Lead, Data Science Milano

Lead, Data Science
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world's best places to work, a champion of diversity and a model of social responsibility. We are currently #1 ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list and have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor's list for the last 13 years. We believe that diversity, inclusion and collaboration is key to building extraordinary teams. We hire people with exceptional talents, abilities and potential, then create an environment where you can become the best version of yourself and thrive both professionally and personally. We are publicly recognized by external parties such as Fortune, Vault, Mogul, Working Mother, Glassdoor and the Human Rights Campaign for being a great place to work for diversity and inclusion, women, LGBTQ and parents.

**WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

As a member of Bain's Advanced Analytics Group, you'll join a talented team of diverse and inclusive analytics professionals who are dedicated to solving complex challenges for our clients. We work closely with our generalist consultants and clients to develop data-driven strategies and innovative solutions. Our collaborative and supportive work environment fosters creativity and continuous learning, enabling us to consistently deliver exceptional results.

**WHAT YOU'LL DO

**As a member of the growing Data Science team in Bain's Advanced Analytics Group, you will**:

- Work with consulting teams and clients to understand business problems, translate them into data science projects and appropriately prioritize and execute

- Develop and/or implement tools for data acquisition, extraction, transformation, management, and manipulation of large and complex data sets

- Develop, prototype, test, and deploy machine learning solutions on wide ranging types of data sets, ranging from a few data points to billions

- Ensure standards and guidelines are being used by team to develop re-usable common frameworks, model and components that address repeatable tasks and problem/data sets in specific industries or business functions

- Keep abreast of new and current data science techniques and technologies

- Travel is required (~3 days every other week)

- This position will be located in Milan or Rome

**ABOUT YOU

**We are looking for someone who has**:

- Advanced Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or Information Sciences such as business analytics or informatics or Relevant Undergraduate Degree with 2+ years of advanced analytics/data science experience

- PhD it's a plus

- Strong foundation in mathematics and statistics

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss mathematical and machine learning technicalities with colleagues and clients from other disciplines

- Demonstrated interest in ML/AI/Data Science such as independent projects shared with community (via GitHub etc. ) and/or contributions to open-source initiatives

- Knowledge of supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning machine learning algorithms such as classifiers, cluster analysis, dimension reduction, regression, etc.

- Proficiency in Python required

- Experience with Containers, Docker and Git

- Experience in machine learning frameworks and tools (e. g. scikit-learn, mlr, caret, H2O, TensorFlow, MXNet, Pytorch, Caffe/Caffe2, CNTK, MLlib) required

- ** Professional knowledge of English and Italian is required