Data Stientist - Brussels (Far site) - European Comission

at  The White Team

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

Bachelor’s level or 3 years of higher education.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Very good knowledge of reporting and statistics
• Ability to provide ad hoc reports efficiently and fast
• Ability to give business and technical presentations
• Ability to apply high quality standards
• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in reporting (currently focused on Power BI)
• Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
• Analysis and problem solving skills
• Capability to write clear and structured technical documents
• Ability to participate in technical meetings and good communication skills

NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team;
• Ability to participate in multilingual meetings;
• Ability to work in multi-cultural environment, on multiple large projects;
• Excellent Team Player
• Ability to understand, speak and write English C1 will be an advantage;
• High degree of discretion and integrity is required as the applications managed and maintained in GROW, G.4, contain personal and confidential data

DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS

• Coordination and review of policy units’ business needs;
• Definition of solutions proposed for servicing policy units’ business needs;
• Interaction with the business analysts, customer, users, project leaders and the developers;
• Carry out ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks;
• Creating, designing and developing data models;
• Analyse large datasets and propose approaches for optimisation of reporting;
• Assessment and quality control of data;
• Preparation of statistical analysis of data for use by policy officers and other stakeholders;
• Management and processing of data;
• Reporting of key indicators for different policy fields on the basis of data sets available;
• Development and maintenance of interactive dashboards in Power BI;
• Assistance with data management aspects of IT projects developed in DG GROW.

Following specific expertise is mandatory for the performance of tasks:

• Excellent knowledge of Data Analytics techniques and tools.
• Good knowledge of Power BI.
• Experience with one or more of the following:
• Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
• Languages like R, Python, PERL, ….
• Other business intelligence tools (Tableau, SAS, SAP, GoodData…).
• ETL processes and tools (i.e. Talend Open Studio…).
• Knowledge of SQL tooling (NoSQL DB, MongoDB, Hadoop, SQL).
• Knowledge of architectural design and implementation of scalable modern data stores.
• Knowledge in one of the following areas:
• predictive (forecasting, recommendation),
• prescriptive (simulation),
• sentiment analysis,
• topic detection,
• social media crawling and processing,
• plagiarism detection,
• trends/anomalies detection in datasets,
• recommendation systems