Senior Data Scientist

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist in Porto or Braga who's eager to embark on an exciting new opportunity!

🤩 About KWAN

We connect IT professionals with projects that match their skills, professional experience, and goals, then we offer a career progression program, delivered by in-house specialists - our People Experience Partners - to guide them through our journey with us.

🚀 What is this challenge about:

• Analyze and interpret large, complex datasets to generate actionable business insights.
• Build, deploy, and monitor machine learning models that support strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with data engineers to ensure reliable, accessible, and well-structured data for model development.
• Translate business needs into analytical questions and communicate results clearly to stakeholders.
• Design and implement feature engineering strategies to enhance model effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain pipelines for model training and evaluation.
• Promote best practices in MLOps, ensuring scalability and performance in production.

🛠 What we are looking for:

• Senior-level experience in Data Science or Machine Learning, preferably within the retail sector.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Proven experience designing, validating, deploying, and monitoring Machine Learning models end to end.
• Strong knowledge of feature engineering, model selection, tuning, evaluation, and lifecycle management.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong ability to translate retail and business challenges into practical, data-driven solutions.
• Ability to manage complex and ambiguous problems with a high level of autonomy and ownership.
• Strong communication skills and confidence presenting technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Analytical thinking, curiosity, creativity, and a continuous learning mindset.
• Hybrid: 2 days/week in the office (Porto / Braga).

✨ What we offer

• A project that matches your skills and ambitions, as well as your preferences for working policies and culture.
• A competitive salary with awesome benefits and opportunities to leverage your knowledge and network to earn additional income.
• An empowering and respectful work culture enriched with social and learning events.
• A People Experience Partner specially assigned to you - your go-to career guide, responsible for supporting your growth, facilitating training, and ensuring your work-life balance at KWAN.

🙌 Some Words From Our Colleagues

“At KWAN, they make sure that I feel comfortable with the client I’m working for and that what I’m doing aligns with my career aspirations.”

- Luis Caldeira, DevOps @ KWAN

👉 Grab this opportunity, apply now! 🤩💪