(KSK) Data Scientist

Discipline: Data Science
Job type: Permanent
Contact email: career@bcg-rise.com
Job ref: 305548
Published: over 2 years ago
Startdate: 23 September 2021 - 23 September 2021
Founded in 2013, KSK Land Sdn Bhd is a wholly owned subsidiary of KSK Group Berhad, an established Malaysian investment holding company. As a lifestyle developer, KSK Land strives to continuously redefine the way people live, work and play — brick by brick — through meticulously designed, innovative and sustainable lifestyle concepts.

KSK City Labs is a wholly-owned subsidiary of KSK Land and is its in-house software engineering & data science team that uses digital platforms and machine learning to create seamless experiences for our customers as well as to create solutions to power KSK Land’s strategic decisions.

Data Scientist in KSK City Labs:
Data is everywhere! Are your talents shaping the world that we live in yet? Join us as we embark on a mission to reinvent the real estate ecosystem through innovation and create livable smart developments and cities. Start seeing your work transform markets across Asia and the world.

Day to day, the expectation of you is to:
  • Define and execute data science solutions that address various business use cases and requirements
  • Discover, interpret, and document insights from large datasets through exploratory analysis and advanced analytical methodologies and present them
  • Create statistical and machine learning models in multiple technologies, using best in-class data science approaches
  • Work with our engineers to integrate data science products into customer-facing products. How cool is that?
So, we are looking for individuals who possess the following:

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s in Data Science or a related discipline (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, other STEM degrees or Operations Research) OR
  • 2 years of related work and/or research experience in a quantitative role
  • In-depth knowledge in at least 2 of the following data science domains:
a. Predictive Modeling and Recommender Systems
b. Financial modeling
c. Text Mining / NLP
d. Geospatial Analysis
e. Graph mining and Network Analysis

  • Extensive knowledge of a statistical programming language (e.g. R or Python)
  • Fluent in SQL and possesses workable knowledge of relational databases
  • Has experience in the development of a data science project (ideally, at least 1 full cycle)
  • BONUS: Experience with NoSQL data environments and related tools such as Hadoop and/or Spark
  • BONUS: Experience with projects in proptech
On your continuous growth, you will also be involved with other related projects within KSK Land impacting the industry setting a new height for data evolutions.