Data Scientist at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic and talented data scientist to join a dynamic project team.
• The resource shall be responsible for analyzing large amounts of raw information to find patterns that will help improve our company.
• Your goal will be to help our company analyze trends to make better decisions.

What will you be doing?

• You will identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
• You will work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes.
• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.

What do You Need to be Considered for this Role?

• Proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst
• Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
• Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SQL, etc.) familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is a plus
• Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI) and data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop)
• Experience working with and creating data architectures.
• Experience in data mining
• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• Analytical mind and business acumen
• Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra).

Application Closing Date
15th November, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV (in Microsoft word), current and expected salary to: contact@gvapartners.com , umoe@gvapartners.com , idriso@gvapartners.com and folakemio@gvapartners.com with the Job title as the subject of the mail.