Role overview
Job Description
Animal Health IT Data Science and AI team is looking for a Data Scientist. Our team supports company's Animal Health business areas – research and development, manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, and animal monitoring – through data science and AI delivery. This role allows you to work on impactful data science products and collaborate with other data scientists and AI engineers, building a community that learns, challenges, and inspires each other. Our team is shaping the AH Data Science and AI strategy, serves as a DS and AI community facilitator and helps non-technical colleagues to mature their understanding of DS and AI.
What you'll work on
- Select appropriate analytical techniques and algorithms to best solve business challenges.
- Participate in choosing right tools infrastructure for data science projects.
- Write efficient and maintainable code following best practices in software engineering to implement data science algorithms.
- Provide precise and timely communication (both verbal and written) & collaboration with diverse stakeholders.
- Understand the context behind business decisions .
- Develop analytical models and data science solutions in R/Python, leveraging advanced techniques including simulations, optimization, and machine learning.
- Assess the output of analytical solution and interpret data to draw conclusions, identify options, and provide recommendations to stakeholders.
- Build and maintain knowledge on the data sources, the data quality and metadata.
- Recognize repeatable situations and suggest the appropriate level of automation of analytics.
What we're looking for
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