Axtria - Director - Data Science

POSITION: Sr. Manager /Associate Director/Director

LOCATION: Gurgaon/Noida/Bangalore/Pune/Hyderabad

JOB OBJECTIVE: Sr. Data Scientist with good hands-on experience of 10+ years in developing state of the art and scalable Machine Learning models and their operationalization, leveraging off-the-shelf workbench production.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Necessary Skills :

1. 10+ years of experience of model development using Python/PySpark libraries. Development on Databricks or Dataiku DSS (Data Science Studio) environment would be a plus

2. Strong experience on Spark with Scala/Python/Java

3. Strong proficiency in building/training/evaluating state of the art machine learning models and its deployment

4. Proficiency in Statistical and Probabilistic methods such as SVM, Decision-Trees, Bagging and Boosting Techniques, Clustering

5. Proficiency in Core NLP techniques like Text Classification, Named Entity Recognition (NER), Topic Modeling, Sentiment Analysis, etc. Understanding of Generative AI / Large Language Models / Transformers would be a plus

6. Hands on experience in Python data-science and math packages such as NumPy, Pandas, Sklearn, Seaborn, PyCaret, Matplotlib

7. Proficiency in Python and common Machine Learning frameworks (TensorFlow, NLTK, Stanford NLP, PyTorch, Ling Pipe, Caffe, Keras, SparkML and OpenAI etc.)

8. Experience of working in large teams and using collaboration tools like GIT, Jira and Confluence

9. Good understanding of any of the cloud platform - AWS, Azure or GCP

10. Understanding of Commercial Pharma landscape and Patient Data / Analytics would be a huge plus

11. Should have an attitude of willingness to learn, accepting the challenging environment and confidence in delivering the results within timelines. Should be inclined towards self motivation and self-driven to find solutions for problems.

12. Should be able to mentor and guide mid to large sized teams under him/her

- Logical Thinking - Able to think analytically, use a systematic and logical approach to analyze data, problems, and situations. Be able to notice and call out discrepancies and inconsistencies in information and materials.

- Business Development - Proven experience in contributing / leading business development initiatives through RFP/RFI responses, creating proposals and leading account mining opportunities

- Task Management - Should have experience in task management and be able to plan self and team's tasks. Should be able to proactively coarse-correct, basis the current priorities along with their tracking and progress report

- Communication - Able to convey ideas and information clearly and accurately across forums/team in written or verbal-

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA :

Education: B-Tech or BE in Computer Science / Computer Applications from Tier 1-2 college with 10+ years of proven experience in the field of Advanced Analytics or Machine Learning

OR

Master's degree in Machine Learning / Statistics / Econometrics, or related discipline from Tier 1-2 college with 10+ years of experience

Required Experience:

1. Real-world experience in implementing machine learning/statistical/econometric models/advanced algorithms (ideally, 10+ years of experience involving machine learning)

2. Breadth of machine learning domain knowledge

3. Experience in application of machine learning algorithms (classification, regression, deep learning, NLP, etc.)

4. Experience with a ML/data-centric programming language (such as Python, Scala, or R) and ML libraries (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, etc.)

5. Experience with Apache Hadoop / Spark (or equivalent cloud-computing/map-reduce framework)

Behavioral Competency:

- Excellent communication skills (must be able to interface with both technical and business leaders in the organization as well as the client)

- Strong analytical skills to solve and model complex business requirements

Desirable qualities:

- Customer Focus - Dedicated to meeting the expectations of internal and external clients.

- Problem Solving - Ability to use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions. Probes all fruitful sources for answers. Is excellent at honest analysis. Looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.

- Learning on the Fly - Learns quickly when facing new problems. A relentless and versatile learner.

- Drive for result - Able to set priorities; pursue tasks tenaciously and with a need to finish. Able to overcome setbacks which may occur along the way.