About the job
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Lead a data science team at Jet2TT, a UK-based airline and holiday operator. You'll leverage machine learning algorithms, R, Python, SQL, and data visualization tools to deliver impactful solutions. Experience leading mid-size teams and working with big data technologies is essential.
About the job
About J2TT
Jet2 UK’s largest airline and holiday operators.
At Pune, we have our innovation centre where we work on top notch technologies to develop products and provide services to our customers. Jet2TT is captive technology centre of Jet2.
Our amazing teams work in collaboration with UK colleagues in a fast paced and agile environment to develop, innovate and leverage the latest technologies to best in class software using state-of-the-art practices.
With a success story that stretches back over 40 years, more than 50 million customers have flown with Jet2.com. Jet2holidays is now the UK's second-largest tour operator, welcoming more than 3.1 million customers in the most recent year.
We have a devoted team of more than 11,000 colleagues across the UK and overseas, supporting the ever-growing demand of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays.
Our success lies in giving our customers a great experience.
Our ethics are strong. Our values help people drive change
Values
- Be Present
- Take Responsibility
- Create Memories
- Work As One Team
To know more about J2TT, please visit https://jet2traveltech.com/index.html
We’re Virtual
- Working virtual has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting.
- We are reimaging the tech workplace of the future by making a permanent transition to virtual work for most of our team
- Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success, we'll collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose
- Onsite opportunities may knock at your role
You’re an ideal candidate for us if...
- You consider yourself to be a student of the world who thrives in an ever-changing environment that holds within its new challenges and chances to prove your expertise.
- You level up when you have the opportunity to teach others and empower those around you to excel.
- Effectively translating business requirements into self-running software to automate and scale predictive models.
- Helping cross-functional teams to solve for business problems and develop solutions that enable us to redefine a “best-in-class” customer experience.
- Encouraging the project teams that you oversee to work collaboratively and to aim for insight-driven outcomes.
A Typical Day In Your Role At Jet2TT
- A lead data scientist would lead a team of data science team
- Lead will be responsible for delivering & managing day-to-day activities
- The successful candidate will be highly numerate with a statistical background, experienced in using R, Python or similar statistical analysis package
- Your ability to rise above group think and see beyond the here and now is matched only by your intellectual curiosity.
- Strong SQL skills and the ability to create clear data visualisations in tools such as Tableau or Power BI will be essential. They will also have experience in developing and deploying predictive models using machine learning frameworks and worked with big data technologies.
- As we aim to realise the benefits of cloud technologies, some familiarity with cloud platforms available for data science and storage would be desirable.
- You will be skilled in gathering data from multiple sources and in multiple formats with knowledge of data warehouse design, logical and physical database design and challenges posed by data quality.
- Demonstrable experience in cleansing and enriching of data, interpreting business requirements in terms of data architecture, database technology and data model design will also be key.
Qualifications, Skills And Experience (Candidate Requirements)
- Experience in leading small to mid-size data science team
- Minimum 7 years of experience in the industry & 4+ experience in data science
- Good understanding of the applied statistics & leverage machine learning algorithms
- Good understanding of various data architecture RDBMS, Datawarehouse & Big Data
- Rich experience of working with regions such as US, UK, Europe or Australia
- Liaise with the Data Engineers, Technology Leaders & Business Stakeholder
- Working knowledge of Agile framework is good to have
- Demonstrates willingness to learn
- Mentoring, coaching team members
- Strong delivery performance, working on complex solutions in a fast-paced environment
Why To Join J2TT
- Great work-life balance through permanent work from home arrangement.
- Skill enhancement, trainings and certification.
- Exciting reward and recognition programme.
- Global environment to work in collaboration with UK colleagues
- Opportunities to travel to UK
- Opportunity to bond with colleagues through exciting employee engagement initiatives.
- Great on the job learning opportunity through involvement in new product and ideation
- Health insurance
- Join our award-winning business
Interview Prep Guidelines
We at Jet2TT believe that interview process is a mutual opportunity for both parties to assess the suitability of forming a long-term bond.
As such, we feel that revealing the assessment process and evaluation/ scoring themes in advance would give you the best chance to prepare and be successful in the interview process.
For this role, please see some pointers below.
- We will assess you 3 themes – technical skills, smartness and cultural fitment
- Cultural fitment – our probe will cover the following aspect
- Attitude, especially to understand your motivations and behaviours in the fast-paced ecosystem
- Your approach to working with colleagues and customers
- Your approach to dealing with adversity
- Your career aspirations and your plans to achieve these aspirations.
- Smartness - our probe will cover the following aspects
- Confidence exhibited throughout the interview process
- Clarity of thoughts and deftness in articulation of thoughts
- Ability to handle pressure
- Skills – our probe will cover the following aspects
- Thorough understanding of recent/previous project.
- Knowledge of new trends and technology
- You might be asked to design, write or review code. So, please have access to machine with right software