Data Scientist (DS) - 6300

Package Description

Excellent Salary 

Corporate Benefits Package 

Support provided to EU Nationals requiring relocation – Information available upon request

And the chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.

Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team

Job Introduction

Serco is a partner of choice to the European Institutions and other International Organisations. For the past 30 years, we have been providing European and International Organisations a wide range of services including ICT services in support, infrastructure, operations and development as well as managing different contact centres for the key European Institutions, agencies and organisations, in Brussels and across Europe.

What connects the ever-growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service –
To keep ahead, we have to evolve continually and enhance the way we deliver our services. Everyone in Serco has a role to play, here.

Serco provides the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.

We are hiring a Data Scientist (DS) - 6300 for our prestigious partner DIGIT TM (DG Informatics) in Brussels. DIGIT-TM is a contract from the European Commission for IT services across Europe.

If you like to work in a multi-cultural and dynamic environment, this opportunity can answer to your expectation.

We look forward to meeting you!  Discover the offer below and click on ‘Apply’ if you know that your skillset and talents are a suitable match for this opportunity.

At Serco, we do not only offer a career but also the opportunity to join a community where everyone’s wellbeing matters, by living out the Serco values in all we do!

Main Responsibilities

Are you looking to secure a career in a public sector environment? We would love to hear from you! 

As Data Scientist (DS) - 6300 you will be responsible for:

• Definition of solutions proposed for servicing policy units’ business needs;
• Preparation of statistical analysis of data for use by policy officers and other stakeholders;
• Management and processing of data;
• Development and maintenance of interactive dashboards in Power BI;
• Coordination and review of policy units’ business needs.
• Reporting of key indicators for different policy fields on the basis of data sets available;
• Assistance with data management aspects of IT projects developed in DG GROW;
• Creating, designing and developing data models;
• Carry out ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks;
• Analyse large datasets and propose approaches for optimisation of reporting;
• Assessment and quality control of data;
• Interaction with the business analysts, customer, users, project leaders and the developers

In return, we offer a friendly, supportive and professional environment that respects your work/life balance and ultimately contributes to the delivery of public services in Belgium and around the world.

Successful Candidate

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

• A Bachelor level or 
• 3 years of higher education

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Please specify the knowledge and skills necessary for the performance of the above list tasks:

• Very good knowledge of reporting and statistics
• Ability to provide ad hoc reports efficiently and fast
• Ability to give business and technical presentations
• Ability to apply high quality standards
• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in reporting (currently focused on Power BI)
• Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
• Analysis and problem solving skills
• Capability to write clear and structured technical documents
• Ability to participate in technical meetings and good communication skills

Due to the particular nature of a large international organisation such as the European Commission, candidates should also have the following non-technical skills:

• Ability to participate in multilingual meetings;
• Ability to work in multi-cultural environment, on multiple large projects;
• Excellent Team Player
• Ability to understand, speak and write English C1 will be an advantage;
• High degree of discretion and integrity is required as the applications managed and maintained in GROW, G.4, contain personal and confidential data

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

Following specific expertise is mandatory for the performance of tasks:

• Excellent knowledge of Data Analytics techniques and tools.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
• Experience with languages like R, Python, PERL, ….
• Proficient in continuous code delivery and unit testing.
• Good knowledge of business intelligence tools (Tableau, SAS, SAP, GoodData…).
• Expertise in the ETL processes and tools (i.e. Talend Open Studio…).
• Good knowledge of SQL tooling (NoSQL DB, MongoDB, Hadoop, SQL).
• Knowledge of architectural design and implementation of scalable modern data stores.
• Knowledge in one of the following areas: predictive (forecasting, recommendation), prescriptive (simulation), sentiment analysis, topic detection, social media crawling and processing, plagiarism detection, trends/anomalies detection in datasets, recommendation systems.

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Important

Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.

Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process.

Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization. 

Data Protection:

When creating a profile on the Serco Career Centre you agreed to the Data Protection policy, a copy is available upon request.

You may submit a written request revoking your consent to this agreement at any time.

About the Company

Why should you join Serco ?

At Serco not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play.

Meaningful and vital work - You’ll contribute to methodologically intercepting challenges whilst achievements will also be recognised and celebrated.

A world of opportunity - You’ll be wholeheartedly supported with development and career progression

Great people - You’ll become an integral member of a well-defined and supportive team who believe passionately in the value of our work.

What we offer

• Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services sector
• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
• Permanent employment with comprehensive Serco Benefits package.

About Serco

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play when managing complex public services.  

We are a team of 60,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world, we are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

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