Data Science Team Manager

Job Description

About the team

Welcome to the Delivery Experience (DEX) Location Intelligence's Data Science team, where we pride ourselves on driving data-driven insights that propel the business forward. At DEX, we build the technology we need to make Allegro deliveries easy and reliable. Our expertise spans across many areas including geospatial analysis, wherein we utilize a mix of GIS, spatial databases, and advanced statistical software. This empowers us to discover hidden patterns and trends in spatial data, leading to optimization in route planning, asset allocation, and a superior understanding of our service areas.
Further, we delve into network planning applying strategic thinking and modeling techniques. This facilitates us in devising optimal routes for delivery and managing our distribution network. We also hold proficiency in delivery time prediction, leveraging predictive analytics and machine learning to the best of their capacity. Consequently, we transform large volumes of data into actionable insights that make a significant difference in our business operations and decision-making.
Join us on this exhilarating journey as we pave the way for a seamless exploration of the world of Allegro’s geospatial data.

As a Data Science Team Manager operating in the geospatial domain, you will handle following tasks:

• Data Management: Collaborating with engineers to foster the availability, integrity, accuracy, and reliability of data and pipelines.
• Data Processing & Automation: Incorporating Python, PySpark, BigQuery, XGBoost, TensorFlow to process and automate petabytes of data.
• Research Participation: Involvement in research activities whose findings and recommendations directly influence the development direction of search products.
• Data Modeling/Analysis: Creating complex data models using machine learning and statistics to understand and predict patterns.
• Geospatial Analytics: Using GIS tools and location-based data to extract insights and improve decision-making.
• Delivery Time Predictions: Adopting advanced data analysis and machine learning to predict delivery times, including crafting algorithms and performing simulations.
• Collaboration: Working with the team to tackle complex issues, mentoring junior members, and fostering knowledge sharing.
• Communication/Data Visualization: Providing clear, visually focused communication of advanced data insights to non-technical stakeholders through report writing and presenting.

We are looking for people who:

• Have experience in managing a technical team, can set and deliver realistic, yet ambitious goals
• Have expertise in Python, Data Science, Big Data and cloud solution (preferable GCP)
• Have good communication and interpersonal skills
• Have a positive attitude and ability to work in a team
• Are able to work closely with the business (can reconcile technical and business issues)
• Are familiar with making difficult decisions
• Are eager to constantly develop and broaden their knowledge
• Know English on B2 (or higher) level

Additionally, we offer:

• Well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)
• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)
• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job
• Macbook Pro / Air (depending on the role) or Dell with Windows (if you don't like Macs) and other gadgets that you may need
• Working in a team you can always count on — we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise
• A high degree of autonomy in terms of organizing your team’s work; we encourage you to develop continuously and try out new things
• Hackathons, team tourism, training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (including training courses on work organization, means of communications, motivation to work and various technologies and subject-matter issues)
• If you want to learn more, check it out

Why is it worth working with us

• Big Data – several petabytes of data and Machine Learning used in production
• To match the scale, we also focus on building entire Platforms of tools and technologies that accelerate and facilitate day-to-day development, and we ensure the best Developer Experience to our teams
• Technological autonomy: you get to choose which technology solves the problem at hand (no need for management’s consent). You are responsible for what you create
• Our deployment environment combines private Data Centers (tens of thousands of servers) and Public Clouds (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure)
• Over 100 original open source projects and a few thousand stars on github
• We organize Allegro Tech Live event, a 100% remote version of our offline Allegro Tech Talks meetups, and we make guest appearances at the invitation of such communities as Warsaw AI, JUG (Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław), WG .Net, Dare IT, Women in Tech Summit
• We focus on development as well. We organize hackathons and internal conferences (e.g. the annual Allegro Tech Meeting), our employees regularly participate in events both in Poland and abroad (Europe and USA), and each team has its own budget for training and study aids. If you want to keep growing and share your knowledge, we will always support you

This may also interest you

Allegro Tech Podcast → https://podcast.allegro.tech/

Booklet → https://jobs.allegro.eu/job-areas/tech-data/

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