Job Description

Singapore, Singapore

Company: Singtel Group

Are you looking for value adding and impactful work?
Do you want to make a difference with your expertise?

With us, you\'ll be able to make it happen.

NCS is a leading technology services firm, operating across Asia Pacific in over 20 countries, providing services and solutions in consulting, digital services, technology, and more.

We believe in utilizing the power of technology to make extraordinary things happen and to create lasting impact and value for our people, communities, and partners. Our diverse 12,000-strong workforce has delivered a wealth of large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

What we do

We drive our passion for harnessing technology.
We bring people and technology together.
We advance communities and transform industries.

We\'re searching for a Data Science Competency Lead to be part of our diverse team of talent here at NCS!

If you believe in going above and beyond, want to exemplify the best, and wish to bring people and technology together like never before, then we would love to have a conversation with you!

What we seek to accomplish together:

We are looking for a highly-driven and motivated Data Science (BI) Lead to join our passionate NEXT Data team in delivering valuable insights to our clients. As our Data Science Competency Lead, you are first and foremost an engineer at heart that loves to build solutions with data and establish sound data engineering practices. You are comfortable translating clients\' business strategy and requirements into solutions underpinned by Data & Analytics, where Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) plays an integral part in our clients\' success. You are also passionate about technology, with a keen eye for data architecture and delivery approach to achieve the right business outcomes.

A little about you:

• Coaching and growing a team of Data & AI engineers, guiding them in their work to deliver impactful insights and best practices to deliver data-driven solutions.
• Developing and promoting best practices in analysis, information hierarchy and ML engineering techniques.
• Research and experiment new technologies to augment NCS\' portfolio of AI/ML solutions and accelerators for large scale deployment.
• Curating playbooks, standardized framework, practice guides and other artefacts that will allow our practitioners perform their work in a structured, standard manner.
• Creating and delivering narratives that are rich in insights, data rigor and recommendations tailored to any data customer up to and including C-suite executives.
• Identifying opportunities to engage prospective and existing clients on enhancing or integrating AI/ML into new or existing solutions.

What you might also need to have:

• 12+ years of consulting and end-to-end implementation experience in delivering business intelligence and analytics solutions for enterprise, ideally with an University degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Presales experience developing proposals and closing deals above SGD1 million, where AI/ML platforms, Model-as-a-service and data engineering form a significant portion of the solution.
• Extensive experience in managing scope and risks in the SDLC of delivery application enhanced with AI/ML capabilities.
• Strong detail-orientation and a keen sense of technology trends that could lead to business opportunities.
• Strong hands-on experience in python coding or MLOps.
• Strong design and implementation skills in logical and physical data models for Analytics applications.
• Advanced knowledge of performance optimization in AI/ML models and computations.
• Delivering AI/ML solutions in a waterfall approach with clear approaches for risk mitigation.
• Enterprise analytics solutions such as Databricks, or coding languages such as in R or PySpark.
• Leveraging on various data & analytics toolkits within cloud services like AWS or Azure.
• Data Management, Data Governance or real-time streaming technologies.

About NCS Group

We want to create the extraordinary, and to impact millions of people everyday.

We believe in building a talent-led delivery model to enable our best people to lead, and to support them with the right structure, processes, and tools to ensure that our clients are delivered top quality services.

We want to invest in you!

Great work is never done alone, and that\'s why we also believe in creating a collaborative work environment to bring people with different expertise and talent together.

We create opportunities for our people to grow in our organization with well-defined career tracks and specializations to ensure that our people and talent can continuously deliver new value for our clients.

We\'re here to make the extraordinary happen.

Learn more at ncs.co and our LinkedIn Career site.
All profiles are handled with highest level of confidentiality.

We are committed to a safe and healthy environment for our employees & customers and will require all prospective employees to be fully vaccinated.

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