Senior Data Scientist | Tokyo

Job: Permanent Contract
Location: Nagoya, Tokyo
Capabilities: Big Data & Advanced Analytics, Technology & digital

Organisation

This consultancy firm partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. They started in business strategy. Today, they help clients with total transformation – inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Their diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. They deliver solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

You will work here

The department you will work for combines innovative skills in computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, and machine learning with deep industry expertise. The team is comprised of world-class data scientists and business consultants who specialize in the use of advanced analytics to get breakthrough business results. They own the full analytics value-chain end to end: framing new business challenges, building fact-bases, designing innovative algorithms, creating scale through designing tools and apps, and training colleagues and clients in new solutions. You’ll have the chance to work with clients in every region and every industry area. They are also a core member of a rapidly growing analytics enterprise – a constellation of teams focused on driving practical results for their clients by applying leading edge analytics approaches, data, and technology.

You are going to do this

We’re looking for a passionate and talented Senior Data Scientist (‘SDS’) to join their rapidly growing team. In this role, you’ll have the chance to roll up your sleeves and apply data science methods and analytics to real-world business situations across a variety of industries. As the field of advanced analytics is rapidly evolving, the SDS is responsible for staying current on leading-edge business applications, tools and approaches, proactively working with the Analytics Leadership to enhance offerings that deliver competitive advantage. Successful candidates are intellectually curious builders who are biased toward action, scrappy, and communicative. You will also get the chance to travel: we have clients in New York, Paris, Stockholm, Peru, and so on. Make sure your passport is ready to go!

Who you are

Have deep technical and Data Science expertise: The successful candidate will have a wealth of experience with applying advanced analytics to a variety of business situations, such that they can efficiently and effectively advise multiple teams on the best path to uncovering critical insights for clients.
Are an autonomous self-starter with a passion for analytics and problem solving. You will help build new Analytics service offerings that grow our portfolio of products and will captures proprietary content, and support the creation of proposal/selling documents.
Are comfortable managing engagements, client relationships, and acting as a “thought Leader.” Strong presence, strong collaborator and leadership skills and ability to operate effectively in a matrix organization are a must.
Love building things and are comfortable working with modern development tools and writing code collaboratively (bonus points if you have a software development or DevOps experience)
Have significant experience applying advanced analytics to a variety of business situations and a proven ability to synthesize complex data; as well as a deep understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings, and are able to translate this into business implications for our clients
Have strong project management skills

Your qualifications

Master’s Degree with significant relevant experience providing advanced analytics solutions, or relevant PhD in computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, or a related data centric field.
Demonstrated deep technical and data science expertise, acute strategic and analytical skills, ability to lead and persuade, drive and energy, and desire to work in a project based environment on strategic issues.
Strong record of professional accomplishment and leadership.
Fluency in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, R)
English: Professional level
Japanese: Professional level – JLPT N2