Senior Data Analyst

About the role

Aylien is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to join its product team to work on the News API product. The product is backed by a dataset that contains hundreds of millions of news articles and is continuously updated. The role requires working with this dataset to enhance the value that it represents to users. 

Responsibilities

  • Understanding the composition of Aylien’s news datasets.
  • Identifying opportunities to improve the quality of ingested news content and as well as enrichments performed by a range of ML models
  • Understanding the queries issued by Aylien’s users against its dataset
  • Identifying opportunities to improve the quality of results returned in response to queries.
  • Framing issues/opportunities discovered to enable the Data Science and Engineering teams to make improvements.
  • Validating new features introduced by Data Science & Engineering with respect to its impact on the dataset.
  • Work alongside Product to engage with important Aylien customers and determine how Aylien’s products can help address their needs
  • Develop simple ML models (such as classifiers) to support the needs of the product as well as some customer-specific projects.

Requirements

  • A passion for working with data matched by intellectual curiosity.
  • Ability to independently identify problems, develop solutions and collaborate with others to resolve them.
  • A minimum of 3+ years in assembling, manipulating and interrogating large datasets
  • Strong programming skills with extensive experience in working with one or more scripting languages and associated data manipulation libraries
  • Experience working with relational as well as BigData/NoSql stores. Exposure to search engines such as ElasticSearch.
  • Exposure to data analysis tools including spreadsheets, Tableau or other BI tools.
  • Familiarity with model evaluation along with some experience with building simple ML models 
  • Familiarity with working on textual content would be a plus

About AYLIEN

AYLIEN is a content intelligence company based in Dublin, Ireland. We make it easy for companies like Sony and Microsoft to not only collect but truly understand large volumes of human-generated (unstructured) content on the web using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. Our News APIs enable developers and data scientists to extract key business insights from massive amounts of content with extreme ease.

You can learn more about AYLIEN and our products here.


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