Principal Data Scientist

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Effectively communicate the analytics approach and how it will meet and address objectives to business partners
• Advocate and educate on the value of data driven decision making focusing on the “how and why” of solving problems
• Lead analytic approaches, integrating work into applications and tools with data engineers, business leads, analysts and developers
• Expert in Developing data science capability and can advocate the importance of continuous learning to the data science team. knows how to develop data science capability across the wider organisation and in industry. Sets as a role model of best practice through demonstration of his own self-directed learning. You set the data science curriculum across the organisation.
• Create repeatable, interpretable, dynamic and scalable models that are seamlessly incorporated into analytic data products
• Ensure consistent and high quality data science standards and tools are deployed and developed within the organization
• Engineer features by using business acumen to find new ways to combine disparate internal and external data sources
• Share passion for Data Science with broader enterprise community; identify and develop long-term processes, frameworks, tools, methods and standards
• Collaborate, coach, and learn with a growing team of experienced Data Scientists
• provides leadership and direction across a programme of multidisciplinary data science projects, managing resources to ensure delivery.
• Recognised as a strategic authority with technical expertise in cutting-edge techniques, defining vision across the organisation
• Communicates with senior stakeholders and convince them of the strategic value of applying data science
• Stay connected with external sources of ideas through conferences and community engagements

AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:

• Thinking within broadly defined policies, standards and objectives. The determination of “what needs to be done” in applying polices is largely left up to the incumbent who must establish the plan, determine the priorities and prescribe the processes needed to achieve the objectives
• Subject to general direction and broadly defined functional policy objectives. Actions which will impact other functional or operating areas usually require approval before they may be implemented.