Data Scientist, Office of Strategic Management and Institutional Effectiveness

Reports to: Senior Director, Business Intelligence

Purpose: The job holder will help discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and helps make smarter decisions to deliver even better student experience. His/her's main focus will be in applying data mining techniques, machine learning and building high-quality prediction systems integrated with our data warehouse solution.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Build predictive models using supervised and unsupervised machine-learning techniques
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Extending the company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
• Designing, developing, improving and maintaining business intelligence solutions
• Presenting information through reports and visualization
• Collaborate with teams to integrate systems
• Developing and maintaining ETL processes
• Perform any other related tasks as assigned

Requirements:

Minimum Education Requirement(s): 

• Bachelor degree in computer science or relevant field

Experience:

• Minimum of eight years of experience including two years in related fields

Skills:

• Data-oriented personality
• An analytical mindset with problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, Weka, MatLab, etc {Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable}
• Great communication skills
• Experience with data visualization tools, such as PowerBi, tableau, etc.
• Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL
• Good scripting and programming skills

This position is open until November 25, 2019

Placement is based on the candidate’s experience and skills. Only candidates who make it to the shortlist will be contacted. If interested, send an updated and detailed resume to hr1@aucegypt.edu, stating “Data Scientist” in the subject line.

“We thank all individuals who have expressed interest in working at The American University in Cairo.”