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Data Science Manager (5 days work in Tsim Sha Tsui)

Cherrypicks Limited

  • Company Industries:Information Technology

Job Information

  • Post Date:2018-07-05
  • Career Level:Senior
  • Location:Not Specified
  • Salary:Salary provided
  • Employment Type:Full Time
  • Job Function:IT Project Management / Team Lead  IT Management  Others  

Job Description

Cherrypicks is aggressively building big data and predictive analytics capabilities in order to deliver location intelligence to our customers. We are seeking a Data Engineer Manager to lead and grow a data engineering team to design, develop, and implement well tested and high-quality data solutions for new or existing projects, as well as applications within an Agile environment.
 
The Data Engineer Manager will collaborate regularly with data scientists and analysts in a team setting as well as 3rd party data providers to drive best practices and identify innovative strategies for successful data product delivery.
 
The successful candidate will be a creative problem solver who is equally comfortable with cloud technology and has a background in software development and best practices. We are interested in someone who can effectively lead a highly talented and skilled team of data engineers.

Job description:

  • Provide leadership and daily supervision to a data engineering team
  • Responsible for data application development and delivery; includes resource alignment, adherence to software development process, best practices, and technical leadership
  • User interaction and requirements gathering from internal customers and consulting them on best practices to effectively use the platforms as a data resource; providing management best recommendations and follow on solutions to support programming maintenance and growth to achieve strategic and operational goals.
  • Collaborate with other leaders to implement new features, enhance the current applications
  • Participate in technical discussions, evaluating, conceptualising; playing a key role on architecture and strategic decision; designing and executing development plans for the AWS platform.
  • Manage data engineering team by recruiting, training and coaching employees, communicating job expectations and appraising performance
  • Ensure security of data, quality and performance of AWS infrastructure and platform
  • Act in alignment with user needs and system functionality to meet organisational goals
  • Identify problematic areas and implement strategic solutions to address those areas
  • Ensure operations of team are following industry best practices
  • Collaborate with partners within the business to ensure we are aligned

Job requirement:

  • Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience developing software applications with languages such as R, Python, C/C , Scala, Bash, and Perl. 
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, MIS or a similar field
  • Proficiency with hands-on programming for big data environment and platforms
  • Experience with SQL in association with data transformation, custom reporting & analysis, and data investigation.
  • 5 years of management experience on leading software engineering team to deliver and support production quality applications
  • Experience to lead development of scalable and maintainable enterprise applications
  • Experience working on open source applications and platforms
  • Proficiency working on cloud environment, Amazon Web Services is highly desired
  • Ability to lead and follow standard development and engineering practices
  • Proven working experience as an IT manager and ability to communicate effectively to partners within the business, end users, and staff

Attractive long term career prospect, along with competitive remuneration package and fringe benefits will be offered to the right candidate.

Join us and be part of the award-winning team now!

Interested party, please send your full resume in MS Word with current and expected salary to [email protected] com

Please indicate in the subject line: Job Application – Data Science Manager (Your name).

Company Info

About cherrypicks

Established in 1999, Cherrypicks is a home-grown technology startup headquartered in Hong Kong and now a subsidiary of NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 777). The company is a regional Mobile Technology and Mobile eCommerce leader specializing in smart city, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, eWallet and location intelligence. The company has developed popular Online-to-Offline (O2O) mobile platforms, a world-class proximity detection and indoor positioning infrastructure starbeacon, and an augmented reality SDK solution ARwiz.

With disruptive O2O solutions as well as patent-pending products and technology inventions, Cherrypicks has won over 100 international and local awards in technology and digital marketing. They include winning the 'Oscars' of the IT field, being crowned the World Summit Award Mobile Global Champion and APICTA Winner Awards.

Today, Cherrypicks is a globally recognized guru of mobile solution innovations highly trusted by numerous long-term, multinational and local corporate clients in banking, insurance, catering, retail, property management, travel, and transportation sectors. For details, please visit www.cherrypicks.com

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