Data Scientist

Company Description

About the company

Hiflylabs is a Budapest-based company. We have 200+ employees at this moment and we are constantly thriving. Our application development team and business intelligence experts work to provide effective solutions to business problems.

Our professional team has proved its expertise through 10 years of experience, participating in multiple Business Intelligence projects – both Hungarian and international – in various industries, such as the financial, telecommunication and energy sectors.

We deliver a wide portfolio of innovative business solutions that include Data Warehouses, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics. In the last few years we have acquired a high level of competence in Application Development.

Hiflylabs is committed to innovation, and encourages the realization of innovative initiatives in the form of independent startups.

Get an insight on how we work and check out our Website, LinkedIn page and YouTube channel!

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with clients to understand their business objectives and translate them into technical requirements.
• Develop robust methodologies for analyzing and interpreting location data to extract actionable insights and drive informed decision-making for clients.
• Actively participate in project planning, progress tracking, and client communication.
• Collaborate closely with data engineers to access, preprocess, and integrate diverse datasets for analysis, and implement complex solutions.
• Develop and deploy algorithms and models to effectively convey insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

General qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree preferably in Data Science, Economics, Business Analytics
• 3-5 years of experience in data science or a related field
• Fluent English both writing and oral 

Technical requirements

• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Knowledge of at least one of the cloud platforms (eg. Azure, AWS, preferably GCP)
• Version control
• Familiarity with big data technologies such as Hadoop or Spark
• Traditional ML projects (supervised and unsupervised)
• Experience with geospatial analysis tools like GeoPandas or QGIS is a plus
• Proficiency with data visualization tools, experience with Folium is a plus

Nice to have

• Previous exposure to telecommunications-specific datasets or industry challenges
• Experience with location data analysis and relevant tools

Additional Information

Why us?

• Diverse projects: In each assignment there is always something new either on the technical or on the business side that helps you grow.
• Cutting edge technology: You will work with many of the most up-to-date technologies and tools.
• Strong and motivating team: We stress the importance of working together in tight-knit, cohesive teams in which members help each other to reach the common goal.
• Work-life balance: We help you to feel good individually as well, and coordinate work so as it should align with your leisure activities.
• Professional development: There are team gatherings on a regular schedule where colleagues can share their knowledge, and have deep technical discussions.
• Focus on company culture: In addition to our business and professional achievements we are proud of the social bonding in the company, which is based on mutual respect and helping one another.
• Personal mentoring: You will have your own mentor (just like everybody at Hiflylabs) who you can turn to with professional issues as well as with personal ones.