Senior Data Scientist - Core Products

Job Description

About the business: At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation. You can learn more about Cirium here: https://www.cirium.com

About the Role: The Senior Data Scientist will lead R&D on our core products, support customer discovery, and production & delivery across a wide portfolio of projects, working to deliver on Cirium’s vision to be the world leader in aviation analytics and power every decision connected to aviation.

Responsibilities:

• Working across the Cirium business departments and directly with our customers where appropriate
• Using your expertise in data analysis, statistics, and machine learning, you will build and deliver high-value analytics products to our customers
• Contributing your expertise to lead on and deliver projects, inform best practices across our department, and support skills development across the team
• Showing initiative and taking ownership and responsibility for projects you are leading, delegating tasks where needed to the wider team
• Engage regularly with Product and other internal stakeholders to ensure that we maintain agility, focus our efforts on the highest value initiatives, and are data-driven in our decision making

The focus of the role will work with data and product owners to innovate on our suite of core products to add more and exciting value to our customers. This includes innovating in areas such as Aircraft Analytics, Schedules, Traffic & Fairs, and internal AI-centric projects supporting our Data Research & Curation teams.

Requirements

• Significant experience working as a data scientist in a commercial setting
• Demonstrated track record of delivering analytics projects through R&D and discovery to production, with a clear understand of the Data Science & Machine Learning Lifecycle
• Excellent communication skills, able to work across departments, engage with senior leadership, and work directly with our customers
• Excellent commercial awareness, able to prioritise across several projects and to lead and coordinate larger initiatives
• Good Python and SQL skills, experience with the AWS stack, Spark, Databricks and/or Snowflake desirable
• Solid understanding of statistical modelling and machine learning algorithms, and experience deploying and managing models in production
• Experience with Aviation data sets is desirable.
• Very good data engineering skills, with the ability to manipulate and process data at scale

At Cirium we’re incredibly proud of our five employee created values for our organisation. The two that stand out for this role are “We team up” (make decisions together and grow) and “We Aim High” (solve problems that others can’t). If you want to be in a role that gives you daily opportunities to have high commercial impact, while using and developing incredible strategic thinking and analytical skills, then get in touch.