Senior Data Scientist - Education & Community EMEA

About Spotfire

Spotfire is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world. Spotfire combines visualizations and advanced analytics to allow experts in their field to find industry-specific solutions the human mind or computers can’t solve alone. Our more than 10,000 customers include:

• Majority of the top 10 Energy companies in the world

• Majority of the top 10 Life Sciences companies in the world

• 7 of the world’s top 10 Manufacturing companies

• Several other major companies in banking, retail, and airlines

​We are looking for people with a passion to make a big difference by doing the job they love – dynamic individuals willing to take the risks necessary to make big ideas come to life and who are comfortable collaborating in our creative, innovation-driven environment.

Overview

Our Customer Success team is central to our global strategy. Their work enables our clients to quickly create and deploy solutions that drive innovation, optimise operations, offer insight, and drive transformation. Ultimately the team is responsible for enabling our client’s competitiveness by accelerating ROI from any data science initiative with products that transform data into insight. 

Operating across sectors and with a high degree of independence, our data scientists have helped improve performance for F1 teams, improved energy production reliability through advanced statistical modeling, and enhanced product quality and optimized yield by detecting defects, forecasting production issues, and optimizing resource allocation to improve efficiency.

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our team. You are seeking an opportunity to challenge and develop both your knowledge as well as our client’s data science capabilities. You will join a team of highly collaborative individuals and will play a key role in developing our capability and establishing Spotfire leadership in the industrial analytics space. Through the content you create and deliver, you will be enabling our partners and customers on their Spotfire skills and will draw together our Spotfire user community. The role is based in the United Kingdom as a remote role. We are open to considering other European locations as well.

Responsibilities

The job holder will be expected to contribute to the following with varying degrees of priority: 

• Work with customers and partners to understand their education needs for Spotfire, Spotfire Statistica, and Spotfire Data Virtualization.

• Lead development and maintenance of education content, including online courses and certification materials, for Spotfire, Spotfire Statistica, and Spotfire Data Virtualization.  Content will need to be accurate, relevant, and aligned with industry standards.

• Collaborate with others in the Spotfire Education and Community team to create Dr. Spotfire webinars and Quick Tip videos

• Manage relationships with IT and external vendors for required software tools.

• Incorporate feedback from customers and internal staff to improve the effectiveness of educational content and initiatives.

• Contribute Spotfire learning materials to spotfire.com and Spotfire community. 

• Moderate Spotfire community as it relates to Spotfire enablement. 

• Increase awareness and enable adoption of Spotfire Industry Pro through Spotfire community content creation.

• Represent the Spotfire team as an instructor in industry events and external conferences.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data analytics and delivery of demonstrations, projects, engagements, or deployed software applications involving predictive analytics such as machine learning. Ability to understand data and data goals, and find solutions that are appropriate to the task.

• Exceptional presentation and public speaking skills, with demonstrated experience instructing/training technical concepts to diverse audiences (customers, partners, and at industry events).

• 3+ years of experience with Python or R, and working knowledge of SQL.  Experience with a variety of data science tools, including data visualization platforms (e.g., Spotfire, Tableau) and predictive modeling environments (e.g., KNIME, Matlab). Deep, hands-on experience with Spotfire, Spotfire Statistica, and/or Spotfire Data Virtualization is highly desired.

• Familiarity with Cloud ML platforms (e.g., AzureML, GCP), Big Data tools (e.g., Databricks, Spark, Snowflake), or enterprise data preparation/integration tools (e.g., Data Virtualization, Java, .Net) a plus.

• A degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science or related analytical field of study, with graduate classes in statistics and data mining.

• Demonstrated ability to design, develop and maintain technical educational content, including online courses, documentation and video tutorials.

• Language skills: Business level English; other languages are a plus.

• Experience moderating and engaging with a technical user community, or proven ability to drive adoption and awareness through content creation (blogs, social media, forums)

Please note you must have full working rights for the country you are applying for. If on a work permit or visa, please make sure the details along with expiry date are included on your application.

About Us:

Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks.  Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

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