Manager - Data Science - Consulting Firm

Job Title/Designation:Data Science Manager, Gurgaon

Employment Type:

Full Time, Permanent

Job Description:

Position Overview:

This role will have the opportunity to influence how one of the leading organizational effectiveness firms uses data science to run a more efficient business, deliver more robust advice, develop new service offerings, and unlock hidden keys to leadership performance. continues to evolve its business, growing the value it brings to clients through the development of proprietary services and tools, and the use of emerging technologies.

Seeks a Data Scientist with a consultative, entrepreneurial style. The individual will focus on solving business problems with appropriate analytical solutions that have positive financial impact on the organization. The individual must be able to communicate technical concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff. A continuous learning orientation will aid in understanding and overcoming business challenges as well as discovering how to demonstrate new forms and sources of data to deliver actionable analytical insights.

Responsibilities :

- Responsibilities will focus on solution innovation and insights development, including:

- Building, maintaining and enhancing existing NLP analytics tools used in our delivery processes

- Working with our Consulting D&A Lead to innovate and deliver new tools (for use internally or externally) that enable data exploration and/or deliver new insights to our clients as part of our consulting solutions.

- Stay conversant in new analytic technologies, architectures and languages - where necessary - for storing, processing and manipulating data

- Develop a flair for the exploratory and experimental side of the role; required to tease out interesting and previously unknown insights in vast pools of data

- Work collaboratively with other members of the data and analytics, consulting and technology teams to support the development of deeper analytics capabilities across the business globally

Technical Skills:

Must Have:

- Proficient in analytical programming, including Python and SQL.

- Proficient understanding of natural language processing (NLP), including knowledge of pre-trained models (e.g., BERT, VADER, RoBERTa, etc.).

- Expertise in statistical analysis, including: Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Gradient Boosting, SVMs, Time Series, KMeans, Clustering).

- Experience building and deploying predictive models

- Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau, Qlikview or PowerBI, including some experience of server set-up.

- Focus on strategy, design and execution of data-centric business problems, and in the process create unique analytical solutions comprising Big Data management supported by advanced analytical techniques (e.g., R, machine learning, neural networks, A/B testing, etc)

Preferred:

- Knowledge of SQL Server or other relational database management systems.

- Proficiency in programming in R

- AWS, Azure or other cloud infrastructure experience preferable.

- Preferred experience with web-scrapping

Soft Skills:

- Curiosity and ability to learn

- Experience in taking a consulting approach to project delivery

- Experience of dealing with multiple stakeholders (internal and external) from both a technical and non-technical background and the ability to communicate effectively with each audience

- Creative problem-solving ability, working in ambiguous situations

- High degree of personal motivation and ability to self-manage

Experience: 10 to 15 years