Location: Chennai
Experience: 2 – 3 years
Role: Data Scientist
Job Description:
>We are looking for an experienced senior data scientist who can help in building advanced analytics and cognitive/ AI solutions. He/ she must be an experienced hand on resource and must have experience in building solutions/ POC’s, Pre-sales activity and interact with Customer on 1-0-1 basis
Primary responsibilities – 80%
- Implements solutions to complex problems using Machine Learning and Optimization Algorithms
- Establishes customer-focused analytics capabilities through visioning, leadership, and mentoring
- Discovers opportunities to improve systems, processes and enterprises through data analytics
- Generates reports for decision-making using data visualization and data mining
- Leads innovation by applying data analysis skill sets to develop cutting edge solutions
- Establishes and maintains collaboration with other internal teams to apply cloud and edge-computing capabilities for the application of production and proprietary algorithms
- Reads and understands algorithms and other techniques from academic papers
Team Mentor – 20%
- Provide assistance to junior data science team members with issues needing technical expertise or complex systems and/ or programming knowledge. Provide on-the-job training for new or less experienced team members
- Provide technical training to external team members to foster stronger cross-departmental relations.
Required Skill Set:
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, engineering, computer science or related major plus a minimum of five (10) years of applicable experience in data analytics or a similar quantitative field
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to think creatively through the problem-solving process
- Ability to work on virtual teams with members around the globe
- Applicant must have experience coding Python, R, and other open source tools
- Desired to have experience with SAS or SPSS or other proprietary tools
- Must be able to process, clean and verify the integrity of raw data.
- Must have strong applied statistic skills such as understanding of probability distributions, statistical inference, and experimental design
- Must be able to lead the development of algorithms for complex systems for the purposes of understanding, prediction and optimization
- Must have knowledge in Machine Learning (Tree-based algorithms, Neural Networks, feature Selection Algorithms)
- Must have worked on Cognitive/ AI solutions
- Must have done pre-sales activity