Analytics

Data Engineer

Job ID: 95641
  • Tokyo
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Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.

Your Impact

You will work on real-world, high-impact projects across a variety of industries; you will have the opportunity to collaborate with QB/Labs teams and build complex and innovative ML systems to accelerate our work in AI – and help solve business problems at speed and scale.  
You will experience the best environment to grow as a technologist and a leader; You will develop a sought-after perspective connecting technology and business value by working on real-life problems across a variety of industries and technical challenges to serve our clients on their changing needs.
You will be surrounded by inspiring individuals as part of diverse and multidisciplinary teams; You will develop a holistic perspective of AI by partnering with the best design, technical, and business talent in the world as your team members.
As a Data Engineer I, you’ll:
  • Help to build and maintain the technical platform for advanced analytics engagements, spanning data science and data engineering work
  • Design and build data pipelines for machine learning that are robust, modular, scalable, deployable, reproducible, and versioned
  • Create and manage data environments and ensure information security standards are maintained at all times
  • Understand clients data landscape and assess data quality
  • Map data fields to hypotheses and curate, wrangle, and prepare data for use in advanced analytics models
  • Have the opportunity to contribute to R&D projects and internal asset development
  • Contribute to cross-functional problem-solving sessions with your team and our clients, from data owners and users to C-level executives, to address their needs and build impactful analytics solutions

Your Growth

You will be part of our global Data Engineering community and you will work in cross-functional Agile project teams alongside Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, other Data Engineers, Project Managers, and industry experts. 
You will work hand-in-hand with our clients, from data owners, users, and fellow engineers to C-level executives. 
Who you are: You are a highly collaborative individual who wants to solve problems that drive business value. You have a strong sense of ownership and enjoy hands-on technical work. Our values resonate with yours. 

Your qualifications and skills

  • Ability to write clean and maintainable code in an object-oriented language, e.g., Python, Scala, Java
  • Experience building data pipelines in a professional setting (for example, internship) would be considered a plus
  • Familiarity with analytics libraries (e.g. pandas, numpy, matplotlib), distributed computing frameworks (e.g. Spark, Dask), and cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Exposure to software engineering concepts and best practices, inc. DevOps, DataOps and MLOps will be beneficial
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
  • Fluent in Japanese (JLPT N1) and business level English






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