Data Scientist (Fixed-Term, 1 Year)

About the role

Activate Interactive, a technology consultancy in Singapore, is hiring a Data Scientist for its Co-Development Business Unit. You will work with Singapore government agencies on a fixed-term contract of 1 year. The role covers turning business needs into data science projects, building models and presenting insights to decision makers.

Key responsibilities

• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to understand their business challenges, refine use cases and turn them into data science projects.
• Clean, preprocess and engineer features in data, then build data science models to address each use case.
• Present findings, gather feedback and prioritise refinements in close iteration with stakeholders while managing the project timeline.
• Communicate data insights clearly, supported by visuals, to influence key decision makers.
• Design dashboards and interactive visualisations where the use case calls for them.

Required profile

• Experience in model deployment.
• Experience in stakeholder management.
• Experience in agile project management.

Required skills

• Exploring and analysing datasets with probability and statistical methods.
• Building machine learning models to detect patterns and make predictions.
• Data cleaning, imputation and correction of anomalies in structured or unstructured data.
• Writing scripts for data preparation and analysis with modern tools and programming.
• Designing data visualisations, from charts to custom tools integrated with data systems.

What we offer

• Competitive market salary and a variable performance bonus.
• Medical coverage, life and health insurance, and flexible benefits or allowance.
• Wellness support, learning programmes, certification support and a staff development budget.
• Structured career pathways on a technical or leadership track.
• Flexible work arrangements (place, time and load).