Petrofac Hiring Data Scientist

Location: Chennai
Experience: 3+ Years
Skill: Knowledge for Data Scientist

Key Duties & Accountabilities

  • Partner with global operational teams and platform owners to help build a global data lake
  • Lead master data cleansing and improvement efforts; including automated and cost-effective solutions for processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
  • Leverage agile methods to rapidly develop and iterate impactful operational analytics in PowerBI
  • Partner with global operational teams to support Petrofac’s cultural shift of a metrics-based culture
  • Research and develop statistical learning models for data analysis
  • Collaborate with product management and engineering departments to understand company needs and devise possible solutions
  • Implement new statistical or other mathematical methodologies as needed for specific models or analysis
  • Optimise joint development efforts through appropriate database use and project design
  • Pioneer OT and edge analytical capabilities on our remote oil field assets
  • Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
  • Partner with operational leaders and our customers to deliver value-added analytics tools which can be monetised or used to augment commercial offerings

Knowledge & Qualifications :

  • Advanced studies in Data science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Maths or related field
  • Solid (5+ years’) practical experience with SAS, ETL, SQL, data processing, database programming, NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase or data analytics
  • Experience with programming languages such as Java/Python an asset
  • Strong project management skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities without losing momentum
  • Extensive background in data mining and statistical analysis
  • Able to understand various data structures and common methods in data transformation
  • Excellent pattern recognition and predictive modelling skills
  • Experience building and maintaining data lakes: including ETL skills in Talend / Informatica or related middleware
  • Strong focus on delivering outcomes our customers
  • Demonstrable skills in business partnership and influencing skill
  • Experience building or administering a global data lake
  • Defining, implementing, and maintaining a global data strategy
  • Experience building robust and impactful data visualisation solutions and gaining adoption
  • Data management:modelling, normalisation, cleaning, and maintenance
  • Experience with ETL tools