Principal Specialist, Data Science

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• designing and building data pipelines and data storage solutions, using multiple database technologies across our GCP and AWS platforms (AWS/OpenSearch, BigQuery, Datastore, GCS)
• collaborating with our data scientists to design and build ML pipelines, that bring our models alive
• ensuring the full compliance of solutions being implemented with corporate data management principles, particularly pertaining to security and privacy
• defining and appropriating work to the product roadmap and backlogs
• training and coaching junior data engineers
• collaborating within the data engineering community within the Randstad ecosystem, on sharing best practices, setting and deploying standards, and helping grow our collective data engineering skills

who will you work with

You will be a part of a highly engaged, international and agile team of highly skilled specialists, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, and data analysts.
You will work closely with other data engineers within the Randstad ecosystem, both within projects as in the data engineering community.

what you will bring

• Masters degree in Computer science or related technical studies (M.Sc. or equivalent experience)
• min. 5 years work experience as a data engineer.
• algorithmic thinking, analytical capabilities.
• cloud platforms: comprehensive understanding of cloud computing (min. 3 years experience with GCP, AWS as a plus), solid experience in distributed computing.
• coding: high proficiency in Python, SQL and Java; Scala is a plus
• data processing: good knowledge on Apache Beam; Apache Spark as a plus.
• data management: good grasp of data governance strategies, ETL tooling like dbt, orchestration (Airflow).
• source control: experience working with CI/CD pipelines, gitlab, agile methodology.
• ML engineering: experience with implementing MLOps practices and ML models deployments into production.
• strong knowledge of data structures, data platforms and deployment at scale.
• hands on experience on designing and building data pipelines, including transformation, processing and quality control. 
• broad knowledge on applying the latest DataOps concepts, implementation toolings and data management frameworks.
• language skills: English (verbal and written)

Is this the job for you? We would love to hear from you! Please apply directly to the role and we will get in touch with you.