Principal I

15 - 25 Years
- 2 Openings
- Trivandrum

**Role description**:

- UST is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join our Data & Analytics team.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Drive client engagement fully and align the development team towards a technical roadmap.
- Implement analytical requirements by defining and analysing system problems, designing and testing standards and solutions.
- Develop solution by preparing and evaluating alternative workflow solutions.
- Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.
- Design new analytical solutions by analysing requirements; constructing workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.
- Improve systems by studying current practices, designing modifications.
- Recommends controls by identifying problems, writing improved procedures.
- Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements; forming project team; establishing project budget.
- Monitor project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports; recommending actions.
- Maintain system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
- Provide references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation; providing help desk support; training users.
- Maintain user confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
- Prepare technical reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

**Required Skills and Experience**
- Professional experience of 10+ years in business analysis, requirement gathering, solution workflow design for AI/ML/Analytics project.
- Excellent problem solving, Critical and Analytical thinking skills and hands on coding skills.
- Proficient in Data fetch, data merge, data wrangling, exploratory data analysis and feature engineering.
- Experience in programming skills in Python and SQL with working knowledge of machine learning algorithms.
- Experience in Deep learning techniques.
- Excellent Communication skills to effectively collaborate with business SMEs, UX team.
- Intermediate knowledge with Dev Ops practices, including CICD, Automation, Build Management, and Versioning.
- Understanding of Cloud services, including Azure ML or AWS Sagemaker or GCP Vertex AI.
- Experience in LLM/Gen AI - Prompt Engineering, RAG and parameter hypertuning.
- Experience in Pyspark will be an added advantage.

**Skills**:
MS Azure,Azure Cloud,Azure Data Factory,Data Scientist

**About UST**:
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.