Senior Specialist

Do you want to be involved in building the success of Aalto University?

Join the team of digi-era change makers!  

We are now seeking a

Senior Specialist (Data Scientist)

to develop Aalto's management information service to meet complex and ever-growing digital management challenges. In this role, you will be able to influence what kind of analyzed information is available to the management of the university and its departments. The rapid development of tools increases the need for in-house professionals that can help navigate and establish best practices for our community and stakeholders.

As a Data Scientist you will develop qualitative reporting and content analysis, various automated prediction and classification models by utilizing machine learning, NLP and statistical/mathematical methods. You will also design, develop and maintain databases, reporting templates and APIs.

You have

• Applicable University degree
• Strong expertise and hands-on experience in data mining and preparing/refining, creating descriptive analytics of the data, pseudo-/anonymizations as well as visualizing and publishing data for other analytics; (e.g. self-service analytics, scientific research and teaching)
• Statistics and/or Mathematics (e.g. algorithms, calculus, linear algebra)
• Python, NLP, SQL, JSON, XML
• ML frameworks & open-source libraries (e.g. Scikit-learn, Jupyter Notebook, Gensim, Tensorflow)
• Excellent written and spoken English

We also value

• Azure and/or R
• Finnish language
• We appreciate strong expertise, experience and versatility in Data Science and Analytics as well as experience in corresponding tasks in an international and multicultural environment.

We offer

• High-level professionals of data engineers and data analysts as colleagues
• Position in the heart of the development of the D&A of the University
• Supportive atmosphere and good working environment, modern tools and software, healthcare and well-being services
• Flexibility and many opportunities for organizing your own work
• Good opportunities for further development with e.g. Aalto's own courseware, external training providers, or with the help of your colleagues and the library of the University.

Ready to apply?

If you want to join our community, please submit your application through our recruitment site by using the link on Aalto University’s web page ("Apply”) by Sunday 3.10.2021. To apply, please share your motivation letter and CV with us.

If you wish to hear more about the position, you can reach out to Head of MIS Matti Apajalahti, [email protected] , or tel. 358 50 384 1730 (available on Wed-Fri 22.-24.9. at 11-17 and onThu-Fri 30.9.-1.10. at 11-17 local time). For questions related to the recruitment process, please contact HR Coordinator Kirsi Söderlund, [email protected] .

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