UBS - Data Scientist

Location: Singapore
Business sector: Data Analytics
Job reference: 612074
Published: over 1 year ago
You'll be working in the Emerging Solutions team in Singapore, which is a subgroup of the Group Internal Consulting unit . We are a dynamic and diverse team of consulting professionals with focus on emerging technology driven business transformation.

Your team helps UBS business functions to implement their digital strategy and accomplish their ambitions in the areas of emerging technologies. Emerging Solutions team is at the intersection of business, technology and innovative thinking in practice. We accompany functions across all businesses to build a sustainable transformation; combining the power of emerging technologies with a profound understanding of UBS businesses. The team works in in close collaboration with the different functions, business divisions and external parties to achieve its goals.

What You'll Be Doing
  • Support the design of AI/data analytics solution architecture and work with Business and Technologies stakeholders to come up with implementation roadmap
  • Develop Proof of Concepts using AI/data analytics technology
  • Support AI/data analytics solution implementation and deployment
  • Develop machine learning solutions in Natural Language Processing (NLP), document classification, Named Entity Recognition (NER), topic modelling, document summarization, computational linguistics, advanced and semantic information search, extraction, induction, classification and exploration
  • Develop, maintain and deploy ML Pipeline and models with high performance, quality, and stability
  • Build awareness and assess opportunities for new technologies to maximize the value/impact of the function
  • Build trust and strong working relationships with Business and Technology stakeholders
  • Push forward the capabilities and performance of the team to strengthen and expand the service offering of the unit in alignment with business needs

Skills You'll Need

  • Experience in programming skills such as Python, R, Spark and familiar with software development methodology
  • Experience in developing digital solutions by applying advanced analytics, machine learning or deep learning technologies, in areas such as customer analytics, product recommendation, text recognition, natural language processing etc.
  • Familiar with machine learning model development workflow and good understanding of data exploration, data processing, and feature engineering techniques.
  • Experience in deploying machine learning models and solutions into a cloud platform, such as Azure, AWS etc.
  • Experience in any of the following tools is a plus: Alteryx, DataIku, DataRobot, Tableau, MicroStrategy etc.
  • 5+ years of full-time experience working at a global tech or business consulting firm with a focus on digital transformation and emerging technologies
  • Exceptional academic track record with an advanced degree
  • Excellent written and spoken English skills, other languages a plus
  • A strong team player and communicator, able to adapt and network across a global organization to work well with the team and to present well to stakeholders