Data Scientist - Department Store Chain

Sears is building a new team of Data Scientists where they require around 6 people with an Experience in Data Science between 4-10 years. In this role, the Data Scientist will be part of the analytics team.

Skills

- Passion for understanding business problems and trying to address them by leveraging data - characterized by high-volume, high dimensionality from multiple sources

- Ability to communicate complex models and analysis in a clear and precise manner

- Experience with building predictive statistical, behavioural or other models via supervised and unsupervised machine learning, statistical analysis, and other predictive modelling techniques.

- Experience using R, SAS, Matlab or equivalent statistical/data analysis tools. Ability to transfer that knowledge to different tools

- Experience with matrices, distributions and probability

- Familiarity with at least one scripting language - Python/Ruby

- Proficiency with relational databases and SQL

- Natural language processing experience is a plus

- Experience with Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive etc. is a plus

- Experience with NoSQL stores is a plus

Responsibilities

- Has worked in a big data environment before alongside a big data engineering team (and data visualization team, data and business analysts)

- Translate client's business requirements into a set of analytical models

- Perform data analysis (with a representative sample data slice) and build/prototype the model(s)

- Work with the client's business users and/or data scientists to define and close on the model design

- Provide inputs to the data ingestion/engineering team on input data required by the model, size, format, associations, cleansing required

- Identify/Provide approach and data to validate the model(s)

- Collaborate with a technology/data engineering team to transfer the business understanding, get the model productionized and validate the output along with business users

- Tune the model(s) to improve results provided over time

- Understand business challenges and goals of a client to formulate the approach for data analysis and model creation that will support their business decision making

- Do hands-on data analysis and model creation and proactively mentor other team members

- Work in highly collaborative teams that strive to build quality systems and provide business value

- Work closely with clients, both in the Business Domain and with Technical staff members

- Have the opportunity to work in a number of different domains in a variety of different client environments

- Continually learn, mentor and develop your career

About the Company

website: http://www.sears.com

Sears is one of American's largest chain of department stores selling mainly top brands to the USA middle and upper class. The company is 130 years old, registered on the stock exchange. It is the fifth-largest American department store company by sales as of October 2013.

Sears is a leading integrated retailer with over 2,600 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. Sears Holdings is the leading home appliance retailer as well as a leader in tools, lawn and garden, fitness equipment and automotive repair and maintenance. They are the nation's largest provider of home services, with more than 15 million service and installation calls made annually and have a long-established commitment to those who serve in the military through initiatives like the Heroes at Home program. In 2011, Sears has been named - Mobile Retailer of the Year-, Recipient of the 2012 ENERGY STAR- 'Corporate Commitment Award' for Product Retailing and Energy Management and one of the Top 20 Best Places to Work for Recent Grads.

Sears is a $27 billion retailer with 196,000 employees across 970 Kmart stores and 715 Sears stores.

Regarding the technology team, the core tech team is still located in the USA. However, many of the core tech activities have been outsourced to India. Sears entered India in 2009 by setting up its first tech center in Pune. The center is mainly into support and maintenance of the Sears platform and is more services oriented. The Pune center has more than 1,000 engineers.

The Sears second technology center in India was set up in Bangalore in September 2015. It is headed by MD Alok Kumar, who is also heading Sears's first development center in Pune. The Bangalore setup will focus on developing solutions for Omni-channel retail. The engineers in that center will work on the E-commerce platform and related solutions of Sears, where cutting edge technology will be deployed. Therefore, Sears is currently looking for the best of the best engineers to come and join the existing tech team.

Overall Sears Bangalore has already about 500 people.

Address:

Embassy Tech Village, 7th Floor, Tower 2, 2B, Near New Horizon College, Devarabisanahalli, Bangalore, India