# Lead Data Scientist - (Singapore Based)

**Company**: Agoda
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**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, with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

The Data department 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.

We are looking for ambitious and agile data scientists that would like to seize the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging productive machine learning and big data platforms worldwide, processing some 600B events every day and making some 5B predictions.

As part of the Data Science and Machine Learning (AI/ML) team you will be exposed to real-world challenges such as: dynamic pricing, predicting customer intents in real time, ranking search results to maximize lifetime value, classifying and deep learning content and personalization signals from unstructured data such as images and text, making personalized recommendations, innovating algorithm-supported promotions and products for supply partners, discovering insights from big data, and innovating the user experience.

In This Role, You’ll Get to

- Design, code, experiment and implement models and algorithms to maximize customer experience, supply side value, business outcomes, and infrastructure readiness.

- Mine a big data of hundreds of millions of customers and more than 600M daily user generated events, supplier and pricing data, and discover actionable insights to drive improvements and innovation.

- Work with developers and a variety of business owners to deliver daily results with the best quality.

- Research discover and harness new ideas that can make a difference.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

- 4+ years hands-on data science experience.

- Excellent understanding of AI/ML/DL and Statistics, as well as coding proficiency using related open source libraries and frameworks.

- Significant proficiency in SQL and languages like Python, PySpark and/or Scala.

- Can lead, work independently as well as play a key role in a team.

- Good communication and interpersonal skills for working in a multicultural work environment.

It’s Great if You Have

- PhD or MSc in Computer Science / Operations Research / Statistics or other quantitative fields.

- Experience in NLP, image processing and/or recommendation systems.

- Hands on experience in data engineering, working with big data framework like Spark/Hadoop.

- Experience in data science for e-commerce and/or OTA.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- PySpark
- Scala
- SQL
- AI
- ML
- DL
- Statistics

### Nice to have
- NLP
- image processing
- recommendation systems
- data engineering
- Spark
- Hadoop

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