Data Analyst/Data Scientist - IT

The Company :

We are a young, fast-growing AI company shaking up how work gets done across the modern enterprise. Every day, we help clients unlock opportunities for automation by using a variety of AI and advanced automation techniques to rapidly model manual work in the form of code. Our impact has already been felt across some of the most reputable Fortune 500 companies, who are consequently seeing major gains in efficiency, client satisfaction, and overall savings. It's an exciting experience to watch companies transform themselves rapidly with Soroco!

Based across the US, UK, and India, our team includes several PhDs and graduates from top-notch universities such as MIT, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, as well as top rankers/medallists from the IITs, and NITs. Senior leadership includes a former founder of a VC/hedge fund, a computer scientist from Harvard, and a former founder of a successful digital media firm. Our team has collectively published more than 100 papers in international journals and conferences and has been granted over 20 patents. Our board members include some of the most well-known entrepreneurs across the globe, and our early clients include some of the most innovative Fortune 100 companies.

The Team :

We build software products and undertake complex analysis for data-driven process discovery in assessing automation opportunities. Oftentimes, we regard our team as a startup within the company. You will be one of the early members in the team. We work on bleeding-edge AI technology : you will get to learn and work with various machine learning techniques.

Job Description :

We are looking to hire a Data Analyst (DA) who will work closely with the Business Development (BD) teams in the U.S. and India. DAs should have a knack for understanding business processes and have a deep-seated interest in learning innovative technologies. S/he will be primarily responsible for analyzing client business processes, to evaluate productivity, identifying opportunities for process automation and business process optimization.

Responsibilities:

- Take ownership in ETL processes from various data sources: manipulating, cleansing & processing data

- Develop an understanding of project objectives, and undertake complex analysis to accomplish them

- Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques to identify trends or patterns in data

- Brainstorm and perform root cause analysis to provide tips or suggestions to operations/management team

- Communicate effectively with client engagement and product engineering teams

- Prioritize work and multi-task in a fast-paced setting, be willing to take on new projects and be flexible

Expected Experience :

- University degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science, or equivalent.

- 0 - 3 years of work experience

Expected Skills :

- Ability to perform data manipulation, and modeling with complex data using SQL queries

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Excel; good knowledge of advanced Excel tools is a must

- Possess the skill to creatively solve analytical problems and propose solutions

- Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, R)

- Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Bonus Skills :

- Strong attention to detail and interested in learning almost anything!

- Strong capabilities and experience with programming in Python (Numpy & Pandas), NoSQL databases, or other statistical packages (Excel, R)

- Knowledge of machine learning techniques (clustering, classification, and sequencing, among others)