JUMIA is Africa’s leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 20 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs and Jumia Services. It is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by MTN, Millicom, Rocket Internet, Axa, Orange, Goldman Sachs & CdC.
Porto Tech Center (PTC) is JUMIA’s IT development center, with around 200 IT-specialists. Porto Tech Center was created in 2012 with the aim of focusing on IT development. At PTC, we provide you with a unique and exciting opportunity to work in an entrepreneurial environment and develop smart solutions for our group companies. We do e-commerce online shops, logistics, business intelligence and mobile applications, involving a wide range of high-end technologies for tens of millions customers. The software we create is present in more than 20 countries. At PTC, we provide you with a unique and exciting opportunity to work in an entrepreneurial environment and develop smart solutions for our company.
Africa is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, offering excellent opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment. Its economic growth has enabled innovative businesses to flourish and this is where Jumia steps in.JUMIA is looking for an exceptional data scientist to start a big data journey within the group. This journey objective is to leverage the value of the data within the group, in order to provide analytical support related to the company growth and success. This newly formed team will work cross-functionally with Executives, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Analytics and Finance, with many challenges as optimizing key features in a cost efficient way, identifying key market trends, and telling stories with data.
Responsibilities:
- Build and teach the company about machine and deep learning, participate actively into the journey setup, from the discovery phase until the corporate data centric transformation,
- Select topics, builds and optimizes solutions using machine and deep learning techniques,
- Do data mining using state-of-the-art methods,
- Extend the company’s data with third party sources of information when needed,
- Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems,
- Process, cleanse, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis,
- Build solutions with key concepts: security and privacy by design,
- Present the results telling stories with the data, using data storytelling and data visualization techniques,
- Create automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of the performance.
- Reporting to The E-Commerce CTO and Member of the Steering Committee.
- Interaction with the following stakeholders:
- The E-Commerce CTO as Executive manager,
- The E-Commerce CPO as manager of all the POs,
- The Central Marketing team,
- The Local (countries) marketing teams
Requirements
- Expert in SQL, R, Python and Scala programming and query languages,
- Experienced with Big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Solr, Kafka, Sqoop, Hive, ElasticSearch, etc…),
- Experienced with visualization tools like tableau, powerBI and/or Qliksense.
Personal Qualities & behavioural traits:
- Enthusiasm and an interest in all things technology;
- Solution oriented and proactive attitude;
- Likes problem analysis and solving;
- Eager to work in team environment and share knowhow – Easily adapts to new situations and changes;
- Has a keen attention to detail and is organized.
Academic & Trades Qualifications:
- Degree in Applied Math, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer science or other quantitative field.
- PhD or MS Must Have.
We offer:
- A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment,
- The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world,
- An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures.
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