Data Scientist 2

Every day, millions of people search for their perfect flight, hotel or rental car on Skyscanner! Our team is responsible for delivering data science solutions that power data-driven products across all these verticals. Our goal is to ensure travellers receive highly relevant and personalised experiences that are optimised and scalable!

As a Data Scientist, you will join high impact projects related to data and modelling across a broad range of topics. You will work on the full lifecycle of your project, including the discovery of business opportunities, supporting collection of our traveller and business data as well as the feature transformations and engineering with the development and monitoring of machine learning models. Since our models reach millions of travellers, you will develop simple and scalable solutions at the highest standards.

At Skyscanner, we are working on exciting projects such as hotel and flights ranking, recommendation of destinations, price prediction, product inventory optimisation across 1000+ partners, among many other data rich projects. You can expect to formulate ideas, develop prototypes and work with engineers to implement models in live production systems.

The role will include:

• Researching new ways of modelling data for actionable insights and product improvements.
• Performing statistical analyses and building machine learning solutions to support Skyscanner product and business needs.
• Partnering closely with product, engineering, and marketing to solve quantitative problems and identify trends and opportunities.
• Designing agile and rigorous experiments to measure the efficiency of models, tools and programs.
• Deploying and maintaining models in production environments.

Some of our expectations for the role include:

• You can communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• You’re comfortable with Python and/or R.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms and software development tools (AWS/GCP/Azure, Git, Docker, CI/CD).
• Good data querying skills using variations of SQL dialects.
• You have worked 2+ years in a Data Science role.
• You enjoy working in a dynamic environment with teammates from a variety of backgrounds.

What else can we offer you…

Already a global leader in travel, we want to elevate the way we work to a whole other level. In return, you’ll get meaningful things like medical insurance, headspace subscriptions, a home office allowance and the option to buy more holiday. You’ll have the opportunity to work from any country for 4 weeks a year, and 30 days in our other global offices. Everything, in other words, to help you relax and give your best.