PHF Science

Lead Data Scientist

PHF Science

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: AucklandNew 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