Data Scientist

Job Description & Summary:

At PwC, Senior Associate's will work as an integral part of business analytics teams in India alongside clients and consultants in the U.S., leading teams for high-end analytics consulting engagements and providing business recommendations to project teams.

Years of Experience: Candidates with 4+ plus years of hands on experience

Industry: CPG/Retail, Last Mile Delivery/ Logistics, Telecommunications-Media-Technology (TMT)

Must Have:

- Solid knowledge and experience of supervised, unsupervised machine learning algorithms. For e.g (but not limited to): linear regressions, bayesian regressions, multi objective optimization techniques, classifiers, cluster analysis, dimension reduction etc.

- Understanding of techniques like Market Mix Modelling, Price Elasticity models, Sales Promo Uplift Modelling, Vehicle Route Optimization

- Good knowledge of statistics For e.g: statistical tests & distributions

- Experience in Data analysis For e.g: data cleansing, standardization and data preparation for the machine learning use cases

- Experience in machine learning frameworks and tools (For e.g. scikit-learn, mlr, caret, H2O, TensorFlow, Pytorch, MLlib)

- Advanced level programming in SQL or Python/Pyspark

- Expertise with visualization tools For e.g: Tableau, PowerBI, AWS QuickSight etc.

Nice to have:

- Experience in building ML models in cloud environments (At least 1 of the 3: Azure ML, GCP's Vertex AI platform, AWS SageMaker)

- Working knowledge of containerization ( e.g. AWS EKS, Kubernetes), Dockers and data pipeline orchestration (e.g. Airflow)

- Good Communication and presentation skills

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute on project & analysis plans under the guidance of Project Manager

- Interact with and advise consultants/clients in US as a subject matter expert to formalize data sources to be used, datasets to be acquired, data & use case clarifications that are needed to get a strong hold on data and the business problem to be solved

- Drive and Conduct analysis using advanced analytics tools and coach the junior team members

- Implement necessary quality control measures in place to ensure the deliverable integrity

- Validate analysis outcomes, recommendations with all stakeholders including the client team

- Build storylines and make presentations to the client team and/or PwC project leadership team

- Contribute to the the knowledge and firm building activities

Required Skills:

- Bayesian Networks, Market Mix Modeling (MMM)

- Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified):

- Travel Requirements Not Specified

- Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?