Company Description
Welcome to SMG Swiss Marketplace Group!
SMG is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a leading European digital company that simplifies people’s lives with forward-looking products.
We operate leading marketplaces across real estate, automotive, general classifieds, and finance & insurance. We’re driven by our values : Better Together, Aim High, and Act Responsibly.
Job Description
Meet the team!
At SMG, our strength lies in our people. Meet some of the team members with whom you could work :
- Janine Lee - Director Data- LinkedIn
- Dmytro Yurchenko - Senior Machine Learning Engineer - LinkedIn
- Vukasin Vasiljevic - Machine Learning Engineer - LinkedIn
- Marcel Schumacher - Data Product Manager - LinkedIn
As a Lead Data Scientist at Swiss Marketplace Group's Real Estate Business Unit, you will contribute to the data hub for the leading real estate platforms in Switzerland, which includes homegate.ch and immoscout24.ch, among others. You will be part of a cross-functional, agile data team with an open mindset and teammates who enjoy learning new skills and sharing theirs.
The Lead Data Scientist will be responsible for developing and implementing data science solutions that drive business growth and innovation. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building data science, machine learning, and generative AI use cases. The Lead Data Scientist is a senior-level position strongly focused on technical leadership (100% hands-on) and opens a path to a technical career track.
About The Position
You will design and implement data science and machine learning use cases to bring value to our users and solve business challengesYou will be the tech lead for data-science projects and teams to align with business needs and deliver valueYou will provide technical guidance, suggest best practices, and drive team agreements related to best practicesYou will perform exploratory data analysis on large and complex datasets to identify patterns, trends, and relationships, and ultimately generate high-quality data and relevant hypothesesYou will lead implementations of Generative AI use cases, from conceptualization & experimentation to implementation and monitoringYou will develop and apply ML / AI techniques and best practices for reliable, scalable, and ethical data-driven solutionsYou collaborate with stakeholders to understand the specific objectives and goals of projects, and aid in designing a formal way of evaluating the systems’ performance against theseYou will write, review, and debug code for complex projects and lead solution development and alignmentYou will own and further develop our in-house models in many different areas, such as inventory classification, predictions, recommendations or fraud detectionYou will report directly to the Head of Data Engineering & ScienceQualifications
What will you bring to the ride?
5+ years of experience in building data science projectsDeep understanding of data science pipelines, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, deployment, and monitoringExperience with data lineage, data transformation, data modelling, data storage, data access, and data quality assessment techniques is essential for effective model development and productionalizationExperience working with a high volume of heterogeneous dataStrong programming in Python (and preferably also SQL) and data modelling skillsExperience with bringing models to a production environment (deployment, retraining, experiment tracking )Successful track records of productionizing machine learning modelsCapable of investigating, familiarising, and mastering new data sets quicklyAbility to work well / synergise with different teams and to deal with ambiguityAttention to detail in complex environmentsStrong dedication to driving change with a positive can-do attitudeA proactive approach to learning and finding solutions outside the direct area of competenceFluency in English, both written and verbalEager to keep up to j4id10069195a j4it0206a j4iy26a