Data Scientist (Hybrid)

Data Scientist (Hybrid) 

  

At EY Consulting Service Line, we support you in achieving your unique potential both personally and professionally. We give you stretching and rewarding experiences that keep you motivated, working in an atmosphere of integrity and teaming. And while we encourage you to take personal responsibility for your career, we support you in your professional development in every way we can.  

  

The opportunity 

Our EY Consulting ambition is to become the world’s leading transformation consultants, trusted to help our clients generate long-term value. We’re building world-class capabilities in business, technology and people consulting to help us deliver on EY’s purpose of building a better working world — our firm’s broader ambition to become the world’s most trusted, distinctive professional services organization. 

 

Our clients are at the heart of our new strategy. We’re focused on solving the key issues of our client buyers, building deeper relationships, and making a greater impact. We’re introducing a new go-to-market narrative — Transformation Realized™ — to help us harness the core drivers of transformation that will create long-term value for our clients. 

 

To achieve this, we are seeking for Data Scientist to join our Transformation Realized™ Consulting practice. Our team is part of EY’s Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe & Central Asia (CESA) cluster, delivering market leading services to organizations across industries in Cyprus and internationally.  

 

The transformation imperative is urgent, challenging and opportunity-rich, interested to join us? 

 

 

Your Key Responsibilities 

• Design and develop AI models as well as formulating associated algorithms and rules. 

• Obtain, analyse and understand AI models training data.  

• Clean data and validate its completeness and correctness.  

• Preprocess data using programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, etc.  

• Compute features and tune parameters to improve the quality of the model in an iterative manner. 

• Evaluate alternative solutions options and present recommendations to the project stakeholders. 

• Closely coordinate and communicate with project manager advising them on matters relating to the delivery of the data science.  

• Work with a broad spectrum of client business and technical stakeholders.  

• Train & enable clients on the use of the delivered AI solutions. 

• Contribute to the practice development of the organization.  

 

To qualify for the role, you should have 

• Between 1 to 7 relevant years of experience as a Data Scientist. 

• MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics or related field.  

• Proficient in Machine Learning (training and testing, avoiding overfit, feature engineering etc.).  

• Knowledge of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop and related.  

• Proficiency in bash, Python and either Java or Scala.  

• Knowledge of statistics or data visualization is a plus.  

• Knowledge of tree-based algorithms (Random Forests, XGBoost, LGBM) is a plus.  

• Knowledge of Deep Learning algorithms is a plus.  

• Analytical mindset: critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources. 

• Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audience. 

• Customer-facing attitude 

 

Ideally you should also have 

• Experience within the financial services sector 

• Experience working within a startup culture 

 

What working at EY offers 

EY offers an attractive remuneration package for rewarding both personal and team performance. We are committed to be an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. In addition, but not limited to our benefits include: 

 

• 13th salary and yearly bonus 

• Provident Fund 

• Private Medical and Life Insurance 

• Flexible working arrangements (hybrid work and flexible work schedule) 

• Friday afternoon off  

• EY Tech MBA and EY MSc in Business Analytics 

• EY Badges - digital learning certificates 

• Mobility programs (if interested to work abroad) 

• Paid Sick Leave 

• Paid Paternity Leave 

• Yearly wellbeing days off  

• Maternity, Wedding and New Baby Gifts  

• EY Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (counselling, legal and financial consultation services) 

 

About EY  

 

EY | Building a better working world  

  

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.   

  

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform, and operate.   

  

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.  

  

#betterworkingworld 

 

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. 

 

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. 

 

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