Location: Chennai
Experience: 8-12 Years
Skill: Knowledge for Data Scientist
Job Description
ThoughtWorks India is looking for talented Data scientists passionate about building large scale Machine Learning Solutions to help manage the ever-growing information needs of our clients.
MS or equivalent in Applied mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or operations research background is a MUST. Minimum of 8 – 12 years of total experience and 5+ years as Data Scientist in real-time projects
- Passion for understanding business problems and trying to address them by leveraging data – characterized by high-volume, high dimensionality from multiple sources
- Ability to communicate complex models and analysis in a clear and precise manner
- Experience with building predictive statistical, behavioral or other models via supervised and unsupervised machine learning, statistical analysis, and other predictive modeling techniques.
- Experience using R, Python or equivalent statistical/data analysis tools. Ability to transfer that knowledge to different tools
- Experience with matrices, distributions and probability
- Proficiency with relational databases and NoSQL
- Experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning solution,, Neural Networks and Natural language processing.
- Experience with Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive etc. is a plus
- Experience in consulting skills
Responsibilities
- Has worked in a big data environment before alongside a big data engineering team (and data visualization team, data and business analysts)
- Translate client’s business requirements into a set of analytical models
- Perform data analysis (with a representative sample data slice) and build/prototype the model(s)
- Work with the client’s business users and/or data scientists to define and close on the model design
- Provide inputs to the data ingestion/engineering team on input data required by the model, size, format, associations, cleansing required
- Identify/Provide approach and data to validate the model(s)
- Collaborate with a technology/data engineering team to transfer the business understanding, get the model productionized and validate the output along with business users
- Tune the model(s) to improve results provided over time
- Understand business challenges and goals of a client to formulate the approach for data analysis and model creation that will support their business decision making
- Do hands-on data analysis and model creation and proactively mentor other team members
- Work in highly collaborative teams that strive to build quality systems and provide business value
- Work closely with clients, both in the Business Domain and with Technical staff members
- Have the opportunity to work in a number of different domains in a variety of different client environments
- Travel to work at client sites and other ThoughtWorks offices. This may include international travel
- Continually learn, mentor and develop your career
