# [Data Scientist] Principal Data Scientist - SG

**Company**: Agoda
**Location**: Singapore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe.

The Data department, based in Bangkok, oversees all of Agoda’s data-related requirements. Our ultimate goal is to enable and increase the use of data in the company through creative approaches and the implementation of powerful resources such as operational and analytical databases, queue systems, BI tools, and data science technology.

As a Principal Data Scientist, you will:

- Identify and solve high-leverage problems across Agoda.

- Translate ambiguous problems into measurable objectives and technical solutions.

- Lead the design and deployment of ML, AI, and analytical solutions.

- Own solutions from problem definition and experimentation through production deployment, measurement, and iteration.

- Partner with cross-functional leaders to shape strategy and roadmaps.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the data-science community.

Requirements:

- Extensive hands-on experience in data science, machine learning, and statistics.

- Experience delivering production models with measurable customer or business impact.

- Strong Python and SQL skills; experience with large-scale data and ML platforms.

- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Have:

- Experience in online travel, e-commerce, search, ranking, recommendations, pricing, or personalization.

- Experience with production LLM or generative-AI systems.

- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Mathematics, or a related field.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- data science
- machine learning
- statistics

### Nice to have
- online travel
- e-commerce
- search
- ranking
- recommendations
- pricing
- personalization
- LLM
- generative-AI

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