Data Scientist Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
Checkit uniquely combines smart sensors and workflow software to provide the analytics and insights that complex organisations need to deliver a safer, more efficient and streamlined service to their customers. Our clients are spread across the healthcare, biopharma, assisted living, food service and facilities management sectors.
Every day tens of thousands of data points enter the database, which require organising, interrogating, analysing and interpreting, so we can present our customers with meaningful insights they can use to inform business decision-making.
As our first Data Scientist, you will create and develop the methods we will use to analyse and present this complex data, using your knowledge of data visualisation techniques and tools such as PowerBI. In addition you’ll query multiple systems such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL and the AWS tech stack to develop algorithms that support large data analysis and produce predictive models. This is a good opportunity for a Data Scientist who is looking for a chance to build up the structures and capabilities of a scaling company, while also getting heavily into the analytics, helping customers to understand what their data means and how it can be used to support operational efficiency. As a Data Scientist with previous experience of this kind of work, you’ll also be used to dealing with internal teams to roll out data models at speed and enhance how we collect and manage our data.
What you'll be doing
- Leading Checkit’s data analytics work, creating and producing meaningful and insightful reports to help our customers understand their data, and to inform their business decision making.
- Working collaboratively with the wider technology team and wider business to design and deploy accepted data models at speed.
- Evaluating and developing insights into large and diverse data sets from sensors, workflow management platform and alert data.
- Providing technical advice on potential approaches within sprint planning sessions.
- Working with domain experts across teams to enhance our use of available data.
- Supporting Checkit in developing a data led culture and demonstrating the value of data.
- Using a wide range of data analytics techniques to help solve business problems, mainly looking at customers and solving their pain points.
- Working closely with Engineers, Sales, and Product Managers to ensure the right data to produce relevant business insights is collected.
What we're looking for
- No formal academic, postgraduate or professional qualifications are required for this role, however any qualification in a relevant subject such as mathematics, statistics, computer science or engineering would be advantageous.
- Strong previous experience as a Data Scientist.
- Proven knowledge of programming skills and database knowledge.
- Expertise in Data visualisation/validation and machine learning, including good knowledge of data visualisation software, particularly PowerBI.
- Database experience, ideally AWS tech stack, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL
- Experience with integrating various other public/proprietary datasets is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding and implementation experience of predictive modelling algorithms such as regressions, time series, clustering and decision trees.
- Experience in Product analytics, including understanding of how to track the performance of new features, and what metrics should be applied.
- Ability to analyse data to drive actions.
- Familiarity dealing with trade-offs between model performance and business needs.
What's in it for you
Checkit offer a range of benefits designed to give you the opportunity to learn and develop your skills, provide for your future, look after your routine healthcare, and feel protected if life throws you a curve ball. Our benefits include:
- Everyone gets a generous amount of leave, above the statutory levels, to help you rest and recharge
- Your birthday off in addition to your annual leave allowance
- 2 mental wellbeing days off per year, to take the time to reset and look after yourself
- Life insurance at 4x your basic salary
- Up to 20 paid sick days in any rolling 12 month period
- Income protection insurance to pay your wages if you need extended time off work due to illness
- Health cash plan to help with the costs of optical, dental and support for your mental wellbeing
- Access to Help@Hand health & wellbeing app
- Contributory pension scheme
- Share award scheme, allowing you to be rewarded for our future success
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and paid loss of pregnancy leave
- Up to 60 days “work from anywhere” per year, allowing you to work from overseas
- Unlimited access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning, and Pluralsight for tech roles
In addition, we have a remote-first, work-where-it-works culture, meaning that in this job, you’ll be able to work from home for the majority of the time, going to one of our offices in London, Cambridge or Fleet only when you need to collaborate with your team.
About Checkit
Checkit optimises the performance of people, processes and physical assets with connected digital solutions. We help companies with remote, deskless workforces to schedule, manage and analyse the activities of their teams to deliver improved productivity, engagement and cost savings. Via digital assistants that provide guided workflows, powerful dashboards that provide insights into critical activities and bring dark operations to light, and smart sensors that monitor critical assets and building facilities, we give leadership teams the ability to schedule and plan activity, and know what is happening as it happens, while making life much easier for their teams at the frontline. These real-time workflow, monitoring and analytics services enable safe and productive work, efficient operations and data-driven insight to continually improve performance in large, complex organisations.
We work across four main sectors – healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences and biotech; facilities and building management; retail; and hospitality. We help our customers with challenges as diverse as keeping vaccines at the correct temperature; reducing stock loss and waste for food retailers; reducing time spent on audit and compliance; repurposing tens of thousands of working hours previously spent on tasks we now automate; and monitoring best practice and care quality. Our clients include many NHS trusts, BP, Waitrose / John Lewis Partnership, Sodexo, Hallmark Care Homes and Center Parcs.
Checkit is a publicly traded business headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with its operations centre in Fleet, UK and a US operation based out of Tampa, Florida. We currently have over 185 employees and are growing rapidly.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
