Data Scientist

Data ScientistLocation: Houston, TXContract RolePay Rate: $52/hr on w2 all inclusiveEnd Client: Shell Oil CompanyJob Title: Data ScientistJob Description:Here's a role where you can bring your passion for data and technical expertise to a highly collaborative team, helping us analyze how we do business with our customers. With every opportunity to work with innovative technologies and learn new professional skills.What's the role?As Data Scientist, you'll be providing solutions to customer-centric business challenges, driving insights that will have an impact on our business performance. An exciting chance to employ your data science expertise and creative problem-solving skills to real-world customer problems.Your challenge will be to translate a business question into a data science solution, using your experience in customer analytics to help us understand customer behavior, where customers are both businesses as well as consumers.In practice that means you'll be writing production-level code, working with Python, GIT, Azure, and SQL and regularly integrating models into production. Alongside your technical expertise, you'll also call on your excellent people skills, nurturing mutual trust with a diverse range of stakeholders. Whilst your strong oral and written communication skills will see you effectively translating analysis and modeling findings into language that can be easily understood by both a technical and non-technical audience.You'll be a part of Our Data Science Centre of Excellence, which supports all businesses in Shell with data science solutions. With a focus on developing Shell's customer-centric digital strategy. We expect you'll thrive working independently or part of a team, fitting into a highly-collaborative, friendly Agile environment, with the opportunity to learn new practices and technologies.Requirements:We're keen to hear from men and women with a Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a similar discipline.Along with extensive experience working on data science projects.Beyond that, you'll need as many of the following as possible on your CV:Hands-on experience in developing machine learning/AI based applications, preferably, in O&G industryProficient in Python and Plotly programmingImage Processing skills is preferred: uniformity/structure in 1D data and 2D dataExperience in developing robust deep learning algorithms (RNN, LSTM, VAEs, CNNs, GANs etc.) and methods for time-series, image classification, image analysis, image classification, and semantic segmentation problems is strongly preferred.Natural language processing, documents processing experience is a plusGood analytical and programming skills with strong math or, statistics, engineering, physics background is preferredSkilled in high standards of code quality and making use of version control tools.Proficiency in Python, and experience in using frameworks like Tensorflow, and Keras is must.Awareness of developing solutions on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Databricks is beneficialParallel computing hands-on experienceSelf-motivated and proactive in team collaboration with good communication skillsOil and Gas background only- Local candidates preferred