Praca Duque de Saldanha 1, 2, Lisbon, Portugal Hybrid Full-time EUR 36,600 – 53,200 / year

NielsenIQ is hiring a Lead Data Scientist

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with data scientists across domains on research, automation, and development initiatives to meet current business demands
  • Convert client needs into practical data solutions or scalable products
  • Generate and advance ideas for new product development and innovation
  • Reframe business challenges as structured research problems
  • Establish and manage the strategic direction for research, development, and prototyping efforts
  • Investigate potential solutions, design and run experiments, build prototypes, and assist engineering teams in scaling them
  • Develop statistical, machine learning, and AI models as proofs of concept to tackle specific client objectives
  • Evaluate and refine models using large-scale datasets, adjusting parameters and iterating for performance
  • Record methodologies, experimental results, and decision rationale, and draft technical specifications for engineering handoff
  • Produce, review, update, and share clean, efficient, and well-documented code used in prototyping and data processing

Responsibilities

  • Work across functions, including with other data scientists specializing in different areas, on various projects, including R&D and automation to solve the business needs of the day
  • Translate Clients’ requirements to actionable solutions or products
  • Ideate and develop solutions for the product innovation pipeline
  • Define the given business problem as a scientific research problem
  • Define and own the roadmap of R&D and prototyping solutions
  • Research solutions, set and execute experiments, prototype the solution and support Technology team on productionalizing them
  • Build statistical and analytical models (including ML/AI approaches) as prototypes and POCs to address specific client business needs
  • Test and optimize those models using big data. Fine tune parameters and iterate.
  • Document the solution and experimentation to arrive to it, and create specifications for Technology team to productionize it
  • Read, write, comment, maintain, and share legible and quality computer code utilized in prototyping and suctioning.
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NielsenIQ
NielsenIQ delivers the Full View of shopper behaviour to clients through Homescan panel data, capturing real shopper behaviour to provide insights for businesses, particularly in the FMCG sector.
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Department Data Science & Business Intelligence
Category data
Posted 23 days ago