Data Scientist - Ad Campaign Performance

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Hybrid/Remote (UK Right to work) with Travel to London

Experienced Data Scientist working on a new initiative to build and deploy a modelling solution to predict & optimise advertising campaign performance as part of a productionised, customer-facing SaaS product. Ideally looking for experience in Media/Advertising sector or similar.

Experience - Must-haves:

  • Must have a number of years working commercially as a Data Scientist
  • Solid understanding of & real-world experience implementing data science & statistical principles - e.g. applied statistics, model selection, cross-validation, objective functions, hyperparameter tuning, continuous & discrete optimisation problems, etc.
  • Strong interpersonal skills & ability to explain data science principles with clarity to non-technical stakeholders when required
  • Extensive knowledge of Python programming principles including object-oriented programming, performance optimisation
  • Experience developing & deploying productionised Machine Learning applications on a cloud platform (GCP ideal, AWS & Azure also acceptable)
  • Experience with common Python packages for Machine Learning - examples include PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, scikit-learn, SciPy, NumPy, pandas, etc.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and its use for data preparation & feature engineering
  • Understanding of & practical experience with implementing MLOps principals - including automated model retraining, monitoring & deployment strategies
  • Some knowledge of containerisation & use of tools like Docker & Docker Compose

    Nice-to-haves (Mix of the following but not all essential):
  • Experience working with Google Cloud products for ML including Vertex AI Pipelines & BigQuery
  • Experience with dbt (data build tool)
  • Previous experience working with advertising data
  • Experience with FastAPI or other Python API frameworks
  • Experience with dashboarding tools such as Looker Studio, Tableau or PowerBI
  • Experience working on a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) application
  • Experience working with Kubeflow Pipelines
  • Experience developing on a Mac / Unix environment
  • Knowledge of CICD pipeline design & implementation
  • Experience modelling using GenAI, LLMs or neural networks in general
  • A/B testing experience / Statistical hypothesis testing experience

    Everybody is welcome
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