Xebia Hiring Data Scientist

Job Description 
As a data scientist in our team we expect you to lead engagements with our customers.

  • Identify potential opportunities in applying Data Mining methods & techniques to solve existing business problems
  • Highlight both risks & business benefits in using Data driven approaches
  • Put across a roadmap for customers & also highlight technology requirement
  • Define scope, effort & risks in project engagements & lead execution in small team
  • Actively consult, conduct pre-sales, develop POCs, patriciate incubation/accelerator/product programmes
  • Introduce and follow good development practices, innovative frameworks, and technology solutions that help business move faster.
    • >> Drive continuous improvement and innovation.
      >> Work with cross functional teams effectivel

What we look for in you?

  • Good knowledge of advanced statistical methods. Mine and analyze data, applying statistical methods as necessary, pertaining to customers’ discovery and viewing experiences to identify critical product insights.
  • Experience in creating statistical models and/or optimization frameworks for improving processes/products/profits
  • Should possess working knowledge of visualization concepts along with any one of the software like Tableau, Shiny, Spot fire or D3-JS
  • Knowledge in Text Mining, Semantic Web, elastic search, Amazon cloud, would be an added advantage.
  • Experience on Big Data implementation with Big data work flows – MapR, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Kafka, Spark, Sqoop, HDFS-Hive etc,
  • Translate analytic insights into concrete, actionable recommendations for business or product improvement.
  • Partner closely with business and engineering leaders throughout the lifecycle of project. Ensure that necessary data is captured; analytic needs are well-defined up front and coordinate the analytic needs.
  • Should have independently handled a project technically and provided directions to the other Team Members.
  • Able to persuade stakeholders and champion effective techniques through development.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills: ability to tell a clear, concise, actionable story with data, to folks across various levels of the company.
  • Demonstrating thought leadership and subject matter expertise in all relevant topics by coming up with papers, publications and Patents
  • Adapt communications and approaches to conclude technical scope discussions with various Partners, resulting In Common Agreements.
  • Experience working with tight deadlines
  • Have suitable qualifications and industry certifications

Skills we’re looking for

  • Expertise with one of the following scripting languages;
  • Python, R, Knime, Mat-lab, Java, Mat-lab/Octave
  • OpenNLP, WordNet, NLTK
  • Hadoop ecosystem, H2o, elastic search, spark
  • Tech savy and willing to work with open-Source Tools
  • Proven track record and experience with statistical modeling/data mining algorithms such as
  • Multivariate Regression, Logistic Regression, clustering algorithms, Support Vector Machines, Decision Trees etc
  • Machine learning, deep learning and graph mining.
  • DOE, Forecasting, Segmentation, Uncertainty Analysis etc.
  • Data Mining i.e. Text Mining, Classification Methods – SVM, NN, etc
  • Vector Space model for Unstructured Text
  • Sentiment Analysis, Association Mining
  • Human computer interaction – speech, voice, emotions, etc.

Experience: 8-10 years with 2+ years of MS or PhD

Multiple positions: banking domain, fintech, automotive, retail, e-commerce, airlines.

Location: Bangalore