Data Scientist

About the role

ISD protects Singapore's internal security and stability, having played a central role for over 70 years in countering threats such as foreign subversion, espionage, racial and religious extremism and terrorism. It is recruiting a Data Scientist to work on data mining, machine learning and analytics projects. Only Singaporeans are eligible to apply.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct end-to-end data mining on complex data sources, including processing, cleaning, integrating, analysing, visualising and detecting anomalies.
• Present and communicate data-driven findings and recommendations clearly to stakeholders and management.
• Evaluate and improve internal analytical and machine learning tools.
• Identify, select and develop suitable AI or machine learning models for a range of problems and business principles.
• Work with end users, data engineers and project managers on planning, development, scaling and delivery of solutions.

Required profile

• Applicants with no experience may apply; only Singaporeans need apply.
• Curious, self-motivated, resourceful and meticulous, enjoying challenges.
• Passionate about data analytics, data mining, logic and problem solving.
• Excellent understanding of mathematical, statistical and analytical concepts and their application.
• Interest in keeping up with new developments in data mining, machine learning and data analytics algorithms, tools and methods.
• Able to balance project objectives with technical detail.

Required skills

• Advantageous: statistical, analytical or numerical computing tools (e.g. R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Matlab).
• Advantageous: programming or scripting (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Scala).
• Advantageous: visual analytics tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, D3).
• Advantageous: machine learning and modelling (predictive analytics, natural language processing).
• Advantageous: databases and querying languages (SQL, Pig, Hive, SparkQL) and big data systems (Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, MapReduce).