ZS Associates - Data Science Associate

ZS is a professional services firm that works side by side with companies to help develop and deliver products that drive customer value and company results. From R&D to portfolio strategy, customer insights, marketing and sales strategy, operations and technology, we leverage our deep industry expertise and leading-edge analytics to create solutions that work in the real world. Our most asset is our people-a fact that's reflected in our values-driven organization in which new perspectives are integral and new ideas are celebrated. ZSers are passionately committed to helping companies and their customers thrive in industries ranging from healthcare and life sciences, to high-tech, financial services, travel and transportation, and beyond.

ZS's India Capability & Expertise Center (CEC) houses more than 60% of ZS people across three offices in New Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru. Our teams work with colleagues across North America, Europe and East Asia to create and deliver real world solutions to the clients who drive our business. The CEC maintains standards of analytical, operational and technological excellence across our capability groups. Together, our collective knowledge enables each ZS team to deliver superior results to our clients

ZS's Business Consulting group partners with clients to design and deliver solutions to help them tackle a broad range of business challenges. Our teams work on multiple projects simultaneously, leveraging advanced data analytics and problem-solving techniques. Our recommendations and solutions are based on rigorous research and analysis underpinned by deep expertise and thought leadership.

About Advanced Data Science (ADS):

ZS's Advanced Data Science group is focused on creating practical impact for clients across various industries such as Healthcare and Bio-Tech, Hi-Tech & Telecommunication, Financial Services and Travel through advanced analytics and emerging data sources. Emerging datasets include both unstructured datasets (for example, text, voice, image, etc.) and semi-structured datasets (for example, patient-level records). Advanced analytical techniques span a range of innovative machine learning, artificial intelligence, advanced statistics and optimization approaches.

Being part of the ADS group at ZS will be an opportunity for you to work on cutting-edge solutions, utilizing new age data sources to shape innovations across multiple areas, for our clients and the broader ZS community.

A key enabler of our services is leveraging data in delivering client solutions. The data available about customers is getting richer and the problems that our customers are trying to answer continue to evolve. In our endeavor to stay ahead in providing solutions to these evolving complex problems, ZS has set up an Advanced Data Science which has three major focus areas:

- Research the evolving datasets and advanced analytical techniques to develop new offerings/solutions

- Deliver client impact by collaboratively implementing these solutions

- Provide thought leadership by developing the ZS Point of View in this space

DATA SCIENCE ASSOCIATE

Data Science Associate (DSA) design, develop and execute high-impact analytics solutions for large, complex, structured and unstructured data sets (including big data) to help clients make better fact-based decisions.

Responsibilities:

- Develop advanced algorithms that solve problems of large dimensionality in a computationally efficient and statistically effective manner

- Execute statistical and data mining techniques (e.g. hypothesis testing, machine learning and retrieval processes) on large data sets to identify trends, figures and other relevant information

- Collaborate with clients and other ZS stakeholders to effectively integrate and communicate analysis findings

- Contribute to the evaluation of emerging datasets and technologies that may contribute to our analytical platform

- Evaluating emerging datasets and technologies that may contribute to our analytical platform

- Owning the development of select assets/accelerators for efficient scaling of capability, with a focus on leveraging generative AI and deep learning methodologies.

- Integrate engineering principles into data science workflows, optimizing algorithms for performance, scalability, and maintainability.

- Collaborate with the engineering team to implement and deploy data science solutions into production, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.

- Utilize software engineering best practices for version control, code review, testing, and documentation to maintain high-quality, reliable, and reproducible data science workflows.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or master's degree or PhD in Computer Science (or Statistics) from a premier institute, and strong academic performance with analytic and quantitative coursework is required.

- 1-3 years of Data Science experience, including proficiency in generative AI, deep learning, statistical techniques, and engineering integration for scalable solutions.

- Knowledge of programming (e.g. Java/Python/R);

- Knowledge of big data/advanced analytics concepts and algorithms (e.g. text mining, social listening, recommender systems, predictive modeling, etc.);

- Excellent oral and written communication skills.

- Strong attention to detail, with a research-focused mindset;

- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills;

- High motivation, good work ethic and maturity.

- Exposure to Generative AI and its usage to solve problems is a plus.

ZS is a global consulting firm; fluency in English is required, additional fluency in at least one European or Asian language is desirable.

ZS offers a competitive compensation package with salary and bonus incentives, plus an attractive benefits package