Data Scientist

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Enza Zaden is becoming more data driven and we need you! We are a worldwide operating vegetable breeding company with a mission to breed new varieties to feed the world.

We are a leading breeding company. The breeding analytics team develops innovative applications for breeders and researchers. Our applications focus on quantitative genetics and statistics and are connected to our databases with all kinds of data like sensor data, DNA data, Digital Phenotyping data, and more. Our goal is to provide cutting-edge, web-based solutions that enhance the breeding process and drive scientific advancements.

What are you going to do?

As a Data Scientist, you will work in a team that supports our breeders by creating Data Science applications with mainly R/Shiny. Your job is to develop applications that translate complex questions from various crop teams into tangible results for breeding. Our Data Science application team works in an agile manner. We have developed a flexible and scalable Data Science platform based on open-source frameworks. Our platform uses massive amounts of phenotype data, genotype data, and environmental data gathered daily and stored in our Smart Data Platform. You and your team will create applications in the fields of vision, statistics, and genetics.

You will work in a team that includes other computer scientists, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and researchers. You will interact with data engineers working on our central data platform and collaborate with IT professionals to ensure algorithms can run at scale. Additionally, you will work with researchers and bioinformaticians who produce the genetic data that feeds your algorithms.

Your team reports to our Global Manager Data Insights & Data Innovations, with whom you are on a mission to make Enza Zaden the most data-savvy and data-driven breeding company in the world. The Enza Zaden culture encourages professional competencies. We have a flat organizational structure with short communication lines. Ideas are valued, and we work in multi-disciplinary project teams that allow us to learn from each other as much as possible.

Your power

We are looking for somebody who loves developing new Data Science applications to breed the best new varieties. You are responsible for creating business value by implementing Data Science and AI through our next-generation breeding platform. As such, you are interested in learning all about the domain of your stakeholders/customers. To boost your success rate, you start by assessing what success looks like. To get your solutions into production, you enjoy working with people from Breeding, Data Science Projects team, and Data Science AI team to develop and implement new methodologies and applications at scale in Breeding. You get energy from optimizing and tweaking your code to perfection.

You have

• A background in Computer Science

• Knowledge about breeding by profession or education is a preference

• A curious mindset and the willingness to learn about the latest developments in both data science and genetics

• Proficiency in R, Python, SQL

• Experience with Git is a preference

• Data Engineering capabilities is a preference

• A willingness to travel. To valorise data science, we believe in close collaboration with the breeding teams worldwide, focusing on The Netherlands and Spain.

What We Offer:

• A dynamic and collaborative work environment.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• The chance to work on innovative projects that make a real impact in the field of breeding and research

Our Power

At Enza Zaden, we want to make a difference, because tomorrow needs a difference. The purpose of our work? To offer everyone worldwide access to healthy and varied vegetables. Curious to learn more about our journey? Please enjoy the new Enza Zaden brand movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yxla_xDJ-I

Enza Zaden is a vegetable breeding company that develops vegetable varieties. And produces and sells its seeds all over the world. From the ambition of one man, we grew into a global family company with a shared passion for plants. That great passion is reflected in the vegetable varieties we develop and the seeds we produce.

All we do is driven by a clear and ambitious goal: to grant people anywhere in the world access to healthy, varied vegetables. How do we do it? By working shoulder-to-shoulder with our business partners. It is vital to understand their challenges, wishes, and needs. It keeps us sharp and inspired and enables us to develop exactly the right products for the right markets at the right time. We keep our minds open and our creativity flowing. Innovation is at the core of our business.

Would you like to know more about Enza Zaden as an employer? Then take a look at the Careers & Learning page or view our page on LinkedIn.

Contact

Nick van Dijk

Corporate Recruiter

+31 6 1544 5587

n.vandijk@enzazaden.nl