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Data Scientist

Wargaming is looking to bring in a Data Scientist to our Data Science team of seasoned researches and analysts. The ideal candidate will both help handle more analytical tasks and share their knowledge and experience with colleagues.

The team’s mission is to procure information from all sorts of sources, such as log files (describing players’ behavior both on the web and within a game, in particular), payment information, survey results, the analysis of forum and chat messages, and more. Next, the information is handed over to other specialists (game designers, developers, marketing specialists) that use it to improve the company’s product quality.

A variety of tasks coming from a variety of clients leaves no room for routine in our work: each new project is an interesting challenge.

What will you do?

• Devise predictive models to forecast players’ behavior (in-game activity changes, future purchases, interest in content, etc.) within the company’s projects
• Analyze data to describe the player lifecycle and reveal the ways new in-game opportunities and modes influence players
• Evolve issues raised by game designers, marketing specialists and the company’s other specialists into analytical studies and present their results to clients
• Draw up analytical reports in a fashion that is clear to business people
• Work out specifications for the created models for automation purposes

What are we looking for?

• A bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, statistics or data mining
• Experience dealing with structured and unstructured data
• Knowledge of probability theory and mathematical statistics
• Well-versed and experienced in cluster, discriminant and regression analysis, as well as other data mining and machine learning algorithms
• Experience creating predictive models using machine learning algorithms
• Experience coding in R or Python
• Advanced knowledge of SQL
• Intermediate of higher level of English

What will help you stand out?

• Experience preparing analytical reports both in English and Russian
• Experience dealing with big data
• Hands-on experience with Hadoop
• Experience coding in Spark
• Advanced data visualization skills
• Hands-on experience with business intelligence tools (Tableau, QlikView, etc.)
• Experience working with data analysis tools (SAS, SPSS, Statistica, and the like)
• Basic business analysis knowledge

About Wargaming

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. Delivering legendary games since 1998, Wargaming has grown to become one of the leaders in the free-to-play MMO gaming industry with 4500+ employees and more than 20 offices globally. Over 200 million players enjoy Wargaming’s titles across all major gaming platforms, including the massively popular World of Tanks and World of Warships.

Working in our company means always having interesting challenges and gaining valuable experience while working with top-class experts.

Take your place among our passionate and experienced team and bring out the best in yourself at Wargaming!

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