Chief Data Scientist - Travel Portal

Our client, a leading travel portal from India . We are looking for a chief Data Scientist, to help bring serious innovations in their business. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work on innovative projects with the goal of placing our Client on the leading edge of advanced analytics in the travel industry. Through access to detailed social media and digital data (among others), the optimal candidate will identify, develop and implement the appropriate statistical and data mining analysis to address business challenges across the organization, as well as provide actionable insights with a clear impact on ROI.

Responsibilities

- Work closely with senior leadership across different business units (Research, Marketing, Ad Sales, and Programming) to identify business needs and challenges that can be addressed through data-driven analytics

- Design and implement customized solutions based on advanced analytics using at least one of the following: SAS, R or Python.

- Solutions will include but will not be limited to: Optimized Media Planning, Audience Sizing and Opportunities, Marketing Campaign Conversion and Tracking Analysis, Program Affinity Mapping, Optimized Audience Targeting and Digital Marketing Campaigns, Audience Segmentation, Hyper Targeted Segmentation

- Identify new source of raw data and facilitate access using techniques like Web-Scraping

- Work with brands and business units to ensure that all consumer and behavioral data is stored in a centralized enterprise repository using Amazon Web Services, Redshift and C3

- Design and maintain advanced data visualization dashboards in Tableau

- Create interactive tools using cutting-edge visualization techniques (beyond standard visualization like Tableau, Spotfire, Qlikview etc.)

- Interpret & translate analytic output into insights

Skills & Qualifications:

- PhD preferred, or Masters with 5+ years work experience in Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.

- Advanced knowledge of data mining, machine learning algorithms, text mining, data structures and performance optimization.

- Deep understanding of statistical modeling, parametric vs non-parametric methods.

- Hands-on experience in statistical computing software (R, MatLab, SPSS) and big data analytics tools (e.g. Hadoop, Mahout, Map-Reduce, Impala, etc), and NLP methods (OpenNLP, LingPipe)

- Experience with large scale social media data (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+, etc.)

- Bonus points for implementation of Big Data and/or Streaming data analytics or visualization

- Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills, and excellent communication skills to work collaboratively with colleagues and customers.

- Programming background and ability to prototype tools using at least one of the following languages: SAS, Python, R

- Working knowledge of SQL

- Programming experience working in a cloud environment

- An understanding of statistical output from procedures like clustering, machine-learning algorithms, regression modeling, etc.

- Passion for - big data- and the ability to work with statisticians & marketing strategists in parallel

- Strong influence and relationship management skills; comfortable interacting with all management levels; Prior experience in providing strategic analysis and consulting

- Track record of delivering strong business results

Location : Gurgaon

Salary Range : 50L to 60L p.a.