Data Scientist South Kensington, England
Job description
Imperial College Business School’s strategic vision is to be a globally excellent business school that ranks among the best in the world. The IDEA Lab plays a critically important role in achieving this vision by building new capabilities in online, blended and hyflex delivery, implementing advanced analytical tools to understand and improve student learning and engagement, and pioneering new technologies to cultivate an innovative learning experience for our students. The IDEA Lab is an area of competitive advantage for the school, maintaining our position as a world-leader in digital education and ensuring our reputation as a place for innovators and entrepreneurs.
As Data Scientist, you will support the Data Science team to ensure the quality and effectiveness of data usage through:
- Aggregating and cleaning data from multiple data files and sources.
- Interpreting datasets and provide ongoing feedback on insights derived from data.
- Implementing data science and machine learning models to make predictions from the data.
- Working closely with other teams to improve data management, modelling and best practices.
You will develop data insights and visualisations for educational, evaluation and research purposes. Working closely with stakeholders, you will define innovative approaches to learning analytics throughout all aspects of the student lifecycle.
The post supports the larger objectives of the IDEA Lab and the college-wide initiatives to deliver an improved student experience.
Duties and responsibilities
- Management of data, research datasets, and generate data extracts, overseeing access to the data and providing all the data-related support to the project team, and collaborators whilst abiding by the data regulations.
- support with scoping of data requirements to support the development of software systems, data integration and data retrieval activities through to the iteration, review and maintenance of data requirements and data models.
- ownership of data modelling projects (including developing relevant KPIs, timescales, reporting, etc.)
- support the data team and their stakeholders to interpret data, analyse results and create reporting mechanisms.
- responsible for the development of dashboards to interpret results and models to make predictions.
- explore and identify areas of interest, data black spots and data enhancement opportunities.
- update and contribute to the Business Glossary, capturing business logic across
Essential requirements
- Degree or equivalent, preferably a technical qualification or comparable
- Relevant and current hands-on experience analysing and managing data in a medium or large organisation covering infrastructure, data warehousing, software engineering, business intelligence and programming for data science
- Successful track record in the interpretation and classification of data
- Experience of identifying and undertaking data analysis within a complex technological environment, extracting meaningful insights from the data
- Knowledge of data science model creation and deployment
Further information
Candidates are required to complete an online application. CVs only will not be considered.
Should you require any further details on the role please contact: [email protected]
Documents
- Job Description - Data Scientist.pdf
