Data Scientist/Senior Data Scientist

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What The Role Is
At HTX, our vision is to exponentially impact Singapore's safety and security, ensuring a safer and more resilient future for all. Our mission drives us towards force multiplying our Home Team through scientific and technological breakthroughs, and secure Singapore's future by empowering our frontlines and enhancing public safety. Joining HTX means becoming part of a dynamic team committed to these critical goals, where your work as a Data Scientist will directly contribute to these efforts. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to leverage data-driven insights to support decision-making, develop innovative solutions, and play a pivotal role in safeguarding our nation. If you're passionate about making an impact that truly matters, HTX is the place for you.

What The Role Is
At HTX, our vision is to exponentially impact Singapore's safety and security, ensuring a safer and more resilient future for all. Our mission drives us towards force multiplying our Home Team through scientific and technological breakthroughs, and secure Singapore's future by empowering our frontlines and enhancing public safety. Joining HTX means becoming part of a dynamic team committed to these critical goals, where your work as a Data Scientist will directly contribute to these efforts. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to leverage data-driven insights to support decision-making, develop innovative solutions, and play a pivotal role in safeguarding our nation. If you're passionate about making an impact that truly matters, HTX is the place for you.
What You Will Be Working On
We are looking for someone who is creative, curious, collaborative and enjoys challenges. If you like to design, build and deploy scalable solutions using operations research and/or AI to address complex planning problems for the Home Team, we want you Successful candidate's primary job role would be in operations research with focus in Optimization techniques, there will also be opportunity for job holder to gain exposure to other related work. We believe in upskilling our officers and exposing them to work spanning from end-to-end of the solution.
The job-holder is expected to collaborate with various teams (within HTX and across Home Teams) and is responsible for:

• Working in a Data Science team with other stakeholders to identify, scope, develop and implement data science and AI solutions to address users' needs.
• Applying operations research techniques (mathematical programming such as linear programming, mixed integer programming and constraint programming) and/or Data Science (AI, machine learning and deep learning and data analytics) to address the diverse business needs for MHA.
• Learning and deep diving into the above techniques through research.
• Collaborate closely with business users to extract actionable insights from data and processes and develop data-driven & optimised solutions to meet their needs.
• Present analytical insights to business users and stakeholders.
• Manage large scale and complex projects which may be developed in-house or co-developed with external or consultancy agencies and/or academic institutions.
  

What We Are Looking For

• Candidates should possess at least a bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline: Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or Operations Research or related disciplines.
• Candidates must be good problem solvers with strong analytical and mathematical skills. Background in operations research, particularly knowledge in linear programming, mixed integer programming, constraint programming, evolutionary algorithm, heuristic search, statistics and data analysis is required.
• Familiarity in mathematical programming tools such as IBM Cplex, Gurobi, OR-Tools is advantageous.
• Experience in SQL or handling of data (merging data and data transformation) or user interface development and proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, Java and C/C++/C# is advantageous.
  

Personal Characteristics & Behaviours
He / She Has

• good critical thinking, data analysis and problem-solving skills
• good written and verbal communication skills to communicate technical aspects effectively to non-technical audience
• good interpersonal and stakeholder management skills to work under tight timelines
• good working attitude and able to work effectively as part of a team
  

All new hires are appointed on a two-year contract in the first instance and will be assessed and considered for permanent tenure over time, based on performance.
As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.
All applicants will be updated on the status of their applications within 4 weeks upon closing of the advertisement.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Government Administration

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