Data Science & Activation Specialist (M/F)

About Fifty-five

Fifty-five is a unique data company assisting brands in their transformation journey through data and AI. We enhance their marketing operations via our specialized consultancy and technology services.

Acting as the strategic data element of The Brandtech Group, we provide a range of services that blend strategy consulting, cloud services, media consulting, and customer experience.

Our team comprises more than 400 digital professionals. Digital consultants, tracking and media specialists, engineers and data scientists closely collaborate to deliver high-tier marketing consultancy and technical support to clients in various industries worldwide.

We partner with advertisers, facilitating data collection, activation, and exploitation. Our goal is to help organizations become truly omnichannel entities that optimize their digital ecosystem's efficiency in synergy with the physical world.

With our headquarters in Paris, we operate across three time zones from our ten offices located in Paris, London, Geneva, Milan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Taipei, Singapore, and New York. Fifty-five prioritizes its employees' well-being, contributing to our recognition in the Best Workplaces France ranking in 2018.

About the Data Science & Activation Team

Our Data-Science and Activation Team (DS&A) functions at the intersection of business, infrastructure, and data science fields. The team translates business needs into technical solutions involving data science, engineering or both, ensuring the best practices are maintained throughout the process. The team oversees the data value chain's integrity, handles technical specifications, builds scalability out of data science models, and assures the outputs' actionability.

Who You Are

You are an ambitious individual, passionate about using data processing and machine learning to address complex business challenges. You are keen on creating and developing scalable data solutions from collection to insight generation.

Generating business insights from data demands more than an intricate ML algorithm. You have comprehensive knowledge of data solutions, which includes collection, processing, modeling, and activation. Your track record demonstrates your capacity to design and build pragmatic solutions, maintaining an eye for the bigger picture to drive projects towards feasible business outcomes. You have some understanding of cloud-related services and show interest in achieving repeatability and scalability.

As a data science and activation specialist, you'll work closely with our consulting team to find the optimal solution for our client's needs. You'll crucially aid our data science team in producing functional models through ensuring input data quality, scalability of production, and the actionability of results.

What You'll Work On

• Develop, test, and deploy data processing pipelines for fueling machine learning models, transforming raw data into business-friendly datasets that are both query-able and easily interpreted by our data scientists. You'll reconcile data from various sources to generate specific features.
• Assist the analytics team in learning and onboarding technical topics and SQL.
• Collaborate closely with consultants and the engineering team to comprehend and translate business needs into technical requirements. You'll use this understanding to identify requirements and design an adapted architecture.
• Support the development of machine learning algorithms and their scaled implementation in a cloud environment
• Ensure best engineering practices are applied company-wide (version control, quality assurance, data & model monitoring, continuous integration). Document project implementations, review technical specifications, and ensure they are properly maintained over time.

How You'll Work

We believe that the delivery quality is determined by the approach used. In this position, your personal skills and abilities should align with the following competencies:

• Pragmatic approach: Design technical projects with a business perspective and a critical eye. Question the needs and recommend what you think is the best fit for the requirements. There should be a balance between technical optimization and business pragmatism
• Scalability: Foster and highlight best practices to improve quality and accurate planning. We value scalable solutions and deliverables that we can be proud of.
• Teamwork and communication: The rapidly evolving tech environment demands dedicated contribution to communal knowledge creation.
• Knowledge and skills plasticity: Explore new frameworks, contribute to R&D projects. This helps in proactive learning and application of specific domain knowledge to continually enhance and improve your skills

Requirements

• Fluent in French
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, BigQuery, and Git
• Knowledge of dbt, VertexAI, Google Cloud APIs is a plus
• Understanding of data analytics, data processing and statistics
• Prior experience in marketing analytics domain is a plus

Benefits

• Joining a multicultural, dynamic, and fast-growing team
• Continuous (and certified) training on the digital ecosystem and technologies, which begins with initial training for new employees and continues with recurring sessions.
• Private healthcare coverage through AXA
• 50% refund on transportation costs
• Flexibility to work remotely part of the week
• Daily restaurant vouchers worth €10
• 25 days of annual leave in addition to UK bank and public holidays
• Engage in company-sponsored sporting and social activities
• The opportunity to participate in internal projects such as the Data Hive (tech for good initiative), or specific communities with focus on sustainability, inclusion and diversity topics.