Boston Consulting Group - Senior Analyst - Machine Learning/Deep Learning - GAMMA

CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE & ANALYTICS - JOB POSTING

Title : Senior Analyst - GAMMA

Team : Center for Knowledge & Analytics-India

Location : CKA India Office, Bengaluru

Reports to : Analytics Expert, Team Manager

Status : Regular, Full-Time (100% Role)

ABOUT BCG ADVANCED ANALYTICS TEAM :

The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their businesses.

Our customized approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets with close collaboration at all levels of the client organization. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. BCG is a private company with 80 offices in 43 countries.

BCG's Advanced Analytics team delivers powerful analytics-based insights designed to help our clients tackle their most pressing business problems. We partner with BCG case teams and practices across the full analytics value-chain: framing new business challenges, building fact- bases, designing innovative analytics workflows, training colleagues in new methodologies, and interpreting findings for our clients.

The Advanced Analytics team is a global resource, working with clients in every BCG region and in every industry area. It is a core member of a rapidly growing Analytics enterprise at BCG - a constellation of teams focused on driving practical results for BCG clients by bringing leading edge analytics approaches.

ROLE SUMMARY :

- We are seeking a strong candidate with advanced analytics experience to fill a Senior Knowledge Analyst (SKA) position within BCG's Advanced Analytics team. The role provides an opportunity to leverage analytics methodologies to deliver value to BCG's case teams through providing analytics subject matter expertise, and accelerated execution support.

- The position collaborates with case teams to gather requirements, specify, design, develop, deliver and support analytic solutions serving client needs. It provides technical support through providing deeper understanding of relevant data analytics solutions and processes to build high quality and efficient analytic solutions. Assignments will range from answering questions around statistical or analytical methods to working on advanced analytical cases for specified durations.

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES :

Rapid business requirement gathering and analysis :

- Work with the project stakeholders to identify business needs and gather requirements for data analysis or deployment of already existing advanced analytics solutions and BI tools

- Collaborate with project team members in writing prioritized business requirements documentation, including scope definition and statement of work

General requirements :

- Manages work module independently on projects with case teams, ensures execution and is responsible for overall quality

- Leads the communication and manages workflow to ensure case team satisfaction

- Reviews & assesses the relevancy of documents in existing topic/sector-related knowledge base

- Advises and shares knowledge with other Analysts

JOB REQUIREMENTS :

Education or Certifications :

- Bachelors or Master's degree or more in a field linked to business analytics, statistics, economics, operations research, applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, or related field is required.

Work Experience :

- At least 3 - 6 years of relevant industry work experience providing advanced analytics solutions in a commercial setting or around 1 - 2 years of consulting experience

- Proven experience in working and deploying ML / DL models in enterprise environment

Functional Skills :

- Should have hands on experience in advanced analytics delivery, through the entire life cycle of an analytics engagement

- Excellent communication and presentation skills

- Developing models, mentoring junior team members, building models as per standards, creating intermediate documents and getting the work approved with stakeholders as per plan

Technical Skills :

- Experience with multiple traditional machine learning and deep-learning methods (one or more required)

- Data management skills (e.g. data modeling, data integrity QA/QC)

- Predictive modeling (logistic regression, linear regression, etc.)

- Deep-learning techniques (CNN, RNN, etc.)

- Independently navigate through problem life cycle - defining business problem, feature engineering and extraction from large datasets, exploring right statistical or ML methods, presenting to business stakeholders, and working with IT to deploy the models

- Design, develop, validate and optimize ML kernels and Algorithms for Deep Learning accelerators

- Validation and benchmarking of kernels and algorithms for various topologies

- Familiarity with analytics tools and frameworks

- Python, Spark

- Deep-learning and ML frameworks like tensorflow, MXNet, etc. (one or more required)

- Structured and unstructured data handling

KEY COMPETENCIES :

- Solid analytical skills

- Strong work ethic and service-oriented mentality

- Proactive with a strong inclination towards analytics

- Ability to develop and codify knowledge

- Ability to provide analytical advice

- Ability to multi-task and operate effectively in a fast-paced matrix organization

- Effective written and verbal communication

- Strong interpersonal skills, credibility

- Collaborative, team player

- Ability to maintain discretion

WORK ENVIRONMENT :

- Fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment.

- Work related travel would be required.

- Position is located in Gurgaon, in the Center for Knowledge & Analytics.

BCG is an Equal Opportunity Employer