At Intellect, we are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Data Analytics Lead to lead our dynamic data team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing strategic direction, overseeing day-to-day operations, and driving insights from data to support business objectives. As a key leader within the organization, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, optimise processes, and drive data-driven decision-making.

This is a hands-on role where you will have the opportunity to build the foremost mental health solution in the region. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data science, leadership experience, and a proven track record of leveraging advanced analytics to solve complex business challenges.

They will have a solid understanding of software development life-cycle and engineering practices, experience developing production ML systems, experience working on a range of recommendation and optimisation problems, experience applying reinforcement learning (or control theory), experience working with real-time streaming data.

• Assume ownership of the data teams, bringing together the data engineering, audience, and data governance team.
• Evolve our data strategy and evangelise the use of data for decision making to achieve key business outcomes.
• Help to develop and enforce guidelines for the collection, storage, management, documentation, quality, and protection of data.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of the company’s data lake and make use of existing data assets to generate business insights, visualise information, and solve problems.
• Identify opportunities to enrich data by supplementing or fusing it with data from partnerships or other external sources.
• Take a proactive approach to help business heads seek out new revenue opportunities (increase readership, subscriptions, advertisement and new services) through more effective and creative use of data.
• Drive experimental data modelling designs within the business. Run A/B tests in order to evaluate changes in the business’s products and services.
• Track business performance against data analysis models and monitor trends in key business KPIs, providing valuable insights to relevant departments for overall business performance improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in data analytics, with 3+ years in a managerial or leadership role.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and languages such as SQL, Python, R, and Tableau.
• Strong understanding of statistical methods, machine learning techniques, and data visualisation principles.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively present complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven track record of driving results and delivering business value through data-driven insights and initiatives.
• Strong leadership and team-building skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a diverse team of professionals.

Benefits

• Work in a diverse environment with people from over 10 countries
• A generous leave policy
• Work flexibility
• Medical coverage
• Annual Wage Supplement (Bonus)
• Christmas Leave (The team takes the whole Christmas week off separate from our leave policy)
• Birthday Leave (1 day)
• Holidays off
• Quarterly mental health day off
• Mental health benefits (Premium access to our app and unlimited coaching sessions!)
• Work-life balance and employee wellness
• Regular social events where we have non work-related fun