, we do team trips, planned events, ad-hoc events, and anything really to ensure you shine within a thriving team.

🎳Up for the challenge?

Here is how we move forward. After applying, we'll screen your resume and may invite you for a phone interview. A job-specific challenge and presentation later, you could be the next member to represent our team!

Apply now!