Data Scientist at Transquisite Consulting

Location Abuja, Nigeria would consider remote working

We’re looking for motivated data scientist to support our client’s innovative health system support and transformation projects. 

You’ll help collect, investigate, model and analyse data from a variety of national health and logistics systems Field develops, to produce insights which will shape our products, and ultimately the public health field at large.

Your job will involve exploring data from operational systems for managerial and product development insights, responding to customer requests for specific data extracts, and investigating data quality issues alongside our program team to help identify and diagnose potential system problems and opportunities.

You will be asked to develop basic models to support internal and external management and product development decisions, and will collaborate with their software development team in the development of analysis tools.
You will be working closely with their software, design and health program teams to provide integrated work which can create real impact at a national and international scale.

This is initially a 12-month full time contract position.

EXPERIENCE 

• 4+ years work experience in data analysis or related field, including considerable professional experience working in a team
• Professional experience in automated data analysis and manipulation for medium-large data sets
• Professional experience in statistical programming (Python, R or similar) and data querying and manipulation using SQL and Javascript
• Professional experience using basic statistics for data analysis and decision support (distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.)
• Experience working with nosql databases (preferably couchdb, elasticsearch)
• Experience producing data visualisations (D3.js, openLayers, etc)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to play multiple roles in a team
• Experience applying statistical machine learning techniques to real-world problems
• Scientific mindset, and proven ability to decompose and distil complex problems into clear testable components
• A deep curiosity about the live sources and implications of data
• Strong mathematical background including comfort with multivariable calculus and linear algebra
• High creativity and problem solving abilities
• Location: Abuja (remote will be considered)
• Language skills: English (fluent)

Preferable

• MS/BA/BS related to statistics, machine learning or comparable work experience
• Professional experience using Github as a primary source control system, and git-flow as a primary workflow
• Experience with business intelligence systems
• Experience with Unix environments and basic devops