Associate Data Scientist
Kickstart your career with one of Northern Ireland’s most successful fintech companies!
We are expanding our Data Science team and are keen to recruit an Associate Data Scientist. This is an excellent time to join our award-winning company as we continue to evolve and innovate across the business and grow in new markets in our mission to help the world find better deals. You will have the opportunity to work in a friendly, dynamic, and inclusive environment with talented and passionate individuals and the option to work in a hybrid work pattern.
The Role
The Associate Data Scientist role is a dynamic position in which you will gain experience in identifying and finding technical solutions to business challenges. You will be involved in existing projects and be given the responsibility to suggest and be involved in new ones.
Tasks are varied – you could be helping business teams to introduce more efficient processes and tooling, creating reporting tools for panel members on our price comparison websites, or working with our internal teams to write requirements to facilitate data-driven approaches during the development of Seopa’s latest comparison systems!
You will work closely with various stakeholders within the company, including project managers, product owners, software & system engineers, as well as external partners such as 3rd party suppliers, consultants and account and integration managers from panel member companies.
At Seopa, we value the contribution each one of our team members makes and so you will be involved in meaningful work that has a demonstrable impact on the business as soon as you’ve completed your onboarding.
Guided and mentored by experienced team members, you will be empowered to quickly take on more responsibility as you gain experience and build up your skills.
Typical tasks you will be involved in:
Maintaining Database Integrity:
- Oversee our existing database systems and ETL/TEL solutions.
- Identify & document areas that can be improved upon, either through query optimisation or automation.
- Diagnose & resolve issues relating to data integration by working with development teams.
Identifying Solutions to Business Problems:
- Work closely with business teams to improve and advance reporting systems.
- Conduct research on competitor practices and directly related industries, and present recommendations to the project manager or relevant stakeholders within the company.
- Consult on data-centric requirements to optimise product and system update delivery.
Implementing Data in Commercial Applications:
- Collect and structure meaningful data to be used in a variety of projects.
- Design APIs, utilizing third-party packages, libraries and datasets and deploy in a fast-paced environment.
- Evaluate and create statistical analytics to be used by all business and marketing teams.
The successful candidate will have:
Academics: Honours Degree in Computing or equivalent (minimum 2:1), and 3 grades ‘B’ or above at A-Level are desirable but not essential.
Essential Criteria – experience may have been obtained through university projects, personal learning, placement or other relevant work experience
- Experience in MySQL, MS Server SQL and other relational database languages
- Experience working with APIs
- Experience with Python or Rust
- Excellent analytical and data interpretation skills
- Excellent skills in MS Office (particularly Excel)
Desirable Criteria
- Experience in ETL/TEL solutions
- Experience in the Google family of APIs
- Experience with Pandas/SciKit-Learn or similar libraries
- Experience in statistical analysis methods
Personal Attributes:
- Good interpersonal and influencing skills
- Attentive to detail - getting it ‘right first time’
- Self-motivated, able to use initiative and think creatively
- Organised approach to work
- Ability to work as part of a team
The successful candidate must, at the commencement of employment, have the right to work in the UK.
Our company values:
SMART - We are innovative and strategic, we find better ways to do things
EFFICIENT - We maximise productivity and value for money, we minimise waste and duplication
OPEN - We are one team – diverse, loyal and respectful, we welcome new ideas, challenge and change
PASSIONATE - We are ambitious, positive and driven, we celebrate the success of our company and colleagues
ACCOUNTABLE - We are responsible, trustworthy and dependable, we do what we say we will
Benefits: Seopa offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including:
- private medical insurance
- life assurance
- pension and opportunity for annual pension review
- health cashback plan
- hybrid working arrangements (employees should therefore be based in N.I)
- annual travel card loan
- additional service-related holidays
- option to buy additional holidays
- cycle to work scheme
- full access to online learning system
- wide-ranging discount reward schemes
- recognition and referral bonuses
Location - The company operates a hybrid working policy, where employees can work both from home and from our office Amelia Street, Belfast BT2 7GS.
How to Apply - Please submit your CV
About Seopa
Founded in 2003 with branches in Belfast (Head Office) and Timisoara, we are an industry leader in creating and hosting insurance, finance and utility price comparison engines. In addition to providing our software and systems to other companies, we operate our own insurance comparison brands - Quotezone.co.uk and CompareNI.com.
Used by more than 3 million people annually, our systems enable insurance providers to secure business within their target markets and empower consumers to easily identify those providers who meet their financial product requirements at market leading prices. Our Affinity Partnership arrangements also facilitate other companies to increase the range of services offered (and revenue generated) via their websites. Our products are used by over 400 financial partners in the insurance, finance and utilities industry.
Our success has been recognised by a series of awards including six consecutive Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards, a Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast500 award, several prestigious Deloitte Best Managed Companies awards (2017, 2018, 2019), three Gold Standard Best Managed Companies awards (2020, 2021 and 2022) and Platinum standard Best Managed Companies award 2023.