GFT Technologies Vietnam

Overview of job

What do we do?

As a pioneer for digital transformation GFT develops sustainable solutions across new technologies – from cloud engineering and artificial intelligence to blockchain/DLT. With its deep technological expertise, strong partnerships, and comprehensive market know-how GFT offers advice to the financial and insurance sectors, as well as in the manufacturing industry. Through the intelligent use of IT solutions GFT increases productivity and creates added value for clients. Companies gain easy and safe access to scalable IT-applications and innovative business models.

Who are we?

Having started in Germany in 1987, GFT Technologies has grown to become a trusted Software Engineering and Consulting specialist for the international financial industry, counting many of the world’s largest and best-known Banks as our clients. We are an organization that empowers you to not only explore but raise your potential and seek out opportunities that add value. At GFT, diversity, equality, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive working environment for all communities is one of the main pillars of our diversity strategy, based on our core values and culture. We have been certified for 2022/23 as a ‘Great place to work’ in the APAC region. So, if you want to have the opportunity to work with an outstanding and progressive organization this position could be right for you.

We are seeking a newData Scientist to join our dream team with the responsibilities as below.

Role Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement actionable analytics and data science models with relevant stakeholders
• Run and execute those platforms:

         o By creating predictive models and machine-learning algorithms for marketing models

         o By building and maintaining the behavioural segmentation

         o. By delivering the dashboards and reports that make data actionable

• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Extending company's data with third party sources of information when needed
• Crunch, mine and analyse data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
• Use predictive modelling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, other business outcomes.
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
• Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
• Present information using data visualization techniques
• Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions.

HR benefits

• Competitive salary
• Salary band per level and employee benefits are reviewed once per year
• 13th month salary pro rata depending on the employee’s length of service (within a calender year), paid with the December salary
• Monthly lunch allowance: 700,000 VND/employee
• Parking: GFT covers the monthly parking fee for employee motorbikes
• Performance evaluation is once per year, for 2 purposes:
     > Performance bonus   > Salary increments

Talent retention policy (Retention bonus)

• 2-year anniversary = 0.5x monthly salary
• 3-year anniversary = 1x monthly salary
• 5-year anniversary = 2x monthly salary
• Paid with salary of month of anniversary.

Health care

• Private health insurance: including accident, outpatient, in-patient, maternity, and dental for all permanent employees who pass 2-month probation.
• Optical: expense claim for eyewear
• Annual health check-ups.

Vacation

• Maximum 18-day vacation leave/year (with the ability to carry over 05 days till 31st March of the following year)
• Adding one more annual leave day for each two-year anniversary.

Healthy lifestyle

• Sports and hobby clubs: company has an annual fund for fitness activities, which is allocated per month as team’s vote.
• Range of healthy snacks, tea, coffee, milk and beer on tap:
  > Tea, coffee and milk are available at pantry area – WeWork
  > Beer is available at pantry area – WeWork
  > Snack is available in GFT office.

Social

• Company townhall: each 6 weeks
• Monthly team lunch at restaurants
• Monthly team engagement activities: one activity per month
• CSR activities: as per company’s CSR guideline and practice
• Hackathon: once per year
• Onsite tour/training courses at other GFT offices and client’s destination overseas (where applicable).

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in manipulating data sets and building statistical models, ideally within a high growth start up or digital business.
• Possesses a Master's or PHD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative field.
• Expertise in working with Large Language Models, particularly GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) variants.
• Understanding of generative models, deep learning, and natural language processing techniques.
• Experience with a variety of machine learning techniques (supervised, unsupervised, anomaly detection, deep learning, NLP, RecSys etc) and understanding their real-world advantages / drawbacks.
• Proven experience as a Data Scientist with past history of successfully delivering end-to-end data science projects (business understanding, EDA, modelling, deployment, monitoring, etc).
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Experience using data science related languages/tools (Python, SQL, Spark etc) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
• Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Domo, Tableau, Data Studio)
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS and GCP etc)
• Have a passion for discovering solutions hidden in large data sets and working with stakeholders to improve business outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Experience in Agile ways of working and familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, Slack