Senior Data Scientist (Recommender Systems)

Xcede
London
9 months ago
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Xcede is thrilled to be partnering with one of the world's leading tech companies as they expand their Data Science team. With millions of customers using their products daily, data is at the heart of everything they do.

The Head of Data, a highly skilled Data Scientist with a track record of building exceptional teams, is now focused on assembling another world-class group of experts.

As part of this expansion, the company is looking to onboard a Senior Data Scientist with strong commercial experience in building Recommender Systems. Experience in designing and deploying Graph Models or Graph Neural Networks would be a significant advantage.

Responsibilities

Work with senior colleagues and internal stakeholders to spot business opportunities to leverage data science techniques and add business value.
Build relevant statistical / machine learning models-related projects.
Build RecSys / Recommendation Engines / Recommender Systems / Recommendation Systems
Communicate findings effectively to stakeholders to encourage adoption.

Requirements

A STEM / Computer Science degree (ideally MSc and above but all backgrounds considered).
Excellent Python skills.
Strong Machine Learning & Statistical knowledge
Commercial Recommendation Engine experience
Software Development best practice approach (CI/CD experience, etc.)
Graph Neural Networks / Knowledge Graph experience.

If this role interests you and you would like to learn more, please apply here or contact us via (feel free to include a CV for review).

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