
Lead Data Scientist
PHF Science
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Auckland • New Zealand
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About the role
- Provide vision, expertise and leadership to our Data Science team.
- Enable, mentor and develop capability within the team.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders.
- Create new opportunities for PHF Science.
- Supervise PhD and Master’s students and undertake relevant research.
Requirements
- A post graduate qualification in a relevant discipline.
- Proven experience in leading high-performance teams to create business outcomes from data.
- Highly experienced in statistics, mathematics, machine learning/deep learning, and other data science methods.
- Experience with MLOps and LLM-powered AI services and workflows.
- Highly skilled in HPC and/or Cloud environments and the ability to develop scientific/numerical programming.
- Highly proficiency in scripting languages such as R and Python.
- Positive and effective ability to communicate with a wide range of people.
- Ability to effectively lead and manage people and cross-organisation relationships.
- Training, mentoring and team development skills.
- Experience in project management.
- Experience in publishing in scientific journals.
- Ability to prepare and present scientific information (written and verbal) to a range of audiences.
Benefits
- Flexible working options to support balancing work and non-work commitments
- The equivalent of 5 weeks holidays
- 15 days sick leave per year and service leave provisions after five years
- Annual volunteer day to support an organisation or issue you care about in the community
- Free annual flu vaccinations
- Life insurance and physical loss benefit
- Subsidised Southern Cross insurance & access to special retail discounts
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), a confidential and free counselling service.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
statisticsmathematicsmachine learningdeep learningMLOpsHPCCloud environmentsscientific programmingnumerical programmingscripting languages
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationteam developmentproject managementrelationship managementtrainingeffective communicationcross-organisation collaborationsupervision
Certifications
post graduate qualification