Professional Officer (Centre for Digital Enablement - Data Science)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver digital skills literacy related courses or workshops to undergraduate students and staff. Development of learning activities and assessment of students form part of the responsibilities.
• Monitor and manage undergraduate students’ learning progress using data analytics. 
• Provide consultations to undergraduate students and staff on digital skills/ technology related queries and access feasibility of potential project ideas
• Collaborate with faculty and corporate divisions on Living lab’s digital technology related projects and mentor students in the development of such projects. Examples of such projects include developing and implementing a Data Lake.  
• Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities for proof-of-concept projects that leverages on data to drive business solutions.
• Perform research on data science related scope
• Provide support in ad-hoc activities (i.e. promote awareness in digital literacy, data literacy etc)  
• Manage digital technology related resources within the division (i.e system administrator for software, hardware systems and equipment)

Job Requirements

• PhD/ Masters/ Bachelors in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Computing science from a recognized University, with 3-5 years relevant experience.
• Proficient in programming and experienced in several languages such as C, C++, java etc
• Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SLQ, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with application
• Keen interest to support academic project work, with demonstrated ability in developing software solutions to technical problems.
• Possess strong supervisory skills and project management skills
• Enjoy working with students in an educational environment.
• Demonstrate proficiency to stay up-to-date on emerging technologies.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work individually or in a team and with other divisions.
• Innovative mindset and passion in digital technology is required.