Data Scientist at uLesson Education Limited

At uLesson, we are building an app to help African students be the absolute best they can be. Our team of talented people is passionate about media, technology, education, and the African continent. Together, we seek to build a learning experience unprecedented in its richness, scope, interactivity, and effectiveness. Our company is built by successful and experienced entrepreneurs who founded businesses such as Konga.com and E-Motion Advertising.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Abuja

Summary

• We are looking for a talented, experienced and data-driven candidate who is passionate about media, technology, education, and the Africancontinent, to join our team.

Overall Function

• We are looking for a talented, experienced and data-driven candidate who is passionate about media, technology, education, and the Africancontinent, to join our team.

Key Responsibilities

• Overseeing the implementation of a data warehouse and also the deployment process of data to the data warehouse
• Support the implementation of data science & analytics in line with Company strategy and milestones and analytics vision
• Employ sophisticated analytical methods, machine learning and statistical methods to prepare data for use in predictive and prescriptive modelling.
• Design, develop and deploy statistical and mathematical models to solve critical operational business problems
• Cooperate with the product department to deploy software and hardware upgrades that make it possible to leverage big data use cases.
• Review and validate customer data as it’s collected. Extracting huge volumes of structured and unstructured data.
• Query structured data from relational databases using programming languages such as SQL. Gather unstructured data through web scraping, APIs, and surveys.
• Maintain analytics tools capability catalogs
• Serve as in-house expert on available visualization & analytical tools i.e. features, capabilities and best practices
• Thoroughly clean data to discard irrelevant information and prepare the data for pre processing and modelling.
• Develop policies and procedures for the collection and analysis of data.
• Create or discover new data procurement and processing programs.
• Solving business problems through undirected research and framing open-ended industry questions.
• Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) to determine how to handle missing data and to look for trends and/or opportunities.
• Discovering new algorithms to solve problems and build programs to automate repetitive work.
• Communicate predictions and findings to the management and product department through effective data visualizations and reports.
• Recommend cost-effective changes to existing procedures and strategies.
• Monitor analytics and metrics results.
• Continuously review customer files to ensure integrity of data collection and utilization.
• Perform data profiling to identify and understand anomalies

Reporting Line:

• The successful candidate will report to the Vice President, Distribution and Marketing
• You will work closely with our Marketing & Sales team, Finance, Operations, Customer Service and Product & Technology team

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Maths, Statistics, Computer Science or other relevant discipline
• Understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics concepts;
• Proficient in Python, SQL, Scala, Java, R, MATLAB.
• Data visualization and reporting with: Tableau, SAS, D3.js, Python, Java, R libraries, Looker.
• 5+ years working experience in Data Science or Analytics (experience at a tech/e-commerce organization is a plus).
• Experience with statistical modeling for predictive analytics
• Experience working with large datasets
• Experience designing and implementing complex analytical models
• Experience with Machine Learning algorithms and techniques
• Experience creating informative data visualizations
• Understanding of sampling techniques;
• Working knowledge of big data platforms: MongoDB, Oracle, Microsoft Azure, Cloudera, Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of risk analysis, statistical analysis and maths, data warehousing and structures, data mining, cleaning and munging.
• Effective Communicator.

Compensation
Salary is competitive (N400,000 - N700,000 monthly). 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their current CV telling us a bit about yourself to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.