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Lead Data Scientist

Jet2 Travel Technologies

Maharashtra, India (Hybrid)

Lead Data Scientist

7 Months ago • 7-11 Years • Data Analyst • Undisclosed

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Job Description

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.

Must have:

Data Science Lead
Machine Learning
Big Data Tech
SQL & Python

Good to have:

Agile Framework
Cloud Platforms
Data Warehouse
Data Visualization

Perks:

Work From Home
Skill Enhancement

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.