HYT Consulting - Our client in the Fin-tech space is currently headhunting for a suitable candidate to fill the position below:

Job Title: Machine Learning Engineer

Department: Technology
Reports to: Chief Technology Officer
Job Level: Mid Level
Supervision: Chief Technology Officer

Location: Lagos Island
Salary: Very Attractive

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business objectives and developing models that help to achieve them, along with metrics to track their progress
• Managing available resources such as hardware, data, and personnel so that deadlines are met
• Analyzing the ML algorithms that could be used to solve a given problem and ranking them by their success probability
• Analyzing the errors of the model and designing strategies to overcome them
• Work closely with Data Engineers and Data Scientists to create analytical variables, metrics, and models.
• Work with Data Scientists to solve difficult engineering and machine learning problems and produce high-quality code.
• Identify and use the right analytical libraries, programming languages, and frameworks for each task, while developing your abilities and understanding of data science methodologies and approaches.
• Contribute to coding and engineering practices across all projects.
• Exploring and visualizing data to gain an understanding of it, then identifying differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the model in the real world
• Verifying data quality, and/or ensuring it via data cleaning
• Supervising the data acquisition process if more data is needed
• Defining validation strategies
• Defining the pre-processing or feature engineering to be done on a given dataset
• Defining data augmentation pipelines
• Refactor code into reusable libraries, APIs and tools.

Qualification:

• First Degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or other related fields
• Minimum of One- two 2-4 years working experience on Machine Learning in a fast-paced and complex business settings
• Experience as a software engineer with a deep interest in Analytics and Data Science

Competencies Required:

• Ability to engineer beautiful code and work on varied data science projects across multiple industries
• Proven knowledge of object-oriented programming e.g. Scala, Java, C++, etc.
• Knowledge of at least one scripting language e.g. Python, Perl, R, etc.
• Deep knowledge of testing frameworks and libraries
• Good knowledge of database management languages e.g. SQL, PostgreSQL or Object-based databases
• Knowledge of statistics, machine learning and data analytics techniques
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies, such as Spark, Hadoop/MapReduce is desirable but not essential

To Apply: Interested candidates should send CV to careers@hytng.com using the "JOB TITLE".