John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) is Sri Lanka’s largest listed conglomerate in the Colombo Stock Exchange. From managing hotels and resorts in Sri Lanka and the Maldives to providing port, marine fuel and logistics services to IT solutions, manufacturing of food and beverages to running a chain of supermarkets, tea broking to stock broking, life insurance and banking to real estate, we have made our presence felt in virtually every major sphere of the economy.
Our business built over 150 years touches nearly every major sector of the economy. We generate a significant quantum of data, and we intend to use it to build the future of our businesses. Our Digital and Analytics insights can positively disrupt life for all Sri Lankans and our commitment to passion and excellence will help to deliver superior value to customers, our people, and the community.
OCTAVE is the cornerstone of our data-driven strategic and operational decisions!
Team OCTAVE solves JKH’s most intractable problems across industry verticals by building pipelines using Python and Azure data factory to work on one of the country’s richest data lakes, building and implementing complex machine learning algorithms that will impact millions of Sri Lankans.
Job Responsibilities:
- Conduct statistical analysis to provide actionable insights, identify trends, and measure performance
- Help Data Scientists build models using supervised/unsupervised learning techniques of varying complexity
- Understanding of data engineering techniques and concepts like pilot testing and execution is a good to have
- Collaborate with data scientists in building and delivering analytics models
- Communicate results to technical audience within an integrated analytics team
- Contribute to knowledge building and sharing by researching best practices, documenting solutions and continuously iterating on new ways to solve problems
Desired Skills / Competencies
Education + Technical skills / experience
- Undergraduate in Computer Science, Statistics, Math, Operations Research, Economics or a related field.
- Basic programming experience in 1 language.
- Theoretical knowledge of advanced analytics techniques.
- Experience in machine learning techniques preferred.
Mindset & Behavior
- High energy and passionate individual who can work closely with other team members.
- Excited about trying new solutions outside standard methodologies.
- Willing to adopt an iterative approach; experimental mindset to drive innovation.
