Data Scientist (Development) (m/f) x2

Job description

Country: Germany
Job Function: Information Technology

State / Province: Germany
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Herzogenaurach
Brand: adidas

Relocation: Yes

At adidas Group, our love of sport drives who we are and what we do. But just as a ball is more than leather and thread, and a shoe more than padding and plastic, we are bigger than our products. We don’t just work to create faster shoes and lighter fabrics: We strive to help athletes everywhere perform their best. We believe that it’s hard work inventing the future of sport, and that’s why we love it; that when you push your limits, you make it possible for others to push theirs.

At adidas Group, this drive it what connects us, whether we’re working for TaylorMade, adidas, Reebok, or Rockport. We’re all working toward a future motivated by passion, original thinking, and the desire to build upon a proud legacy.

You are passionate about data and algorithms? You are keen to lift the insights hidden in large data sets? You are excited about working on a variety of use cases, from supply chain optimization to product recommendations, from pricing to allocation? You want customers, managers, business analysts –everyone – to benefit from their data and drive their strategic and day-to-day decision making? You are curious to see how neural networks help selling football shoes and eager to test whether other methods work even better?

Then let’s talk.

Joining the adidas Data Analytics team, you will be able to live up to your passion. You will be part of a collaborative team that is as curious and engaged as you are, that builds state-of-the-art analytic applications, that drives the data strategy of the adidas group, that is given a large playground of cutting edge big data technologies, and that simply has fun withdata.

YOU WOULD LIKE TO...

· engage with internal business partners to understand their challenges and define how data analytics can help improve their business
· solve business cases with advanced analytical methods identifying the right data and algorithms
· develop prototypes and bring your solution to life in a production environment teaming up with software engineers
· demonstrate the value of your solution by measuring performance and communicating its benefits to all stakeholders
· strive to continuously enrich our applications by improving model performance but also by deriving business recommendations from your data insights
· be creative in exploring and mining data to generate insights, discover connections and innovate new business cases
· keep track of evolving technologies and methods that create new business cases or new solutions

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

· Master or Ph.D. in computer science, statistics, operations research, engineering or related field
· Theoretical knowledge and 2+ years hands-on experience in data mining, optimization, machine learning, NLP, image processing, intelligent agents or other specializations of Artificial Intelligence
· Proficiency with SQL, R and/or Python
· Experience in programming languages like Java, C++ or Scala
· Preferably experience in developing, deploying and running analytics applications
· a collaborative team player who communicates effectively with colleagues from technical and business areas