Lead Data Scientist

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Life At Planet

Do you love putting smiles on faces? Do you want to work in an environment that is obsessed with making customers and employees happy? Do you want to be part of a global mission to revolutionise commerce and payments? Do you want to be working in a progressive organisation with the ambition to be the global player in what we do? If you do, then this role could be for you…

Here at Planet we are extremely proud of our heritage of over 30 years. And it is what makes us a unique payment partner for many of the world’s most prestigious brands. We don’t just provide world class commerce and payment services, we generate revenue for our customers, and we help them grow. In the early days, we set out to simplify the complex payment process of VAT refunds for international shoppers in Europe. Fast-forward to today, and our single payments platform is unique in the industry – the only one that offers acquiring, processing, digital wallets, VAT refunds and currency conversion services. We have recently integrated several other tech businesses – Protel, Hoist, Datatrans, Proximis – to help us to continue to grow and dominate the market as we set about our mission of being a world leader. And with strong Private Equity Investors from Advent International and Eurazeo, we are well set up to win.

We know that it’s our people that differentiates who we are and what we do…and that is why we are keen to hire world class talent like you.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Lead Data Scientist to analyze large amounts of raw information to find patterns that will help improve our company.

In your role it will be required to perform exploratory data analysis over large sets of structured and semi-structured data with the objective to find opportunities for data oriented products or process optimization, as such the right candidate will require to have the passion, knowledge and high critical thinking to help planet drive the business.

What you’ll be doing

• Hire, manage, and coach a team of Data Scientists
• Strong leadership, vision and passion to build and drive a Data Scientists team to create changes in business partnerships, analytics, and metrics/reporting
• Supports the technical work delivery in Product release cycles to achieve effective utilisation of team resources
• Making sure that team processes and best practices are followed
• Working closely with stakeholders, maintaining a clear and continuous communication about status and expectations
• Proposing solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Building predictive models
• Building machine learning models
• Exploring data for trend and patterns detection
• Collaborating with engineering teams to deliver data oriented products

Who you are

• Proven experience as a Data Scientist (2 years minimum)
• Knowledge in feature engineering
• Knowledge in machine learning methodologies
• Knowledge in big data frameworks (Spark, Hadoop or others)
• Knowledge in math and statistics
• Knowledge on how to assess the accuracy of models
• Knowledge on how to perform hyper parameter tuning
• Able to develop A/B testing on models
• Experience in Python or equivalent
• Experience with machine learning frameworks (Panda, Tensorflow or others)
• Experience in experiment management tools (Neptune, Comet, MLFlow or others)
• Experience on cloud computing is a plus (Sagemaker, Databricks or others)
• Fluent in English

What do we offer and why should you join us?
We don’t shy away from wanting to hire great people to deliver amazing things for our customers. And once you join us, we want to keep you motivated and engaged in our collective mission.

Competitive Pay
We don’t want you to worry about your pay and wonder if you can have it better someplace else. We follow the market and evaluate salary benchmarks through the year to make sure any salary increases remove any worries and keep you satisfied. We review pay annually to make sure we are paying you what you’re worth.

Growth and skills
We know that for some it’s about growing into more senior and exciting roles, and for others it’s about becoming a deep technical expert. No matter what your ambition, we are with you all the way. We know that investing in you is the way to keep skills relevant and you motivated.

Flexible working
Work from home? Work in the office? Have family and life commitments that mean you need flexibility? What we care about is what you deliver not where you work nor the hours you work. We know flexibility matters and that’s why we offer the flexibility that suits you and your lifestyle.

An array of people
We know that to win, our workforce needs to reflect the world in which we live and the customers we serve. We are proud that we have a culture where everyone and anyone can bring their whole selves to work.

Ready to meet us?

We hope this role sounds exciting and could be your next step. If so, we’d love to meet you – click the button to apply. Go on. Make our day.