Data Scientist

A leading retail chain in Middle East is looking for an experienced and highly enthusiastic Data Scientist to join our team at our Bangalore location, India to support the Business and IT team based on various requirements. Data scientist turns raw data into valuable insights that the organization needs in order to grow and promote the business. You must have strong experience in interpreting and analyzing the data from multiple sources to come up with solutions to business problems.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Work with a team of high-performing Analytical professionals, IT Managers, Engineers & Business users to identify business opportunities and convert them into Analytical solutions.
- Analyzing large data sets, assimilate data from various sources, Data Extraction, Data Wrangling, Data Visualizing and performing operations / statistical analysis using various tools.
- Interprets and analyzes data using exploratory mathematic and statistical techniques based on the scientific method.
- Deep dive into an area, find insights and understand the root cause of an observed trend, and translate the insights into actionable recommendations influencing product roadmaps. Implement the solution and monitor the performance & impact.
- Craft compelling stories; make logical recommendations; drive informed actions.
- Explain complex problems to a variety of audience; Drive meetings and lead discussions.
- Perform ad-hoc analysis at a timely manner.
- Have responsibility for the organization’s data science strategy.
- Partner with senior team members to assess customer/Business needs and define business questions.
- Drive data-derived insights across the wide range of retail divisions by developing advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms and computational algorithms based on business initiatives
- Utilize Big Data Analytics and advanced Data Science techniques to identify trends, patterns, and discrepancies in data. Determine additional data needed to support insights
- Build and train statistical models and machine learning algorithms based on the business use cases.
- Communicate recommendations to business partners and influencing future plans based on insights.
- Utilize product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data science products after successful prototyping.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelors/ master’s degree in computer science, Engineering or relevant field, with Minimum 3 plus years of relevant experience as Data Scientist.
- Working experience in retail industry is mandatory.
- Any experience in creating and using advanced machine learning algorithms and statistics: GLM/ Regression, simulation, scenario analysis, modeling, clustering, decision trees & neural networks.
- Experience with Big Data Analytics - Identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data
- Any use case experience like Recommendation systems, Time Series Forecasting, Price elasticity and optimization, Data/Text Mining, NLP, LLM, Search Algorithms, Neural Networks and Deep Learning Algorithms.
- Strong programming and scripting skills (E.g.: - Python/R), Familiarity with Scala, Java is an asset.
- Experience using Business Intelligent tools (E.g.: - Power BI/ SAP SAC/ Tableau etc.)
- Strong Experience with Big Data platforms - Hadoop (Pig, Map Reduce, HQL, Scala, Spark)
- Experience with Hive, SQL and relational databases, data warehouse.
- Experience working with ETL tools (E.g.: - Pentaho, Talend, Sqoop, etc.)
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes along with the experience in ML model deployment is good to have.
- Strong business mindset and strong problem-solving skills
- Experience in Analyzing the Complex Problems and translate it into data science algorithms.
- Financial background or any financial use case experience is an advantage.
- Basic understanding of SAP Systems is preferred.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹650,000.00 - ₹2,400,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Data Scientist: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person

Expected Start Date: 02/01/2025