Senior Data Scientist

As Sr Data Scientist, you will be responsible for a wide range of engagements listed below:

• Formulates complex problems into hypotheses and proofs of concept for testing. Socializes this with the rest of the team and guides them to deliver on it.

• Applies business acumen in analyses to extract meaningful and actionable information.

• Communicates complex ideas and insights effectively to stakeholders with various levels of technical experience.

• Leverages various analytical techniques, appropriate to solving the business problem at hand.

• Performs research for solutions and solves problems efficiently to overcome data analytics challenges.

• Engages in the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of data for various business contexts

• Understands good software development practices (versioning, peer reviews, refactoring, and pair programming), adapts them to the needs of the team and sets an example for others by following them.

• Creates and maintains technical documentation of the scientific experimentations performed, preferably in the CRISP-DM framework or like.

• Keeps up with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in the field of Data Science and Engineering. Shares this knowledge with the rest of the data science team.

• Does peer reviews of codes and approaches of fellow members of the data science team.

• Provides mentorship to junior data scientists in the team.

• Looks for improvements in data science delivery processes, actively seeks buy-in on the improvements from peers and managers, implements them in the team and monitors their adoption. Required Skills (Must have) Tech

• Advanced programming knowledge in Python and SQL.

• Advanced knowledge in Probability and Statistics, including hypothesis testing.

• Advanced knowledge in Practical Machine Learning and awareness of the key-pitfalls in the practice of machine learning and approaches to addressing them.

• Advanced knowledge of data visualization technologies like Tableau, and PowerBI, and comfortable using relevant libraries in Python like seaborn and matplotlib.

• Experienced in modern development tools and writing code collaboratively.

• Intermediate knowledge of Cloud technologies and experience in developing data science solutions in one or more cloud platforms.

• Experienced in modern development tools, writing code collaboratively and developing solutions on cloud platforms.

Non Tech :

• Ability to recognize and pursue pragmatic alternatives vis-à-vis a perfect solution, balancing priorities of time with potential business impact.

• Plan projects, break them down across individual data scientists in the team, track their performance and manage risks.

• Ability to storyboard an entire presentation to a non-technical audience.

• Ability to work independently to develop data science solutions, while also being able to work as part of a team to communicate findings and collaborate on solutions.

• Strong written skills. This is required for submitting technical papers, whitepapers, and developing project documentations.

• Technical leadership and mentorship to the community of data scientists in the organization.

Required Skills (Good to have) Tech

• Advanced knowledge in one or more areas besides Machine Learning – Operations Research, Natural Language Processing, Deep learning and its applications, Time Series forecasting at scale, Reinforcement Learning, Graph Machine Learning, Explainable Machine learning.

• Advanced understanding of Cloud technologies and experience of deploying applications on cloud.

Non Tech

• Ability to solution critical business problems into its component parts and match each such part with an appropriate technical approach.