Astrazeneca hiring data scientist

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job reference: R-032248

Role and Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a team of other data engineers and business subject matter experts to solve complex business problems using machine learning and statistics.
  • Recommend which approaches will be effective in various situations and will be able to implement these approaches independently without guidance.
  • Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources.
  • Analyze and interpret the results of product experiments.

Essential Skills and experience

  • Must have Direct Hands-on, 3 to 7 years of experience, building complex systems using any Statistical
  • Programming Language (R / Python / SAS)
  • Must have fundamental knowledge of Inferential Statistics
  • Should have worked on Predictive Modelling
  • Experience should include the following,
  • Multi-Dimensional Array Processing
  • Simulation & Optimization Techniques
  • Machine Learning Techniques (Supervised, Unsupervised)
  • Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Model Ensembling Techniques
  • Building Interactive Applications to demonstrate Data Science Use Cases
  • Prior experience in Healthcare Domain, is a plus
  • Experience using Big Data, is a plus. Exposure to SPARK is desirable
  • Should have Excellent Analytical, Problem Solving ability. Should be able to grasp new concepts quickly
  • Should be well familiar with Agile Project Management Methodology
  • Should have experience of managing multiple simultaneous projects
  • Should have played a team lead role
  • Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Should be a team player with open mind