Big Data Science Consultant

GHD
Experienced Consultants - Big Data Science

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London
Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation.
About GHD
GHD is one of the world's leading professional services companies operating in the global markets of water, energy & resources, environment, property & buildings and transportation. We provide engineering, environmental consulting and advisory services to private and public sector clients.
Established in 1928 and privately owned by our people, GHD now employs more than 10,000 people with 200+ offices across five continents. This global network of knowledge, skills and experience enables us to deliver lasting solutions and community benefits.
The role we are seeking to fill is within GHD Digital, where we combine digital tools, technologies and innovative mentalities with 90+ years delivering engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services.
About the Position:
GHD digital is a small but rapidly growing, agile start-up within a successful established professional services business, where you will be part of an experienced, knowledgeable, high-achieving and fun team. There are great opportunities for career progression and you'll be working on a huge variety of projects. We work in an international and diverse atmosphere with a connected network of over 10,000 people.
Your role at GHD digital will involve developing elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, building and maintaining tools and dashboards and collaborating with technical colleagues to understand, improve, automate and innovate
Depending on your level of experience, you will be involved in:
Analysis of a variety of engineering and business-related data for a multitude of clients and use-cases across GHD, including people movement data and semi-structured data formats;
Integrating data visualisations and analytical outputs into a user-interface
Working closely with our clients and across GHD to understand the contextual challenges within a large and varied engineering organisation, and contribute to or lead the delivery of software solutions;
Using your knowledge and experience of relevant software and techniques to offer flexible and pragmatic solutions to clients;
Contributing to a varied portfolio of projects worldwide;
Providing leadership where appropriate to junior members of the team;
Representing GHD at networking events, and developing and maintaining solid relationships with our clients at all levels;
Opportunities to develop the GHD Digital business across the UK, Middle East and globally;
Leading technical aspects of significant and complex projects in a chosen area, and developing innovative solutions or approaches that address client needs; and
Providing a clear direction and vision for the technical delivery of projects and communicating it effectively to clients and to project teams.
Depending on your level of experience, you will bring:
Experience working with distributed big data processing frameworks such as Presto or Hadoop
Considerable capability in SQL
A professional qualification in a STEM subject or equivalent work experience, PhD considered beneficial but not essential;
Capability in methods of data classification and descriptive/inferential data analysis techniques such as machine learning and regression;
Proficiency in Python for data visualisation and dashboarding, with a focus on usability and user experience;
Experience writing and maintaining hygienic code;
Experience with version control systems such as Git or Mercurial (desirable);
Knowledge of cloud technologies such as Azure and their usage (desirable); and
Personal Attributes:
Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate ideas clearly at all levels;
Ability to interpret and explain complex analysis in clear terms for a non-expert audience;
Strong client relationship management skills
Ability to work well in a collaborative environment, both remotely and in-person
Ability and interest in mentoring teams to develop their skills, follow best practices and maintain quality standards in high pressure environments
Good commercial acumen
Why GHD?
Being the best that we can be is in our culture.
We are a family of smart, innovative, and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.
Our commitment to you
Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.
Who we are
We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly 'One GHD' across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.
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At GHD we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD aims to provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to gender reassignment, age, disability, religion, or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, or race
Why GHD?
Being the best we can be is in our culture.
We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.
Our commitment to you
Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.
Who we are
We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation . GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly 'One GHD' across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.