Data Scientist

Our employees are the source of our strength.

With the vision of being Turkey’s most valuable and most preferred industrial company, we would like you to help us grow!

We are looking for a passionate, talented “Data Scientist” to join our Big Data & AI Team. As a data scientist, you will be responsible to provide actionable business insights that will drive revenue, reduce cost, lead automotive data journey and improve customer experience. You will be working with a community of colleagues across technology and business functions.

Location is based on Sancaktepe/İstanbul with hybrid working model.

Description:

The Data Scientist understands the business need/requirement and supports decision making with data science and statistical analysis, using wide ranges of data available to them. Working with the business owners the Data Scientist ensures business questions are answered through the interpretation of data and provision of analytical models. Typically reports to the Chapter Lead.

Your Place in the team:

• Building machine learning models for Ford Otosan’s manufacturing and automotive challenges

• Bringing and investigating data from different systems, structured and unstructured, both batch and real time, to discover hidden relationships, correlation and useful informations

• Converting complex datasets into key strategy insight and powerful capabilities to the business

• Identifying new data sources and evaluate emerging technologies for data discovery usage

• Presenting the results to technical and non-technical audiences

• Identifying new analytics trends and opportunities to drive the innovation agenda across Ford Otosan

We are looking for you if you have:

• BSC/MSC/Ph.D. degree in quantitative fields like Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Engineering or Industrial Engineering (MSc or Ph.D. in Machine Learning is preferred)

• Minimum 2 years experience in developing, implementing and maintaining Machine Learning /AI models and Optimization Algorithms

• Familiar with the Big Data Analytics landscape and related technologies, especially Hadoop, HDFS, Hive/Impala, Spark (PySpark), Kafka

• Very good SQL knowledge

• Hands-on experience with coding using Python and experience in Python Data Analysis libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn and PySpark

• Being worked with at least some of the data visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerBI or Python’s matplotlib

• Being worked with Predictive Maintenance models, Clustering/Propensity models and Optimization Algorithms

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present technical results to non-technical audiences

• Curiosity, creativity, and an empirical mindset

• Being detail-oriented

When You Start Your Career In "Ford Otosan";

• We have hybrid working model and you can enjoy being part of an agile team.

• You'll become a member of Koç Pension Foundation

• You and your loved ones will enjoy the benefits of KoçAilem

• You'll choose the side benefits with Flextra

The only criterion evaluated in the recruitment and employment is suitability for the job; equal opportunity is provided without any discrimination.

What About Us?

Ford Otosan, being one of the top three exporting companies in Turkey since 2004, has achieved 13 consecutive years of automotive industry championship and is Turkiye goods product export champion for 9 years in a row. Ford Otosan operates in 4 main centers with its Gölcük and Yeniköy Plants in Kocaeli, Eskişehir Plant in Eskişehir, Sancaktepe R&D Center and Spare Parts Warehouse in İstanbul and Craiova Plant in Romania employs more than 20,000 people. Kocaeli and Eskişehir Plants are listed among Ford's 'Best Vehicle Production Centers' and Eskişehir is the only factory in Turkiye that can produce vehicles, engines, and powertrains in the same center.

Ford Otosan, standing out with its sensitivity regarding social responsibilities, also carries out several social responsibility projects in many fields including education, healthcare, culture, arts, and sports on “Future. Now” vision. Ford Otosan, also carrying out awareness studies on gender equality since 2013 with the understanding of "Equality at Work", became the only automotive and the first and only industrial company from Turkiye to be included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index in 2021.

The building blocks of our new corporate culture, which we call “Dynamic Balance”, our values are mutual trust and respect, value each other and affection, openness to change and innovation, open and transparent communication.

A common culture brings us to a common sense and purpose, helps us to work in a positive atmosphere of trust, ties us closer and helps us to reach a stronger future all together.