Data Scientist II - Zonda - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Job Description
Data Scientist II – Zonda - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Job Description
Company Overview:
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
About Zonda:
Zonda is redefining the future of housing. We are perfectly placed in the heart of the fast-growing real estate industry. We are making big bets on the future of real-estate, trailblazing a 2030 vision for the industry. Here at Zonda, you’ll be able to use your passion and curiosity to drive the next generation of real estate analysts, advisors, technologists, and marketers.
Learn more about Zonda
Zonda is looking for a passionate Data Scientist II to help create, evolve and expand our team. Zonda looks for people who can grow, think, dream, and create. When you join our team, you’ll be in a unique position to make a change with every project. You’ll use your full range of skills to build great relationships and experiences and learn about the real estate industry, economics, marketing and data. You’ll be supported with the necessary tools, and you'll be working with an awesome and like-minded team. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary, and collaborative - all working to build the future of housing.
The Data Scientist II is a mid-level position responsible for Data Science and modelling in the realm of housing data. The Data Scientist would achieve this through the application of established processes of data analytics, experiments, engaging with stakeholders the findings and subsequently developing code for production. This will involve working with other data scientists or ML Engineers and business stakeholders. This role requires good cross disciplinary skills across databases, analytics, statistics, and modelling. The person should able be able to work independently in a DevOps environment, often collaborating with stakeholders from other technical teams as well as business teams. Good communication skills with an ability to demystify ML algorithms and capabilities is a must, as stakeholders in ML products include software engineering teams as well as non-technical business partners.
Major Job Responsibilities and Related Duties:
Collection, cleaning, and pre-processing of data for solving business problems.
Conduct exploratory data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and correlations in the data.
Develop and design experiments using statistical and machine learning models for data quality improvements, predictions, segmentation, and imputation.
Engage business stakeholders from analysis using visualisations and findings.
Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and deliverables.
Ownership of documentation related to datasets, model selection, training experiments, and inference workflows.
Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate ML models into production systems.
Monitor ML models in production, setting metrics to identify drift, and establish corrective measures for restoring model…