Python Job: Data Scientist ( Fixed term contract)

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Company

CarTrawler

Location

Dublin - Ireland

Job type

Full-Time

Python Job Details

CarTrawler is the leading B2B technology provider of the car rental and mobility solutions to the global travel industry. Our purpose is to drive successful partnerships. CarTrawler’s end-to-end technology platform expands our airline and travel partners’ offering to their customers, creating substantial ancillary revenue opportunities. We provide unrivaled breadth and depth of content worldwide, including car rental, private airport transfer, and ride-hailing services.

CarTrawler creates innovative, data-led solutions for some of the largest travel brands in the world, including United Airlines, American Express, EasyJet, Alaska Airlines, SWISS, Hotels.com, and Emirates. As a B2B company, we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build their brands, not our own.

For our people, they get to work in an indigenous Irish tech company, in healthy, high performing teams, solving interesting problems.

Introducing the Data Science team in CarTrawler

The Data Science team in Cartrawler are responsible for delivering incremental value across the business through the design and implementation of automated data-driveN solutions in areas such as pricing, recommendation, fraud....basically wherever data and automation can be used to drive improved business performance.

We have built a suite of in-house technologies to help us achieve these goals - MVT testing infrastructure, ML build pipelines, Cloud-based service to serve ML models to production real-time and many more – you will work with some highly talented people here!
Reporting to: Head of Data Science
What you’ll be doing day to day:
The essential functions of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Developing industry-leading data science solutions through:
  • Identifying detailed data requirements, sources, and structures to support solution development
  • Driving the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources
  • Determining the optimal data science methodologies and technologies to use to solve the problem at hand
  • Ensuring integrity of the data science solutions in terms of the underlying statistical and economic models and assumptions
  • Collaborating in the development and deployment of proposed solutions to a live environment and tracking the effects in real time
  • Devising statistically robust testing plans to validate effectiveness of solutions
  • Interpreting real-time feedback from deployed tests and using this to inform planning of next steps
  • Effectively communicate outputs to other team members and the wider business in a concise manner that can be understood by both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Keep up to date with the latest techniques, technologies and trends and identify opportunities within the business where they could be applied
  • Developing leading POCs to create break through solutions, performing exploratory and targeted data analyses
  • Learning from highly skilled colleagues

What background we’re looking for:
  • Undergraduate, Masters or Ph.D. in a relevant technical field, or 2+ years’ experience in a relevant role
  • Understanding of statistical modeling, algorithms, data mining and machine learning workflows
  • Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
  • Comfortable manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensional data from varying sources
  • Proficient with Python
  • Familiarity with relational (SQL) databases
  • Ability to create compelling visualizations and dashboards (using matplotlib, tableau, superset, plotly, ggplot)
  • Knowledge of revision control systems (git) and modern development workflows (feature branches, pull requests etc…)
  • Experience using more advanced ML libraries (tensorflow, theano, pytorch etc..) a plus

We are looking for someone who is able to demonstrate the following competencies: Is this YOU?
  • Strong passion for solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches
  • A flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision
  • Ability to work creatively and analytically in a fast-paced, problem-solving environment
  • Curious nature and natural desire to go beneath the surface of a problem - enjoy diving deep into the data to find an answer to a yet unknown question
  • Ability to apply statistical or data mining techniques to solve real problems
  • Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
  • Clear thinker who asks the right questions
  • Ability to create examples, prototypes and demonstrations to help management better understand the work of the team
  • The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in the study of quantitative analysis for an online business, and a passion for identifying and answering questions that help us directly influence company-level strategy, decision making and operational performance.
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Some of Our Benefits
Hybrid Working: Hybrid working at CarTrawler is a combination of office and remote working. Most of the time, people will have flexibility in terms of where they want to work.

Financial Wellbeing:
All employees from day one, whatever their role, are entitled to share options as part of our unique equity scheme offering, we also have an annual performance-related bonus, pension, income protection & life assurance.

Health: Premium VHI health insurance is provided for all team members, we have a dedicated team of Mental Health First Aiders, an Employee Assistance Programme, “Friday Unplugged” – last Friday of every month we have a half-day mental health break.

Leave: 25 days annual leave & 2 company days, as we know life often takes over, as it should! For these instances we offer all eligible team members paid maternity, adoptive, paternity, parents, and marriage leave

Development: We have a dedicated Talent Management Team and Development Framework “Thrive” which supports your professional and personal development throughout your CarTrawler career.

Environmental, Social, and Governance
You will be an ambassador of our culture and social and environmental credentials.

CarTrawler's Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Commitment

CarTrawler is fully committed to ensuring equal opportunities supported by an environment based on mutual respect, inclusion, and dignity at work for all our people. We welcome diversity, valuing the benefits it brings to the workplace. We have a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination of any kind.

The criteria with regards to decisions on positions and promotions are an individual’s ability, behaviors, and merit to perform in the role. To this end, CarTrawler strives to ensure that recruitment, employment, training, and promotion practices and policies do not directly or indirectly discriminate.

We are a purpose-led, values-driven company, with a focus on a culture of shared wins where relationships make the difference. We strive to foster a culture of continuous learning encouraging our people to invest in themselves to Thrive.

Accommodations
CarTrawler will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the interview process. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in any CarTrawler job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits of employment. Please let your recruiter know if you require accommodation OR contact us at [email protected]