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    4. Junior Data Scientist 2022
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    Working with a team of Data Scientists and Engineers you’ll be responsible for creating the future of data within Vodafone Business. The role is broad, requiring a logical and curious mind, and a business focus to find new opportunities. In exchange, there are many development opportunities both within the team and in the wider Vodafone business.

    As an experience member of the team you’ll get involved with training other members of the team with the potential to mentor and manager junior team members.  We’ll also want you to support the Data Science and Insight team’s overall vision of driving data decision making across the Business by articulating and promoting the value of analytical work across the business.

    What will you be doing?

    • Create advanced analytics products that provide actionable business insight to Vodafone and external clients.
    • Develop predictive models with large and varied datasets working with a community of colleagues across technology, data and marketing.
    • Identify potential new data sources and investigating potential user cases.
    • Work with stakeholders to create hypotheses which you will then test and deliver solutions to real business problems

    Who are we looking for?

    • Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in quantitative fields including Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science Engineering.
    • Excellent communication skills - able to convey complex concepts to non-analytical audiences in a succinct form.
    • Expertise in data manipulation: use of structured data tools (e.g., SQL), & unstructured data tools and platforms (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL)
    • Significant experience using Python and PySpark essential.  Experience in Scala preferred but not required.
    • Experience managing several large scale projects and working across teams and departments.
    • Experience of implementing data transformations and algorithms in common programming languages.
    • Software development skills (e.g. unit testing, Git, etc.) and development of Retention and/or Recommender Systems.
    • Understanding and hands-on experience in related use cases (e.g. churn reduction, personalisation, network optimisation, customer satisfaction, etc) 

    What’s in it for you? 

    An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive and flexible benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family. We’re proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility for individuals returning to work after a career break. From our market-leading parental leave policies through to employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes we are committed to supporting you throughout your career with Vodafone.