Data Scientist

Job description

·  Job Description:

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. The company’s technology independence, global talent and extensive partner alliance combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is recognized among the best corporate citizens globally.

The Newcastle Digital Transformation Center (DTC) offers Agile Delivery to multiple Clients.

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who is always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology? If your answer is yes, you are going to fit right in with our team. We are looking for a passionate, motivated, innovative team player with a technical aptitude and thirst for learning and problem solving, who would like to be part of our vision in helping clients transform their business.

Our technical roles offer you the chance to grow your skills and experience whilst working alongside some of the most talented people in DXC .    

Our Client has been working with DXC on ways to advance and scale their analytics talent, innovation and compute globally.  In addition they have been exploring ways to leverage DXC experience, methods and management to improve and accelerate business outcomes. 

DXC and our Client are trying to scale to meet unmet business and digital transformation demand from the clients operating units around theworld.  Thereforethey are looking for a partner and talent model framework which goes beyond, and delivers more value. They want to innovate on digital solutions(develop/deploy/support)and strengthen theiranalytics foundational capabilities. They want our

Help to optimize utility costs for analytics workloads.

A Data Scientist is responsible for delivering value and insights from the data and for helping companies on their journey to become data driven. Data Scientist scope can range from ad-hoc analysis of customer data and BI dashboards to state of mission critical state of the art deep learning AI product that are deployed in production

Responsibilities include:

·  Identifying and defining the scope of data science products
·  Defining technical approach, data and algorithms needed
·   Building out the data product from POC to production ready ststem
·  Communicating value, insight, possibilities and limitation of Data Science product for customer and internal stakeholders

Skills and Experience

•    Knowledge on a range of Machine Learning and AI techniques (e.g. supervised and un-supervised machine learning techniques, deep learning, graph data analytics, statistical analysis, time series, geospatial, NLP, sentiment analysis, pattern detection, etc.)
•    Experience using Python, R or Spark to extract insights from data
•    Knowledge of SQL for accessing and processing data

•    Experience using the latest Data Science platforms (e.g. Databricks, Azure Machine Learning, AWS SageMaker) and frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow, MXNet, scikit-learn)
•    Software engineering practices (coding practices to DS, unit testing, version control, code review)
•    Hadoop (especially the Cloudera and Hortonworks distributions), and streaming technologies (Kafka, Spark Streaming)
•    Deep understanding of datamanipulation/wranglingtechniques
•    Delivering insights using visualisation tools (such as Power BI, Qlick) or libraries

•    Experience building and deploying solutions to Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).Experience with containerisation and virtualisation (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, VMs etc.)

•    Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with clients to establish requirements in non-technical language.
•    Ability to translate business requirements into plausible technical solutions for articulation to other development team members.
•    Experience designing Data Science deliveries, planning projects and/or leading teams. Domain knowledge of one or more business sector

DXC Technology is committed to the development of a fully inclusive workforce. All applications for employment are assessed purely on merit, against the capabilities and competencies required for the role.

DXC Technology does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, race, faith or sexual orientation.