Responsibilities and tasks: 

• Solve business problems using advance Machine Learning and statistical techniques
• Identify opportunities to add value and solve problems using Machine Learning across the business
• Identify bottleneck in skills, technology and processes restricting the team’s ability to deliver excellence
• Exploring vast datasets, both structured and unstructured
• Owning the final solution; coordinating with different teams including engineering and client side teams to take a solution from exploratory analysis to deployed in production.
• Facilitate taking solutions into production, though active participation with the internal development teams
• Spec the requirements to solve a problem and identify the critical path and timelines and be able to give clear estimates quantifying any uncertainty
• Resolve issues and find improvements to existing Machine Learning solutions and measure their impacts
• Takes data-driven approaches to validate assumptions/issues and track progress on changes being implemented

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima: 

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics or equivalent.
• Minimum of 3+ years experience in developing solutions with at least 2+ years using Machine learning Algorithms in industry.
• An in-depth understanding of a wide range of Machine Learning techniques, and an understanding of which approach is best suited for the problem at hand (structured and ill-structured)
• Strong statistical analytics skills demonstrated through data engineering or similar experience.
• Understanding of python programming when building both applications and scripting simple solutions.
• A drive to not only identify a solution to a technical problem but to see it all the way through to inclusion in a product.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and time management skills

Good to have (Technical requirements/ Previous experience)

• Significant experience with NLP techniques.
• Experience working with managing software vulnerabilities in a coding environment.
• An understanding of defensive coding practises.
• Experience with automating tasks to maximise time for more important problems.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar Rational Database.
• Experience with Data Visualisation experience (via Grafana, Superset, Tableau, or similar) is preferable.
• Be comfortable explaining very technical concepts to non-expert people.
• Experience of project management and designing processes to deliver successful outcomes.