Data Scientist

**About us**: **Thoucentric is the Consulting arm of Xoriant**, a prominent digital engineering services company with 5000+ employees. We are headquartered in Bangalore with presence across multiple locations in India, US, UK, Singapore & Australia Globally. As the Consulting business of **Xoriant**, We help clients with Business Consulting, Program & Project Management, Digital Transformation, Product Management, Process & Technology Solutioning and Execution including Analytics & Emerging Tech areas cutting across functional areas such as Supply Chain, Finance & HR, Sales & Distribution across US, UK, Singapore and Australia. Our unique consulting framework allows us to focus on execution rather than pure advisory. We are working closely with marquee names in the global consumer & packaged goods (CPG) industry, new age tech and start-up ecosystem. Xoriant (Parent entity) started in 1990 and is a Sunnyvale, CA headquartered digital engineering firm with offices in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Xoriant is backed by ChrysCapital, a leading private equity firm. Our strengths are now combined with Xoriant’s capabilities in AI & Data, cloud, security and operations services proven for 30 years. We have been certified as "**Great Place to Work"** by AIM and have been ranked as "50 Best Firms for Data Scientists to Work For". We have an experienced consulting team of over 450+ world-class business and technology consultants based across six global locations, supporting clients through their expert insights, entrepreneurial approach and focus on delivery excellence. We have also built point solutions and products through Thoucentric labs using AI/ML in the supply chain space. **Desired Skill sets**: Python **At Thoucentric, we work on various problem statements.** - The most popular ones are - ** Building capabilities **that address a market need, **basis our ongoing research efforts** - ** Solving a specific use case **for a current or potential client **based on challenges on-ground** - ** Developing new systems **that help be a better employer and a better partner to clients - All of these need the **best of minds to work on them day-to-day**; and **we do exactly that** - Your **contribution to organization development is as important** as outward facing consulting. - **We are invested in both, employee growth and client success** **Role Summary** We are looking for Data Scientists to help us create innovative machine learning solutions. Data Scientist responsibilities include understanding the business problem and experimenting with different modelling architectures to create the best possible setup from model performance as well as computational performance. To do this job successfully, you need exceptional skills in Machine Learning and Programming. Your goal will be to find the best data-based solution for the problem at hand. - Understanding business objectives and formulating the problem as a Data Science problem - Design, train, and deliver Data Science solutions using all modalities (tabular, text, image) and of all sizes(small, or big data) - Develop and maintain robust data processing pipelines and reproducible modelling pipelines - Explore data and communicate insights clearly to non-technical as well as technical audiences - Analyze experimental results, iterate and refine models to create significant business impact. - Ability to guide and mentor junior Data Scientists on solution development **Requirements**: **Requirements**: - Bachelor’s Degree in a Quantitative discipline, preferably Computer Science - >3 years’ experience in data science/Analytics roles - Proven experience as a Data Scientist or similar role - Expert ability to write robust code in Python - Expert skill at manipulating data frames using Pandas and arrays using Numpy - Familiarity with standard machine learning libraries (like scikit-learn, StatsModels) - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - You take complete ownership of your work and are self-driven. **Good to Have** - Deep Learning Frameworks like Tensorflow, PyTorch etc. - Working knowledge of OpenCV - Completed Projects on Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing - Expert level proficiency in Multivariate Time Series Forecasting or Causal Forecasting - In-depth understanding of classical statistical forecasting algorithms like ARIMA, ETS, etc. as well as new age algorithms like N-Beats. - Proven experience is handling Time Series Forecasting using standard Regression algorithms like Linear Regression, Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, Random forest, etc. - Good practical knowledge with Sequence Models in Deep Learning, like LSTMs, Transformers, etc. especially in the context of Time Series Forecasting. - Proficiency with at least one Deep Learning Framework such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc **Benefits**: **What a Data Scientist Role at Thoucentric will offer you?** - Opportunity to define your career path and not as enforced by a manager