Asc downstream data scientist

About our client:Our Client operates in the Oil and Energy industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in Saudi Arabia. It has its branches spread to more than 50 countries, providing employment to more than 68,500 people all over the world. They fall under the Fortune 500 Companies. They are one of the world’s largest oil producers. They are constantly growing by creating new technologies through its Research and Development efforts and branch into new business lines through Investments and Acquisitions.Responsibilities:Formulates and leads guided, multifaceted analytic studies against large volumes of data.Interprets and analyzes data using exploratory mathematic and statistical techniques based on the scientific method.Coordinates research and analytic activities utilizing various data points (unstructured and structured) and employ programming to clean, massage, and organize the data.Experiments against data points, provide information based on experiment results and provide previously undiscovered solutions to command data challenges.Leads all data experiments tasked by the Data Science Team.Coordinates with Data Engineers to build data environments providing data identified by Data Analysts, Data Integrators, Knowledge Managers, and Intel Analysts.Develops methodology and processes for prioritization and scheduling of projects.Analyzes problems and determines root causes.Defines company data assets (data models), spark, sparkSQL, and hiveSQL jobs to populate data models.Works closely with all business units and engineering teams to develop strategy for long term data platform architecture.Requirements:Master’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or related fields5-7 years of professional experienceProficient with one or more programming languages (Java, C++, Python, R, etc.)Demonstrated experience applying data science methods to real-world data problemsExperience utilizing visualization tools to take advantage of the growing volume of available informationData Scientist Qualifications / Skills:Advanced analytical knowledge of dataConducting big data analysisData conditioningProgramming advanced computingDeveloping algorithmsDeveloping software and data modelsExecuting predictive analytics