Data Scientist - Technology Solutions Team - Product Firm

We're looking for a Data Scientist to be part of a technology solutions team that works with businesses to deliver product and/or service breakthroughs via data.

Responsibilities:

- Build an in-depth understanding of the business domains and available data assets, and perform exploratory statistics on diverse datasets.

- Formulate approaches for data analysis and model creation that will facilitate decision making.

- Frame meaningful business scenarios and translate business requirements into a set of analytical models.

- Perform data analysis and build / prototype / validate the model(s).

- Collaborate with the engineering team to transfer the business understanding, productize the model and validate output with business users.

- Communicate findings and report progress to stakeholders on a regular basis. Use data visualization and summarization techniques for conveying key findings.

Qualification: Masters in Mathematics / Statistics / Computer science / Business Analytics / Operations Research.

Experience: 3 - 6 years experience working with R&D teams in the area of data science/machine learning.

Knowledge and Capabilities:

- Deep expertise in building models via supervised and unsupervised machine learning, statistical methods and analysis, and predictive modeling techniques.

- Proficiency in R, SAS, Matlab or equivalent statistical/data analysis tools.

- Hands-on experience in at least one scripting language e.g. Python. Knowhow of a programming language such as Java, C, C++ is beneficial.

- Experience with Big Data Platforms (Hadoop, Pig, Hive etc.) is a definite advantage.

- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving ability.

- Good interpersonal and (written/verbal) communication skills. Should be able to communicate a clear actionable story with data, to stakeholders at various levels.

- Passion for leveraging data to understand and solve business problems, and self-starter attitude.