Junior Data Scientist

Junior Data Scientist
First Engineers, Norway

Experience
1 Year
Salary
0 - 0
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Jul 31, 2021
Last Date
Aug 31, 2021
Location(s)

Job Description

About Xeneta

At Xeneta, we are a group of diverse individuals working together to transform the global shipping and supply chain industry. We have a positive and supportive culture built by people from more than 30 different nationalities. We stick together, we respect each other; we are one. We love to learn and get better every single day, and have fun doing so. Xeneta is headquartered in Oslo, and we have been continuing our growth with offices in Germany and the US.

Through our SaaS platform, we focus on bringing transparency to the container shipping and airfreight market and strive towards becoming the global reference point for ocean and air freight pricing. We have amazing customers including big brands like Unilever, Electrolux, Continental, Puma, Nestlé, and ThyssenKrupp.

We are proud of our achievements and were named one of the hottest tech scale-ups in Norway by TheNextWeb in 2019, Gartner Cool Vendor' in 2018 and Norway's 'Startup of the Year' in 2016.

As part of the data science team you will build high-impact data products and algorithms to supercharge the understanding of our data, improve the data quality, data ingestion, and answer questions we did not know even existed; enabling trust and transparency, automation, intelligence-based decision making, and an overall data-driven culture across the entire value chain.

What you will be doing

As part of our Data Science team, you will be responsible for the following:

  • Perform complex data analysis and reports, communicate insights tailored to different audiences, and make recommendations based on your findings that contribute to company strategic decisions
  • Work with product managers, data analysts, business representatives, and other stakeholders to understand their problems and design solutions
  • Automate data extraction of raw data from multiple sources so that it can be ingested, analyzed and mined for insights
  • Contribute to our data-driven culture and community by sharing your knowledge and expertise with the team and with the company

Who you are

  • You are a team player, you enjoy learning and improving the team around you and yourself
  • You have a strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, curiosity, and daring when venturing into unknown territory
  • You have interest in both building things and extracting insights from data using scientific methods
  • You are able to communicate and empathize when trying to understand problems, needs, and desires of stakeholders
  • You have a keen eye for detail
  • You have a get things done attitude

Requirements

  • A higher education degree within a technical/engineering field or quantitative fields, like computer science, physics, economics, statistics, mathematics,or a related field
  • Experience with SQL
  • Experience with Python or R
  • Fluent in English, oral and written

Not sure whether you're the perfect fit? Give it a try regardless - we love to hear from interesting people! Be sure to give us an idea of who you are as a person Not just your professional experience.

Nice to have

  • Knowing how to apply different algorithms to solve different problems - whether it’s linear regression or random forests
  • Having a general understanding of biases in data
  • Experience from analyzing pricing data
  • Experience with AWS

Benefits

What we offer

  • You will be a part of a growing company that is transforming a backbone industry of the global trade. Your work will impact how the deals are made in the established, important market that is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
  • You will work together with highly-motivated colleagues that are curious to learn something new from you, and also to teach you what they are good at.
  • You will enjoy our generous vacation plan: 5-10 extra paid days off around public holidays throughout the year, in addition to 5 weeks of paid vacation.
  • You can educate yourself during work hours: you can spend several hours each month attending courses, reading books or trying new tech in a side-project. We will cover courses, books and conference fees for you.
  • We value work-life balance, and we want to make sure you can spend quality time with your family or enjoy your hobbies when your work-day is over.
  • We have flexible working hours (core time with meetings is 10:00 to 15:00, the rest is up to you) and you can work remotely for extended periods of time when needed.
  • We will help you grow your career: our managers will help identify areas of improvement for you, either if you want to grow into a specialist in your field, or if you want to eventually go into leadership / management direction.
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First Engineers

Information Technology and Services - Oslo, Norway
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