Senior Data Scientist

Region: LATAM and EMEA

Country: Poland, Croatia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Portugal

Type: Fully remote

What's the Project?

Newfire Global Partners is a leading technology firm that specializes in building transformative software solutions for some of the world’s most innovative companies. With a presence across four continents, Newfire Global brings deep expertise in digital healthcare, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise technology. The firm’s track record of delivering scalable, high-impact solutions has made it a trusted partner for organizations seeking to drive meaningful change through technology.

We are passionate about the purpose-driven mission to help improve the quality of care for patients and are building a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. We are a fully funded company founded by serial entrepreneurs with a stable client base.

Opportunity for impact

Newfire Global Partners, a leader in developing disruptive healthcare technology, collaborates with Fortune 500 companies and start-ups to drive transformation.

The Senior Data Scientist performs data analysis to extract knowledge or insight from structured or unstructured data. This position will apply advanced statistical algorithms for analysis of large-scale, complex datasets. This position will keep up to date with cutting-edge techniques in programming, machine learning, big data, and healthcare modeling and will seek ways to advance the organization’s capabilities in analytics.

You’re a perfect match if you have:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, information technology, or related field.
3+ years of professional experience working with large datasets for drawing business insights.
1+ years of experience in a data science role.
Professional working knowledge of machine learning; including solving complex business problems, predictive modeling, leveraging both structured and unstructured data sources, relational databases, and SQL.
Professional working knowledge of statistics and modeling techniques.
Fluent in Python or R programming.
Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies.
Proficient in Microsoft Office.
Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or related field.
Experience in cloud environments.
Professional working knowledge of distributed computing and big data technologies, such as Spark or related technologies.
Professional working knowledge of statistical methodologies and tools (R, SAS, SPSS, etc.), mathematical optimization, control theory, and time-series analysis.
Professional working knowledge of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, or Recommender Systems.

Your day-to-day activities:

Include but are not limited to the following:

Apply machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence techniques.
Use advanced analytics methods to extract value from business data.
Perform large-scale experimentation and build data-driven models to answer business questions.
Create hypotheses and experiments to identify hidden relationships and construct new analytics methods.
Develop and implement Markov decision process models and healthcare economic models.
Articulate a vision and roadmap for the utilization of data as a valued corporate asset.
Visualize information and develop reports on results of data analysis.
Influence product teams through presentation of data-based recommendations.
Spread best practices to analytics and product teams.
Implement new tools to make data analysis more efficient.
Ability to work with minimal supervision.
Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.
Ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Please note that employment will be contingent upon providing documentation verifying your legal work authorization in the country of residence, in accordance with applicable law.

Ready to dive in?

Alejandro Rodriguez
Recruiter

Mexico/General

alejandro.rodriguez@newfireglobal.com

Hiring Process

Here's what you can expect during our hiring process.

Stage 1

Applied

Stage 2

Shortlist

Stage 3

Interview

Stage 4

Review

Stage 5

Technical Interview

Stage 6

CSM Interview

Stage 7

Client Interview

Stage 8

Verbal offer

Stage 9

Offer Letter

Stage 10

Background Check

Stage 11

Hired

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