Data Scientist Reading, England
Job description
Home based
What it's like to work at Landmark:
We're a friendly, dynamic and supportive team. We encourage passion, ambition and collaboration, both in our performance as a team and individually. New ideas are encouraged. We actively promote involvement in the development and direction of our products and services, as well as finding more efficient ways to work. We also love a good work social and team building events. As well as this we offer:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days' holiday, with optional 5 days unpaid leave per year
- Free parking
- Annual lifestyle allowance of £300 to put towards an activity of your choice
- Cycle to Work scheme and Gym Flex scheme
- Internal coaching/mentoring system throughout your time here
- Focus on training and career progression
- Family friendly policies
- Happy to talk about flexible working
The Opportunity
The Data Scientist will understand core products, services and offerings, identify critical data problems, design and implement data-driven approaches for quantitative analysis and solutions. You will be developing innovative algorithms and models for location/geospatial and address data to solve business problems. You will be searching through large data sets for usable information and creating reports, presentations and story maps for business users.
Your role will involve:
- Ensuring that the Address Quality team aways have a sufficient body of work by effective management of data.
- Analysis of large data sets to identify key structures and patterns in sector specific address sets.
- Implementation of automated address cleansing mechanisms, with the aim f obtaining an accurate address match using matching datasets.
- Applying automated test controls to large data sets, analyzing results and driving resulting issues to resolution.
- Manage and maintain effective communications with team, peers, internal Landmark management and external customers as required.
About You
To be successful as the Data Scientist you will be an effective communicator, who has the flair to liaise with both internal and external customers and suppliers (in person, phone and email) to drive projects forward.
You will also have/be:
- Proficient with database programming languages such as SQL, R or Python.
- Spatial analysis using GIS specialist software (e.g., FME, ESRI ArcGIS, QGIS)
- Building, managing and analysing large and complex reference datasets in relational database environments (e.g., PostGIS)
- Developing innovative algorithms and models for location/geospatial & address data to solve business problems (for example, address cleansing of customer data to provide an accurate address match)
About Us
Landmark Information Group holds a wide portfolio of market leading PropTech businesses that span an incredible range of markets and technology platforms across the sector. With well-known application suites, online services and massive national scale property data as well as premier geospatial datasets we are at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership in the industry.
We deliver award-winning solutions to estate agency, conveyancing, surveying, lender valuations, land asset management, environmental consultancy, and Government markets. This is a chance to join the business as we make major steps forward in leveraging the latest cloud and large-scale technologies to start bringing together the entire market to a unified platform.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
