Artificial Intelligence Specialist at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Artificial Intelligence Specialist

Location: Lagos

Job Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders to deeply understand their business needs and design AI solutions
• Build AI models from scratch and help product managers and stakeholders understand results.
• Manage rapid-prototyping efforts for AI solutions leveraging agile development techniques
• Set up and manage AI development and production infrastructure.
• Deploy AI models into production.
• Help AI product managers and business stakeholders understand the potential and limitations of AI when planning new products.
• Identifying, recommending, communicating, and implementing new tools, architectures and patterns based on business needs, while evaluating and improving upon existing architectures and solution designs
• Provide coaching to junior staff or less experienced team members to develop technical competence and administrative skills

Background:

• 3-5 years of experience in AI solution development and / or integration
• Experience leading development teams

General Skills:

• Good interpersonal skills and ability to present in front of a small audience
• Team spirit and problem-solving ability, ability to work independently
• A strong interest in leading edge technology, and in user experience/usability.
• A willingness to learn new (business & technical) skills and apply them to the business of our clients.
• Strong written and oral communications skills
• Project management skills - ability to manage across multiple and complex projects.
• Experience in leading teams to deliver AI solutions
• Understanding of business processes and business value drivers
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of AI Technology:
  • Machine/Deep Learning - machine learning algorithms and platforms, neural networks.
  • Language - Natural Language Processing, machine translation, language detection
  • Vision - computer vision, object recognition/tracking, face/gender/age/emotion recognition, OCR/handwriting recognition.
  • Sound - audio processing, Speech To Text, speech recognition, text to speech
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Aster, Spark
• Knowledge of cloud-based solutions such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure
• Experience with some of these programming and design techniques: C# / C++, Java, Python, Scala, RESTful web services, design patterns, data exchange technologies like JSON.
• Demonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages with a strong foundation in a statistical platform such as Python / R.
• Experience building AI models in platforms such as Keras, TensorFlow, or Theano.

Application Closing Date
30th July, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV, current and expected salary to: [email protected] , [email protected] and [email protected] using the "Job title" as subject of the email.