Python Job: Data Science Intern

What’s Travelport?

Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We’re leading the change; we are the change.

We are on a mission to power the future of travel; come join us.

What does a great Data Science Intern do?

You would work on innovative data science product prototypes which would be enhanced and integrated into the Travelport systems in the future. You would work on building scalable and efficient data science models and algorithms for travel retail business problems. During your internship you would also learn about big data analytics, machine learning development, and automating machine learning processes for large scale deployment.

What kind of work will you be doing?

• Perform data cleansing/transformation, feature engineering, data visualization, and data mining using big data and open-source tools
• Uses scripting languages like Python and R to develop new insights from available data
• Uses various RDBMS and data tools for data manipulation, cleaning, and matching processes
• Delivers statistical and machine learning/predictive models from both internal and external data to provide solutions, insights, and new opportunities for business and product
• Effectively contribute to assigned projects by collaborating and learning from other data scientists and data engineers in the team

Who would do well in this role?

Studying for a relevant degree is always helpful, but more importantly we to see that you’re passionate, you have a desire to add value, take ownership of projects, innovate and be bold, all while working with autonomy and accountability.

• Students studies in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or any related field
• Passionate to develop solutions for complete data science problems using open-source technologies like Python, Spark, and R

Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you’re likely to succeed if you:

• Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work
• Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things
• Take responsibility and own your work
• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what’s been done before

These are just a few of our employee’s favorite benefits/perks…

Competitive base salary, annual bonus, private medical insurance, very generous holiday allowance (including all of Christmas to New Year and your birthday), life assurance, dental and vision insurance, restaurant & food vouchers, and more!

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.